Tom Hooper Quotes

For me, there is nothing more valuable than how people feel in a movie theater about a movie.

As far as how much you listen to the audience, you listen to them when they really hate something.

I learn more from the audience than I can from anybody else. Not from what they write on the scorecards, but how they respond to the movie while they're watching it - where they laugh and where they react.

Only really good comedies and really good horror movies get a verbal response out of the audience. People will scream. People will laugh.

We like reactions - a reaction is walking out on us, a reaction is throwing tomatoes at the stage, that's a healthy psychological reaction.

When you put the musical in front of an audience, you get to see how the audience reacts.

I cry at movies.

On stage, we just want to generate hysteria. We don't care about looking cool or posing.

If someone gets up and walks out of the movie, it means it's really affected them.

I think that if an audience is truly appreciative of a performance, they will show it. Sometimes though, there are little differences, and there are audiences that are very reserved even though they are enjoying the show.

The film itself should interact with the audience. In the case of 'Queen of Katwe', people are laughing, sobbing and dancing. I am taking them on a ride... It is not like I am asking them for handouts.

Never underestimate the effect you can have on certain sections of the audience, though. You should see some of the letters I get.

I feed off the audience a lot, their energy.

In my experience, very few people walk out of a movie. You have them for two hours, and you're free to explain or not explain whatever you see fit.

I remember watching movies like 'Fatal Attraction' and watching the audience go bananas at the end of the film.

The audience is so important. Because there's something that I might think is super funny, but if it's just not getting the feedback, I have to let it go.

It's hard not to be affected by the live audience.

I see the audience as the final collaborator. I think it's kind of bullshit when people say, "I'm not interested in the audience reaction." I'm like, "Then why do you do theater? You can write a book, then you don't have to see how the audience reacts." It's a living, breathing thing.

I've never watched my films with an everyday audience so it was really crazy to watch people clap at the end of my film - with no one there, no actors, no people from the film. It was just a spontaneous reaction, so I thought that was probably the best compliment you could get from an audience.

The last collaborator is your audience ... when the audience comes in, it changes the temperature of what you've written. Things that seem to work well -- work in a sense of carry the story forward and be integral to the piece -- suddenly become a little less relevant or a little less functional or a little overlong or a little overweight or a little whatever. And so you start reshaping from an audience.

I don't want people leaving the theater depressed after my movies. I want them angry.

People have cried at a couple of shows. To think that someone could do that for me... Jesus Christ. That's a crazy sign.

With TV, you film something and have to wait six months to scrawl through Twitter to see what people think.

You can't control how an audience responds to something. It's up to them.

The crowd is the crowd. You're gonna take them as an individual performer how you take them. The key is how do you learn from them. How do you use whatever is happening reaction-wise to get better.