Tom Stoppard Quotes

The audience plays a huge part in how a piece will actually form. They really allow the performers to walk a tightrope in a way that never seems to happen in the privacy of your own four walls. I'm listening to the audience, and they're listening to me.

It doesn't matter as long as there's interaction between me and the audience. That's why they come.

I went into performing for the community. Being backstage with your company of fellows is the best part of working in live theater. That energy, that combined focus, the synergy - it's addictive.

I always like to have some type of connection with the crowd.

Music - you need the give and take from the audience, the feeling of attention. It's not about me: it's about the music itself.

I love connecting with the audience, and there's more ways than one to do that.

One is, that they will feel about you that you're going to make something wonderful for them. And they help you by expressing themselves. Not telling you how to do it, but encouraging you and accepting your vision and working with you on that kind of a level.

I write things in my house, and hopefully there's a reader out there who enjoys it and has an experience with it, but that's very different than a performer on stage, where there's an immediate dance with the audience. It's incredibly powerful.

I've worked with a lot of really fine actors, both on stage and on screen. The level of their game lifts me up and brings the level of my game up to theirs. Always. It's like a constant upgrade.

What I have tried to do is involve the people I was photographing... if they were willing to give, I was willing to photograph.

If you don't get feedback from your performers and your audience, you're going to be working in a vacuum.

I like performing. I like partnering with an audience.

I view the whole thing as a collaboration. As an actor, I always found that to be the most freeing thing, when the director would collaborate with you, so that together you'd come up with something exponentially better.

The relationship between reader and writer is reciprocal in a way. We co-create each other. We are constantly emerging out of the relationship we have with others.

But I always communicate with the audience. I never pretend like I'm just in my bedroom making a track. The whole point of doing a gig is, like, a feedback thing between you and the audience.

You can't force something like that. But we have encouraged our audience, because we avoid the confrontation of regular rock concerts: us up here, you down there. Instead, we're looking for interaction.

I don't know if I ever really considered making a connection with the audience.

The relationship with a live audience seems to me to count for more.

I would love to do more on the stage; having actual contact with the audience is great. You can give them a good seeing to!

Acting with someone else, I can't tell how good they are because if I'm doing my job right, I'm just fully invested in everything that person's saying.

Anything can be done if you find friends to do it with. The lucky biographers find themselves drawn into a sort of friendship with their subject.

You need the audience to go on the ride with you. You can't just isolate them.

The relationship between the models and the musical performers is very important.

My collaborations tend to be pretty organic. It starts off with me being a fan first.

There's no particular method or course of action that I take in order to decide who I'm going to work with besides feeling complete and total respect and admiration for that artist.