Best 474 quotes in «scene quotes» category

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.

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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 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.

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.

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

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 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 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.

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

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

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?

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

At the still point, there the dance is.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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.