Baron Vaughn Quotes

It doesn't matter as long as there's interaction between me and the audience. That's why they come.

I love connecting with the audience, and there's more ways than one to do that.

I am always looking for what piece, what artists, what playwrights, what directors, what subject matter is going to catalyze an audience.

I consider each performance to be an intimate conversation between me and the audience members.

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

You have to channel the interpretation and performance into 100 people. And with the audience, the critics.

If you don't get feedback from your performers and your audience, you're going to be working in a vacuum.

I can tell how I'm doing, and I can tell if the crowd is particularly dead.

The audience plays a huge part in how a piece will actually form. They really allow the performers to walk a tightrope in a way that never seems to happen in the privacy of your own four walls. I'm listening to the audience, and they're listening to me.

I like trying to create a spark through a collaboration between me and the audience.

So much about getting onstage is creating a connection with an audience that allows you to go different places and try different things.

I think a lot of audience members don't realize the part that they play in live theatre. The audience actually has a mood. Sometimes they're tired and bored, and we have to wake them up and engage them.

One of the things that's really lousy about making movies is that you have such little interaction with your audience.

I like getting requests from audience members.

The audience, the place you're in, has everything to do with how your performance goes.

Anytime you get an audience that's paying attention, you enjoy it more.

When you have the cast, the sets, the lights, an opera takes on its own life. I'm not one of those directors who marches in with a set of plans.

I really enjoy doing the live stuff.

I like performing. I like partnering with an audience.

Using rhetorical questions in speeches is a great way to keep the audience involved. Don't you think those kinds of questions would keep your attention?

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

How does my music connect to an audience? That is just a complete mystery to me.

I can't imagine working without and audience.

You can't force something like that. But we have encouraged our audience, because we avoid the confrontation of regular rock concerts: us up here, you down there. Instead, we're looking for interaction.

I don't know if I ever really considered making a connection with the audience.