Mike Gallagher 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.

I like test screenings. I like to see a movie with an audience of strangers. I think it tells you a lot.

I feed off the audience a lot, their energy.

The crowd is the crowd. You're gonna take them as an individual performer how you take them. The key is how do you learn from them. How do you use whatever is happening reaction-wise to get better.

I need an audience to look at what I've done so I can understand it, so I can step back and watch them respond and figure out what they're understanding about what I'm trying to do and what they're confused about.

I love storytelling and I love just relating directly to an audience. That's why we do theatre, it's because we love contact with the audience. We love the fact that the audience will change us. The way the audience responds makes us change our performance.

As far as how much you listen to the audience, you listen to them when they really hate something.

What's great about having an audience is they can let you know what they don't think is funny, and you can just cut that out and keep trying.

A performance is only as good as the audience you are playing to. A lot of times you feed off of the audience, and we always try to give them all we've got and sometimes you don't get a lot back, but we've never been dead whenever we've performed.

I feel so much feedback in a very profound way from the 10,000 people who are listening to me, watching me. I just get this deep sense of what works and what doesn't work.

I love test screenings. Some directors don't, I know. But I love it. I think it's because I come from the theatre and in the theatre, previews are where you really have to listen to the audience and really feel how they're responding. I found our test screenings incredibly useful.

As an author, you need to keep talking to your audience to remind yourself what they like and what they don't like. You spend most of your life locked in a room, and you need to be social occasionally.

I get a lot of inspiration from the audience feedback to our live shows.

Your audience gives you everything you need. They tell you. There is no director who can direct you like an audience.

It's nice to get the feedback from a theater audience. It's a gas.

Film is a medium where the audience gives you 100 per cent.

As long as the crowd make noise, I will be in my element, whether it is booing or cheering. The main thing is I get a reaction of some kind.

I'm always making micro-adjustments onstage, listening to the audience, and what a crowd is like can be infectious.

The audience is so important. Because there's something that I might think is super funny, but if it's just not getting the feedback, I have to let it go.

To be honest with you, I don't know how even to articulate it at this point, because sometimes the real difference in the seasons perhaps will come in the way the viewership responds and the audience responds. The thing about the show is - we realign a lot about it once our audience watches it. We learn things that we can't even anticipate.

If you intend to create something that people will observe and listen to, you've got to listen to them first.

You need an audience to help you figure out what's working and what's worth putting on your album or your special - or even just what's worth touring with.

There have been times when I've written something and it goes out and it comes back in a letter from some kid as to what they think about it and I've taken their analysis to heart so much that I have taken up his thing. Writing what my audience is telling me to write.

I don't ever see movies by myself. I always see them with other people because I want to know what works. I want to know where they laugh. I want to know where they don't laugh. I want to know what they think about it afterwards because in the end that's what the art that I'm working with is.

When you have a great audience, you can just keep going and finding new things.