Shawn Spears Quotes

I still that that movie-goers like the experience of leaving their homes and going to have a communal experience, especially in comedies or interactive things where you can get an audience reaction to.

Theatrically seeing a movie with a group of people and having a collective experience has an authenticity that you can't get with your big screen television.

Audiences want and need a shared viewing experience.

Few things parallel the bonding that occurs post-performance when congratulatory remarks are awarded, regrets are confessed, and gossip is exchanged.

It is such a social thing, laughing. Two thousand people in a room laughing is such a great buzz and they tend to laugh much more in a group.

When you act, you take on the attitudes and the emotions of others. There has to be a release. Most often done in conviviality. That's why there are clubs like the Players, the Friars - in London, the Garrick.

That's the great things about games as social experiences. You play with all your friends across social groups. You see young girls as well as young boys playing. These are kids in school, people in offices, in pubs, all having fun together.

The crowd should be allowed to chant perhaps, or get some music playing.

The main difference to me with Lyft is the sense of community and social experience. The pink mustache, fist bump and strict screening have fostered a strong sense of community with many stories of new friends, discovered jobs, and even some Lyft hugs after a tough break up.

When you go to a football game and someone offers you a beer [...], they're really saying hi, have a glass of extroversion.

With the jam bands I've seen, it's about music, and it's about theory, and it's about making everyone feel better with music.

Where I'm from, you don't really travel outside your neighborhood unless you're traveling with a bunch of people.

Most of my enjoyable times in the theater have been working in a group.

Our ancient forebears who learned to synchronize the movements of dance were those with the capacity to predict what others around them were going to do and signal to others what they wanted to do next. These forms of communication may well have helped lead to the formation of larger human communities.

I think that it is important to mingle with your peers and get to know the people that you coming up with because everything that we're doing is history.

If a joke makes our tribe laugh, we assume it will make other friend-tribes laugh.

You learn a lot about human nature in a bar.

There's an energy and intimacy around a foosball table that nothing else compares to.

We interact with the crowd, turn it into a party.

I was always with the people.

When a lot of players come to a club, it can be difficult to gel because you don't know each other properly.

When you're 30, 40, 50 people and you're all in the room and that energy flows, that's sort of easy to maintain and I think we've learned to love that.

Music and dance have also always been a communal activity, something that everyone participated in. The thought of a musical concert in which a class of professionals performed for a quiet audience was virtually unknown throughout our species' history.

When the response to comedy becomes cheering instead of laughing, that is so irritating. It's the worst. Here's what cheering is: "Look at me!" That's what cheering is. Cheering is not "Hey, I agree with what you're saying"; cheering is "I'm liking this more than anybody else!"

Only in community with others has each individual the means of cultivating his gifts in all directions; only in the community, therefore, is personal freedom possible.