Audience Control Quotes

I enjoy playing the audience like a piano.

We are blessed to not have violence at our shows. People come to our shows and act a clown. When you do music, you have no control who comes to your shows. I'm sure they have fights at Miley Cyrus shows.

We're trying to evolve a lot away from YouTube because YouTube is awesome - they have a huge audience, and we started there - but then you're at the mercy of their algorithms a lot, too. They can change anything, and it's really up to them, and you can't say anything about it.

The audience wants control. They want freedom.

In comics the reader is in complete control of the experience. They can read it at their own pace, and if there's a piece of dialogue that seems to echo something a few pages back, they can flip back and check it out, whereas the audience for a film is being dragged through the experience at the speed of 24 frames per second.

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

Acting is bad acting if the actor himself gets emotional in the act of making the audience cry. The object is to make the audience cry, but not cry yourself. The emotion has to be inside the actor, not outside. If you stand there weeping and wailing, all your emotions will go down your shirt and nothing will go out to your audience. Audience control is really about the actor

People resent movies that try to tell them exactly what to feel.

Any good actor has to have a good sense of humour, too; they have to be able to manipulate people.

In my experience, very few people walk out of a movie. You have them for two hours, and you're free to explain or not explain whatever you see fit.

I don’t think television will ever be perfected until the viewer can press a button and cause whoever is on the screen’s head to explode.

As you get older as a comedian and keep doing it, what you actually start to cherish on stage is not the build-up to the jokes, but how comfortable you can be in the silence and the non-laughing parts, and how long you can take the audience without a laugh to then get a huge reaction.

There are many other ways in which language can be used to manipulate an audience. one obvious way is to simply lie.

Will the people in the cheaper seats clap your hands? And the rest of you, if you'll just rattle your jewelry.

The audience determines whether they still want to watch you or not.

Even Hitchcock liked to think of himself as a puppeteer who was manipulating the strings of his audience and making them jump. He liked to think he had that kind of control.

My dad was just so charismatic and witty. One day, I hope people say that I was just as good as my dad on the mic in my own way. I will never be saying 'Space Mountain' or 'limousine riding,' but I hope people say I can control an audience, that I was as captivating as him.

The sexuality is being sold to the artists as power when in fact it's not; it's a way of hypnotizing their audience.

I feel that special secret current between the public and me. I can hold them with one little note in the air, and they will not breathe. That is a great, great moment.

Acting is merely the art of keeping a large group of people from coughing.

As soon as people enter a theater they must become moron consumers who must be fed information.

It's so easy to manipulate an audience, but it's nearly always clear that you are being manipulated. I think even people that are not critically attuned are aware of cynical manipulation in film.

Everything about a movie is manipulation.

I'm manipulating the audience. I'm making sure people sympathize.

It is my custom to keep on talking until I get the audience cowed.