Lindsay Mendez Quotes

Comedians like to see people smile. With acting, I love giving people a feeling, an emotion. I like to give people a feeling. When they come away from my scene, I want them to think.

For me, there is nothing more valuable than how people feel in a movie theater about a movie.

As you follow the escapades or the journey of the hero through a story, it evokes some kind of emotion in the viewers. The director's job is to make sure that the audience goes through the journey and has an emotional reaction.

It's very difficult to get an audience to be terrified of what's going on. Think about it: You're in a room with so many other people, so for them to be terrified and to care about what's going on on-screen takes a lot of work.

My most successful song was 'Language' and I think partly because it's a nice, dancey record, but I'll see people cry in the audience to that song, and that's so much more interesting to me than making someone just jump up and down.

Comedy is like horror - you have to shock something in the viewer's system to make them feel it.

With 'Hannibal,' I just really want people to feel something.

I think good entertainment makes you feel something... it can be a variety of different feelings.

You make a film you feel is as real as possible and hope people react as though it were real.

I prefer to make a film that people have a really intense reaction to than have a film that people feel ambivalent about.

For me, the great joy is to watch an audience watching what I've made. To hear not a peep from the audience at the right moment, and then to hear the laughs and the cheers.

I enjoy being on stage with other artists. I have a chance to watch and see people responding to the other artists songs. I get to see how people are affected by the music.

I think that the cinema is a physical thing. What I'm looking for is creating a physical shock with the audience. I don't care of the meaning. I don't care of the idea. I don't want to say something. I want to make a 'shock physique.'

My belief is that if I can achieve that level of entertainment by making the audience happy or sad or angry, then I have succeeded as an actor and have done my job. The profits and the fame as an actor will eventually surface, but first and foremost comes the work as an actor.

To me, it's never about the trick. I don't care about how something works. I care about how people feel when they watch it. You know, that - that connection - that emotional connection is true magic.

If someone gets up and walks out of the movie, it means it's really affected them.

I want you to laugh and cry. That's what I do.

My favorite movies are movies that I go in and I leave deeply affected. Whether I laugh really hard or whether I cry really hard, I just want to feel really affected in that moment.

We either carry our audience with us, or irritate them.

Comedy is harder, because if there's no laughs, it's pretty bad. But drama, if there's no reaction, you can say, 'Well, it's not their cup of tea. Maybe it's too heavy for the audience.'

I want to shake people up so bad, that when they leave a nightclub where I've performed, I just want them to be to pieces.

As an actress, I realize that viewers are entitled to have whatever feelings they want about the characters they watch.

The essence of comedy, drama, and horror is surprise. I have an uncanny ability to surprise people because they look at my face, and they don't know where I'm going.

I love characters who can rile an audience so much - it means you've done your job well.

I remember watching movies like 'Fatal Attraction' and watching the audience go bananas at the end of the film.