Every performer I talk to will, with different words, talk about the sanctity of a good standup show, how it can really feel spiritual. When everybody is laughing, fixed on the same thing, you feel like you transcend yourself.
Interpretation
A good stand-up show creates a shared, transcendent experience among performers and audience members through laughter.
In this quote, Pete Holmes expresses the deep, almost spiritual connection that occurs during a successful stand-up comedy show. He highlights how laughter can unify both the performer and the audience, allowing them to transcend their individual selves and experience a collective joy and connection that feels profound and sacred.
In practice
This quote can be used to emphasize the importance of laughter in bringing people together during events.
Those of us in the industry who are still foolishly clinging to the idea that female films with women at the center are niche experiences - they are not. Audiences want to see them and, in fact, they earn money. The world is round, people.
Great buildings, like great mountains, are the work of centuries.
To me, music is entertainment - what else can it be? In fact, it's the only language I know of that's universal.
I feel as though I've gotten to a point where I don't really want to set a book in any real place ever again.
I'm a storyteller; that's what exploration really is all about. Going to places where others haven't been and returning to tell a story they haven't heard before.
When I was in high school, I felt totally alienated from the world, but I loved movies. They were my escape, but coming from a disadvantaged community, I never knew that filmmaking was an option for me. A program like School of Doc would have been a game-changer.
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