John Nettles Quotes

I find that after a screening, people really want to come and tell you what they feel.

I am a stress buster. Because I knew what people react or think after watching me on screen and I love it.

How the audience as a collectivity feels about a movie is important.

They're reacting and that's wonderful. It's better than them sitting there doing nothing. I say make them react - do whatever's in your power to move the audience, and if that's where it is, and there where it is with America, sex and violence, then I say project it.

As long as I can make an audience feel something, I don't care whether it's a good thing or bad thing, just to feel something is important to me.

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

It's really funny because the same people who loved me as Stringer Bell were the same people that were watching 'Daddy's Little Girls' literally in tears.

I think the thing that is meaningful is when I can tell that someone's been affected by the movie or by anything I made.

Because of 'Wasn't Expecting That,' I've had a lot of people come up to me and say how I've written their lives or their grandparents' lives. It means the world to me that I helped in the tiniest way.

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.

Comedy is very controlling - you are making people laugh.

Theater audiences don't pull punches. They'll let you know when they're feeling ripped off.

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

The task is to influence and create a reaction in the audience. In my opinion, any reaction of a human being in the audience, I think this is great. It means we touched the person's soul.

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

It's almost going to sound like a jerk thing to say, but it's so easy to manipulate the fans to love us or hate us. It's fun. It makes it really fun.

Obviously, when you're working at things, you all hope that people will relate to it.

You either have to make people love you or you have to make them hate you, it doesn't really matter either way. If you can't bring that emotion out of your audience then you're not going to have them for long.

When I walk out of a movie that's actually good, I write emails to anybody I know who was involved with it.

I've kept evolving the character. At first, you hated Goldust with a passion, then you laughed with him.

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

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.

The feeling you get from playing to a good audience is hard to describe without sounding as though you are talking silly. But reaction is important. You might feel in yourself that you're doing it ok but it's when you get the live reaction that you know you're doing it right.

You listen to the audience. The audience is wrong individually and always right collectively. If they don't laugh, it isn't funny. If they cough, it isn't interesting. If they walk out, you are in trouble.