Abi Morgan Quotes

I learn more from the audience than I can from anybody else. Not from what they write on the scorecards, but how they respond to the movie while they're watching it - where they laugh and where they react.

The difference between a theatre with and without an audience is enormous. There is a palpable, critical energy created by the presence of the audience.

I'm obsessed with audiences and obsessed with the journey that an audience goes on.

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.

I want people to come see my films and enjoy them but at the end of the day you can't control what people think.

Only really good comedies and really good horror movies get a verbal response out of the audience. People will scream. People will laugh.

We like reactions - a reaction is walking out on us, a reaction is throwing tomatoes at the stage, that's a healthy psychological reaction.

One can never anticipate how audiences will respond. One of the lessons that I've learned over the years is to that no matter what my feeling or opinion might be about a given film, once you give it to the audience, they own it.

I don't think anyone ever gets over the surprise of how differently one audience's reaction is from another.

When the audience comes in, it changes the temperature of what you've written.

You can feel whether an audience is tightened up and pulled back. Of course the opposite is an audience like we've been having in LA, which is fabulous.

I want people to come see my films and enjoy them, but at the end of the day you can't control what people think.

Here's the funny thing: Nothing drives a performance like an audience that gives back and even takes over. ECW was a product that will be remembered as much, if not more, for its audience interaction as for the things that happened in the ring.

One of the things I've learned is you can't really control what an audience is going to feel.

You always hope an audience will respond to something you've done, but there's no way of knowing whether or not they will.

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

In MMA, you're trained to tune the audience out. In sports entertainment, you're trained to feed off what the audience is thinking and feeling.

I've had shows where you think, "Is this going well? I can't tell," and then you say goodnight and you get this ovation. They're sorta like a theater audience. I've learned that much; that they're not always going to be doing backflips - but I'll never figure it out. Because sometimes you walk up there, and they're so excited, and then other times, it's just... But sometimes an audience is bad, and you can tell them they're bad, and that sort of breaks the ice a bit.

You have a responsibility for the way you make the audience feel, and I want them to feel uncomfortable.

You can have a good vibe and a good feeling about something, but you never really know how it's going to be received and how an audience is going to react to it.

I feel that audiences are very sophisticated, and part of my challenge is to keep them engaged because they are so complex.

I love television because it's the most alive, because you don't know how it's going to end. It's a living thing. Sometimes the writers are watching you to see how things will unfold. Sometimes the writers have written it, and you come to it, and they have to change their way of going because of what you've done.

I think you write the film that you want to see, and you try and do it honestly, and you can't control people's responses, really.

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

Never underestimate the effect you can have on certain sections of the audience, though. You should see some of the letters I get.