Quotes About Response

There are certain artworks that I respond to, artists that I respond to. It's an intellectual reaction but it's also a biological reaction. And the excitement that the work can generate - how it makes you feel about not only your intellectual possibilities but your physical possibilities in this world. How it feels to be alive!

The most important thing is to illicit some reaction, good or bad. If some people are repellent to me, so be it. If some people are attracted to me, great. At the end, that's the object of entertainment - you want to provoke a reaction.

If you're going to do something that's going to cause offence to people, you're always going to get a reaction.

I still think that, uh, the original draft from 'The Room' was brilliant in its own way. It made me laugh, which is - which is a good thing. It got a reaction.

I have this problem that I just like to get a reaction from people.

You kind of know what kind of reaction a Yorgos Lanthimos movie is going to get.

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 take audience reaction very seriously.

As in nature, so in politics: Every action has a reaction.

It is a feel-good factor when you get an instant reaction from the audience.

In a live show, the reaction to our jokes is instant. You know immediately whether the joke is working or not.

Comedy is basically action but you get the reaction on laughter.

Some people handle situations differently - some people have a reaction, some people let it go over their head.

Football is a reaction sport.

I think it'd be pretty juvenile to make a record as a reaction to my critics.

Audiences get tired, and sometimes, the reaction you get on a match is based on how tired the crowd is.

All adventure is now reactionary.

Anytime I make a movie, I really have absolutely no idea how it's going to go over. I've had the whole range of different kinds of reactions.

There are so many reactions to art that make sense to me - but 'ick' means something.

In movies, you don't get reactions: Live, when you do a joke, you know in a second whether it's good or bad. But in a movie, since no one is allowed to laugh or do anything, when you're done with a scene, you're left asking, 'Was that funny?'

The bottom line is that sometimes the little things I do on the pitch provoke exaggerated reactions.

I know I create major reactions in people.

'Ragtime' was the most magical show that I've done. I had an incredible experience with that, with the show itself, with the cast, with the audience. The response to that show - my God, it really blew me away, the reactions to that show, the way it changed their lives and altered their thinking, their own self-discovery.

I'm very conscious of what I consider to be the first audience of any movie that I make. It's those people whose reactions I'm most attentive to. They're the ones who will tell me whether I've done my job or not.