Best 474 quotes in «scene quotes» category

The universe no longer seems to me a scene, at least in front of the great, blank curtain of the unknowable, filled by an orderly progress of more or less cognizable and predictable occurrences, depending upon interrelated causes; it seems the playground of the irresponsible, prankish, malevolent somethings, productive of incalculabilities.

[on scene execution] Interesting isn't the point...storytelling momentum and relevance is.

Stay behind the scene; then you will have more freedom to work, more freedom to think and more freedom to act!

The waiter uncorked the bottle and poured the first taste. Pierre swirled and then lifted the glass to his nose to inhale the bouquet, the aroma of France, his homeland, He savored the taste of familiar tannins and metals, the acidity a bittersweet reminder of the laughter of children in the fields, of adults cheering long summer evenings, of long-buried emotions, Claire alive in his mouth, Pierre swallowed the wine and approved with a nod the waiter´s choice of bottle, the wine, like him, a survivor in a far-flung place.

The most hideous scene of life and the world is, the lamentation of a hungry child.

The velvet tapestry of the night curved from horizon to horizon, flecked with thousands of tiny stars. There seemed all the more of them, for as well as filling the sky, they shimmered in an elegant ballet on the waves, the sea itself giving them life.

The whole group represented a powerful picture: Ivan Nikiforovich standing in the middle of the room in all his unadorned beauty! The woman, her mouth gaping and with a most senseless and fearful look on her face! Ivan Ivanovich with one arm raised aloft, the way Roman tribunes are portrayed! This was an extraordinary moment! a magnificent spectacle! And yet there was only one spectator: this was the boy in the boundless frock coat, who stood quite calmly and cleaned his nose with his finger.

When you are suffering from sexual starvation, a spank or even a hug seems like a porn scene.

They say that dreams are only real as long as they last. Couldn't you say the same thing about life?

To Savor The Scene, A Book, or A Friend.

When writing, I uncage KAT: Keep Adding Tension. Even if I don't know where the story's going, petting the KAT keeps it purring.

A filmmaker doesn't have to suffer to show suffering. You just have to understand it. You don't have to die to shoot a death scene.

Actually, I didn't like Dartmouth very much, but the whole theater scene I really liked.

After all, in today's music scene every band seems to steal from other bands.

When you realize that incompetent police officers are harassing you, you need to call 911 and demand that a police supervisor be immediately dispatched to the scene. In the mean time you need to be video recording everything, as police officers are known for their blatant lies and fabrications.

Writing a first-draft battle scene is akin to real combat—chaos, confusion, and you must keep your cool as you fire word bullets downrange.

Above all, it's hard learning to live with vivid mental images of scenes I cared for and failed to photograph. It is the edgy existence within me of these unmade images that is the only assurance that the best photographs are yet to be made.

Acting makes me feel vulnerable. Especially depending on the type of emotion I'm portraying in a scene.

After The Beatles came on the scene everyone started putting on a Liverpudlian accent.

A good movie with bad music can kill a great dramatic scene.

A good novel is an indivisible sum; every scene, sequence and passage of a good novel has to involve, contribute to and advance all three of its major attributes: theme, plot, characterization.

A good movie is three good scenes and no bad scenes.

All love scenes started on the set are continued in the dressing room.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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 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 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.