Michael Gracey Quotes

My style was always to put the audience in the driving seat, so they feel they're a part of the action.

The audience is like my instrument. It's not just me up there, it's collaborative.

One of the things I love about theater, one of the reasons I'll never give it up, is that it's fifty percent the audience's responsibility.

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

I always think the audience should be part of the show.

Both me and Edgar are firm believers in never underestimating or talking down to an audience, and giving an audience something to do, to give them something which is entirely up to them to enter into the film and find these hidden things and whatever.

Whether you are a writer or an actor or a stage manager, you are trying to express the complications of life through a shared enterprise. That's what theatre was, always. And live performance shares that with an audience in a specific compact: the play is unfinished unless it has an audience, and they are as important as everyone else.

I like a movie that the audience actively has to participate in, and not just casually observe. Whatever my part in it, just as an audience member, I find that exciting.

My whole thing is not just to play music for people, but to make them part of the evening.

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

You don't work as hard to watch a movie. You work harder to watch a play, so what the audience puts into it is interesting.

I definitely love performing live because there are moments of spontaneity. And as much as you're performing on stage, I feel like the audience is performing, too.

Film has become a very passive experience, but with theatre, there is a contract made with the audience, where they participate. That's why my parents' puppet theatre was such a special place - people used their imaginations. It's a muscle that needs using.

Rock n' roll is a participatory sport.

I learnt so much wit, really, from the Globe audiences. If you can make a circle, even in a proscenium theater, if you can get a circular energy going, so that all these people are involved with it and present, then there is something curious that happens with the imagination.

The best thing you can do to an audience is to make them work.

I refuse to make films where the audience comes for consumption. I make films where you know you are also part of the process.

The live events are more interactive for the fans. With TV, you have the cameras there, commercial breaks where the fans can tell there's a down moment. At the live events, it's non-stop. We get to play with the audience; the crowd gets to get involved a little more. It's a very intimate feel.

Even though standup seems like one-way conversation, if you're doing it right, it's actually a two-way discussion between the comic and the audience... the audience just happens to be communicating through laughter.

I just want my music to involve an audience in what's taking place onscreen.

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

The more you put into it, the more you and the audience will get out of it.

I like to do shows that open a dialogue.

MSG Sphere London will provide a home where like-minded communities can come together to not only interact with the performance, but also with each other.

As I'm out there in the ring, I hear everything that the crowd is giving me. I give it back sometimes, too. As far as I'm concerned, I want people to walk with me.