Passive Audience Quotes

You don't fully understand the meaning of a work until the audience responds to it. Because the audience completes the circle, and adds a whole other shade of meaning. Whenever you view something, and this is why great works of art survive decades and centuries, is because there's a door within the work that allows the audience to walk through and complete the meaning of the work. An audience isn't passive, nor are they unintelligent.

I don't want people to love me. I want people to chill and just listen to my music.

People want to see big, escapist fare. They don't want to be challenged to think.

Most theater tells you what to think.

The public wishes itself to be managed like a woman; one must say nothing to it except what it likes to hear.

I don't want to tell them what to take away from a movie, I think a movie should tell that.

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

It's pretty inappropriate of fans to think they can expect any kind of narrative from showrunners or writers or actors. I just don't think that's the way you should engage with material that you're watching as a passive audience member.

The audience is already doing so much, so I don't make them work any harder.

People have curiosity, they have intelligence, they have interest in understanding their peers. But producers and directors of cinema have decided that the seats in the theaters have been made to transform people's minds to lazy minds.

An audience of twenty thousand, sitting on its hands, could not have produced such an echoing silence.