If it doesn't feel organic to the audience, you gotta trust your gut.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
I gotta admit, when you've been doing this a long time, going out to the audience and asking for them to help out with crowdfunding, it's a gut check. You never know how that's gonna turn out. Luckily for us, it turned out well.
The public's nerves are raw and edgy. You have to be discreet and understanding about the films you are showing.
My audience expects cold, hard truth. They don't expect me to dance around it. They expect me to say it the way they think it. That's part of my brand. If I don't do that, then my audience goes, 'What's up? Is he sick or something? What's wrong with him?' The entity has a brand.
There's a oneness to showing yourself to an audience. They feel that. It's healthy. That's what acting is all about.
Part of being an actor is letting things come about organically as opposed to forcing them.
If the audience sees and feels things are real, then they buy it.
As long as I can make an audience feel something, I don't care whether it's a good thing or bad thing, just to feel something is important to me.
'Organic' doesn't mean what people think it means.
You've got to keep your finger on the pulse of what your audience is thinking, and know what they'll accept from you.
You can always trust that an audience is smarter than a studio thinks it is.