Liam Cunningham Quotes

Audiences like to be challenged and to be actively involved and try to guess an outcome.

I have to challenge the audience.

Once you understand that listeners want to be challenged, then you also understand that you can't take shortcuts.

I always rate a convention by the lack of blisters from twiddling my thumbs.

I don't get bored.

Thinking is the hardest work there is, which is probably the reason why so few engage in it.

When people feel they're getting to speak into what's being preached, there is high built-in motivation to participate.

I hate getting bored.

People are tired of simple things. They want to be challenged.

You've got to work. You've got to want an audience to sit forward in their chairs sometimes, rather than sit back and be bombarded with images.

If a listener nods his head when you're explaining your program, wake him up.

The audience is the camera. I don't want the audience to sit and watch, I want it to move.

I like a movie that the audience actively has to participate in and not just casually observe.

Participation, I think, or one of the best methods of educating.

I try to be of the world, rather than just observing it.

You've got to honor your relationship with your audience - that they sit down because they want to be entertained. And that doesn't mean you can't provoke them and antagonize them and challenge them in the course of the entertainment as long as you keep the entertainment part of the equation alive.

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

It is nice to be playing and involved.

We try to keep our audience involved. It is a show, but we want to make sure that everybody - us, them - has a good time.

I never want to tell a story where I'm lecturing to the audience.

Everybody knows that at a Freedia show, you're definitely going to have some crowd participation, and they're anticipating and waiting for that moment.

When I watch good friends play, it's almost worse when you're watching, because you have zero impact: you have zero hand in what's going on. When I'm playing, you don't have that because I'm involved in it. I have some kind of say in what's going on.

Thinking is the hardest work we can do, and among the most important

It is important to be involved in everything.

People love conversation, and movies are conversations, and an audience has to participate; it has to fill in some blanks.