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A lot of action movies today seem to have scenes that just lead up to the action.

A lot of improvisation ends up being about just thinking outside of the box in the scene. It's not improvisation as much as it is quickness or making it real.

A lot of lines in movies were written, but I'm always improvising. Once you get into the scene, it just comes to me.

A lot of times I had footage that didn't have sound [in the Dream of Life film] - either I didn't bring a sound recorder, or I forgot to turn on the sound recorder - so we would have to improvise and build those scenes.

A lot of these "reality shows" do a lot of producing scenes and producing things and drama and all that but we did the deal contingent that we wouldn't do that.

A lot of the times once you've finished a scene, the best reaction is to say you don't really remember what happened. I don't really remember what I did or the choices I made.

A lot of the projects I've allowed myself to get involved with over the past few years have made me a bit unfocused. It's just so ridiculously easy to do things here; if you're part of the scene, in five minutes you can wind up with two gigs within three days of each other. There's too much going on here and that's a bad thing, to me. Unless you want to jam, and then it's good.

A lot of young directors, they're not confident; they're not open to the emotional level of the scene.

A man descending is propelled by inertia; the only initiative left him is whether or not he decides to enjoy the passing scene.

Amateurs... venture into scenes that a writer with more experience (and more professional concern) would bypass or eschew altogether.

A math lecture without a proof is like a movie without a love scene. This talk has two proofs.

Amid those scenes of solitude... the mind is cast into the contemplation of eternal things.

And I like those authors best whose scenes describe my own situation in life-- and the friends who are about me whose stories touch me with interest, from resembling my own homely existence.

Any scene I've ever played where I've thought people who watch it had experienced something like that - for example, people who've had to deal with losing a parent - I want to do it as respectfully as possible for those people.

And you can't hide in a comedy scene either. You have to give in to the scene and commit.

As a filmmaker, you are going to manipulate the character as you need to make the scenes work.

Are there any writers on the literary scene whom I consider truly great? Yes: Truman Capote.

A scene can be created when people are coming together. Either to shop or to hang out.

As an insecure writer, I'll finish a scene and worry there's a better version of it. Or it could be elevated somehow.

As an actor, you always find your way. You have whatever preparation techniques you use, and you just go with the scene when you're on set. You can only plan so much when you're working, because things have to come naturally in the scene.

A scene is never completed, but simply abandoned when the search for perfection is no longer producing positive results.

As I get ready to buy a new computer, I'm stunned at all the many micro drafts, of different chapters and scenes and whatnot, that litter the hard drive.

As far as my own life goes, I don't buy into the Hollywood scene.

As far as music, that's always going to be my first love and I've always loved doing music and I always will, but right now it's more into film, television and behind the scenes with writing and producing. I'm still going to keep releasing music for my fans.

As not a native, I have the advantage of not seeing scenes habitually. I can see things fresh.

As I've gotten older, the parts have diminished. I liked it when I was younger, I could always play the lead in the movie and I could do all the romantic scenes with the women, and it was fun and I liked to play that. Now, I'm older and I'm reduced to playing the backstage doorman or the uncle or something. I don't really love that so occasionally, when a part comes up, I'll play it.

As soon as there is language, generality has entered the scene.

Assure thee, if I do vow a friendship, I'll perform it to the last article." --Othello, Act III, Scene iii

As they spoke, the only thing I could think about was that scene from Julius Caesar where Brutus stabs him in the back. Et tu, Eric?

Be able to describe anything visual, such as a street scene, in words that convey your meaning.

As we passed on, it seemed those scenes of visionary enchantment would never have an end.

At the assassination of Caesar when Cassius says, "How many ages hence shall this our lofty scene be acted over in states unborn and accents yet unknown!" And you kind of went, "Never was there a truer word spoken.

At the still point, there the dance is.

[ Being naked on scene ] was like walking a tightrope without a net - with a giant fan blowing at you.

Being in the same scenes as Maggie Smith and Shirley MacLaine is something I will never forget.

Before that I wanted to be a magazine illustrator - I probably would have painted Gothic scenes.

Breaking is when someone starts to laugh in the middle of a scene, which is so fun to watch.

Believe then, if you please, that I can do strange things. [Act 5, Scene 2]

But I couldn't cut that whole septic tank scene out because the audience liked it so much. So I sort of fell right back into getting a cheap laugh, but I still loved it.

Bryan Cranston is generous, he's funny. When we did a wedding scene [in The Infiltrator ], at the end of the movie with a big set piece, he put the veil off the bride, he put it on, he pretended like we were getting married, he's just a goof.

Deleted scenes are like in a middle gray zone. It's like, well, they're deleted because they're not good or you lost the battle and you couldn't put them in the movie.

Cath wanted to go back and rewrite every scene she'd ever written about Baz or Simon's chests. She'd written them flat and sharp and hard. Levi was all soft motion and breath, curves and warm hollows. Levi's chest was a living thing.

Carvin Jones is one of the brightest young stars on the blues scene today

Denzel Washington was so great at The Great Debaters, so focused and talented. That was just an honor to be cast in that, for the most part. I was fat, and I guess the casting director sold him on me. He actually said to me during the scene, "You know, I've always found that less is more," which is an expression that you've heard a million times, but it was a nice way of telling me I was overdoing it.

Each character has their own challenges. The challenge to doing one scene is your whole history of who you are and your relationships, you only have this one shot.

Don't be late to the theater. The opening scene is a goody.

During one performance of 'Les Miserables,' the barricade didn't leave the stage, so we had to actually end up finishing the second act with the barricades on the stage, which was very strange... doing the love scene on the barricade.

Even in the big movies, if the scenes are very big, I'm not fond of them as much as I'm fond of small actor scenes.

Eternity! thou pleasing dreadful thought! Through what variety of untried being, Through what new scenes and changes must we pass!

Every frame and every scene has to have an intention.