Quotes About Reception

When we were younger, playing a bar or a club, we did what we did to get as many people to like what we were doing. I wanted the person in the back of the room to like it as much as the ones in the front. That's how I've always looked at it.

The audience is the barometer of the truth.

There are certainly many British plays which go down far better with Dublin audiences than they would in Belfast.

Always really good audiences in Belgium.

We all do films believing in them completely, but sometimes, the audiences like what we like, and other times, they don't.

Benjamin had not dared, yet, to enquire about sales figures; as for the book's critical reception, it was non-existent. No reviews in either the national or local papers, of course, nothing on the various readers' websites and no reader reviews on Amazon - where it had a sales raking of 743,926 (or, if he wanted to cheer himself up, 493 in Bestsellers>Fiction>Literary Fiction>Autobiographical Fiction>Romance>Obsession).

And who can say whether my thoughts, independent of weight and time and the obstacles of matter, are not at the same moment being caught by mysterious, delicate, but unconscious receivers in the brain of an inhabitant of Mars as well as in the brain of the dog who barks outside?

Democratic politicians have disliked things I've written, Republican politicians... if they all love you, you might as well be driving a Good Humor truck.

Kids end up seeing my movies anyway but some of the mothers get mad at me so I figured I'd make one that I can't get yelled at for.

In my whole career, in fact, I can remember only two first nights when a show was at its peak on the first night. And I just wish we could devise a system where critics came not on a single evening but were given a choice of performances to attend.

It's funny, in some of the interviews I've seen that were done for the film, some people say things like, 'Oh, I was never a very big Jim Woodring fan. I've never thought his work was that great.'

A work of art doesn't exist outside the perception of the audience.

The public's perception of your show is what it is, and you don't get to complain how people perceive your show or talk about it.

The perception of the audience is the interesting part. If the audience doesn't hear what is going on, is it going on or not?

In general, I do not feel the media is very positive toward game performances unless the players play perfectly.

Music is a performance and needs the audience.

Bejart is almost never performed in New York City; critically, he just gets attacked here.

There've been periods where I had to convince the audience or win them over.

Truth comes as conqueror only to those who have lost the art of receiving it as a guest.

Though I am still very vulnerable to audiences - and it happens all the time - where for some reason the energy doesn't connect and, since the film is very personal, obviously I am made to feel very vulnerable by that.

A filmmaker is in a very vulnerable position when their films are releasing.

I don't expect to get a standing ovation from businessmen when I call for higher wages.

There is an audience for every play; it's just that sometimes it can't wait long enough to find it.

Applause, it's very nice, of course. But when you're giving, and creating, and then there is the silence of everyone sitting there, listening, waiting, that is great.