It's so easy for shows to be gritty and handheld and shaky and really tight in people's faces.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
As a member of the audience I don't like it that I can't see what's going on in the eyes and in the face and in the most subtle responses of a performer when I'm more than a few rows back. I find it very frustrating.
I think there are ways in which shows can pop their heads up a little bit in the morass of everything you can watch.
I stuck out like a sore thumb when I came on, just by the fact that I looked so different. I think that adjustment for the audience was a hurdle for me.
I can't do talk shows, I don't do them, just because I get really nervous and fidgeting and shaky.
People, when they go on stage, tend to be animated and try to force things out instead of relaxing and bringing it in.
I love the stage - the fact that you only have one take to get it right, the interaction with the audience, and how every show is different even though you're doing the same thing.
People who aren't complicated in real life come through as pretty bland on the screen. Most great performers are not very happy and well adjusted. Perhaps that's the price they pay for being originals.
There's something in human nature, the trying-to-get-on-with-it quality of people, the struggle to maintain or keep the show going can be exhausting.
I've been on shows where they're just setting it up, and they're trying to find the tone of the writing and performance. That's always a really chaotic period on shows.
There are so many people in film and television that get between a performer and the audience, and that's frustrating.