There's nothing more instructive than the immediate response of an audience.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
For me, until I know that the audience really gets what I'm trying to communicate I'm not done.
Audiences are always better pleased with a smart retort, some joke or epigram, than with any amount of reasoning.
Audiences are the same all over the world, and if you entertain them, they'll respond.
If there were no rules about when to applaud, we in the audience would have the right response almost always.
If you start trying to communicate ideas, I think you don't allow the audience to see themselves.
I'm not about either entertaining or instructing. The entertaining and instructing are secondary fallout from the fundamental thing, which is basically to create an aesthetic object.
You instinctively discover how to entertain an audience.
I can see that I give my audience something. I can see it in their eyes, and they say 'Thank you' a lot. You realize you are doing something that means something to people.
You have to be aware of who you're talking to in an audience.
I prefer that for my own satisfaction over radio, there's no audience. TV, there's no audience. I need the response of the audience, even if it's a silent response.