Brett Ratner Quotes

I feed off the audience a lot, their energy.

I'm obsessed with audiences and obsessed with the journey that an audience goes on.

I love storytelling and I love just relating directly to an audience. That's why we do theatre, it's because we love contact with the audience. We love the fact that the audience will change us. The way the audience responds makes us change our performance.

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

You know, we're not on stage, we're not doing a play, so we don't have a relationship with the audience but going through that process and also just hearing how much people love the film, you feel like you do have a relationship with the audience.

You can feel whether an audience is tightened up and pulled back. Of course the opposite is an audience like we've been having in LA, which is fabulous.

Your audience gives you everything you need. They tell you. There is no director who can direct you like an audience.

I love hearing my audience breathe.

You've got to keep your finger on the pulse of what your audience is thinking, and know what they'll accept from you.

It's nice to get the feedback from a theater audience. It's a gas.

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.

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.

In MMA, you're trained to tune the audience out. In sports entertainment, you're trained to feed off what the audience is thinking and feeling.

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.

The chemistry of a pair on screen is known only when the audience reacts to it.

I'm always interested in audience interaction. Not so much aggressive audience interaction - I'm genuinely interested in how people see things.

I just feed off the energy of the audience.

My theme song is always: 'Pay attention to your viewer. Follow them.'

I know two kinds of audiences only - one coughing, and one not coughing.

I like test screenings. I like to see a movie with an audience of strangers. I think it tells you a lot.

When you're onstage, you're acutely aware of the reaction of a particular group of people, because it's like a wave.