Scene Quotes

So many times you see beautiful lovemaking scenes with a lot of exposure or an awkward lovemaking scene, but I think it's very rare that you see it private.

Yes, and there were changes of light on landscapes and changes of direction of the wind and the force of the wind and weather. That whole scene is too important in Homer to neglect.

Like with Berle, he was always trying to steal the scene, get a little extra.

When I was an art student in the early 60's before the acid scene began I was smoking pot just like anyone else who was an artist.

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

Bore children, and they stop reading. There's no room for self-indulgence or showing off or setting the scene.

If you're sitting in the audience, you probably can't see the preparation and work that goes into creating a great scene or a great part, but I can assure you that a good film depends on lot of different things falling perfectly into place.

Usually when I read something, first of all I'm looking for the story and then when I reread it, I'm sort of checking every part of it to see if every scene is necessary.

It's rare that scenes last more than 2 or 3 minutes, so sound helps segue from one scene to another.

Yeah, it's funny, working on a show with as large a cast as we have here, your work gets sort of compartmentalized. There's still about half the cast that I've never had a scene with but I have missed working with Terry.

Any time you get two people in a room who disagree about anything, the time of day, there is a scene to be written. That's what I look for.

Every actor I think has got their own number of takes that they like, you know. Some actors like to go all day, you know on the one scene and some actors want to take two takes. I personally like four.

I was so grateful to have made 'Into the Wild' before I made 'Speed Racer' because on 'Speed Racer' I was indoors every single day, every single scene, on a green screen. Some of the time, just to pass the time, I would think back to climbing mountains in Alaska. That really helped me.

I love to be nervous before a scene.

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

I hate when you see a film and after one scene you know what's going to happen and you can predict the whole story.

I don't personally look to my own life experiences for answers about how to play a scene.

The romance stuff is easy. A sex scene... that's hard, because you don't know what to do. Those scenes are awkward.

I try to use all of my senses when describing a setting, and try to think of everything that would impact a character in any given scene.

In rare instances you have to give up what you thought was a great scene.

I got heavily into the drum-and-bass scene, which is really wicked.

That's a rule in the business. No tongue. You can't really get into it, otherwise, it's weird. I think that particular scene made his (Adam Brody) girlfriend jealous. There were issues.

If I'm preparing for something and I've got a huge day the next day, I have to get into character the night before to assess the scene. I can't assess a scene unless I'm in character, if that makes sense.

I was very glad later when I was directing that I wasn't in the hands of a cinematographer and hoping that he would do it well. I would know what he was doing, and we could discuss how that scene would look.

The moment the curtain rose on that first ballet, I knew something wonderful and new had come into my life. I can still see the first scene. The ballet was Divertimento No. 15.

So on my screenplay, on the left-hand side of the page, I will put all the ideas that refer to the scene next to it so I have some sort of pictorial reference.

Most of the time I'm thinking, I'm glad that scene was improvised.

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.

It was a matter of survival for the local people, but it was the most violent scene I have ever witnessed. The people in my group, feeling helpless, were all spellbound and aghast at the same time. I became a vegetarian shortly after that.

If the director says you can do better, particularly in a love scene, then it is rather embarrassing.