Scene Quotes

I mean that much more than wiser beings from beyond the stars bringing us enlightenment or death or salvation, we are likely to find ourselves the wisest beings on the scene.

You don’t have the slightest idea of what it means to write a scene and a character in the English language, with images and words chock full of received meaning.

You really have to work harder to come up with new ways to play the scenes.

I sit every once in a while and I think about plays and films I can do with William Petersen into our eighties. He's the most incredible scene partner I've ever had.

Marriage enlarges the Scene of our Happiness and Miseries.

I don't think action for action's sake is so fun, but when it helps tell the story, I love doing a good fight scene.

I'll look at the script and I'll try to find as many books, movies, and pieces of music that I think are going to feed each scene or the character as a whole

In live action, you go scene by scene, but in voice over you go line by line. In voice over you do a lot more takes.

When you suddenly appear on the scene and you are the new face, everything centers on you. I experienced this in my mid-20s and I found it rather hard.

...let the emotional weight of a scene rest on the dialogue wherever possible. This is the easy way to avoid overinterpretation, which seems to be what turns a scene from sympathetic to sentimental.

I just did a part in 'Sin City 2.' I got to do a scene with Ray Liotta. Amazing man, extraordinary gentleman who was just so kind to me... I'm so excited about that I think it's gonna be very cool.

My little secret before I do every scene is I say a short little prayer.

Every book has got its challenges. You run into a plot point that you can't figure out, or a scene that you struggle to write and have to write 50 times.

I love when scenes are intentionally and meticulously planned so we feel like this is a handcrafted scene that only works in this moment and this movie, and that's the way I approach my films.

You never have to change your scene because you're always comfortable with evolving.

For me, screenwriting is all about setting characters in motion and as a writer just chasing them. They should tell you what they’ll do in any scene you put them in.

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

If I want to kiss, I shall kiss. If I am told that a lovemaking scene is integral to the script, I will consider it.

In the '90s, people wore scrunchies, but it was very uncool in the punk scene.

I heard I'm going to have scenes with Lady Gaga so I'm hoping it's true. I know of one scene I have.

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

It was really fun to bring that scene to life. I can't wait to see it at the premiere with the fans.

If I cry on telly, I'm genuinely crying. If it's a gritty scene it can come naturally.

Major part of the Southern California pop scene in the 60s "People think that love is an emotion. Love is good sense."

The view of the local scene through the eyes of a native participant in that scene is a different window.

I never felt I would be part of the international scene for 50 caps in my wildest dreams.

It wasn't so much of a controlled effort to end up as part of the Goth scene.

I enjoy the element of pushing yourself, learning something new, whether it's a dance step, a scene, an emotion.

The good thing about having chemistry is, when you get to the improv section of a scene, you've got somebody to feed off. It can go on and on and on, and the sky's the limit.

I don't want to show deleted scenes. I don't like an audience looking at what the movie might have been - if it's in the movie, it's in the movie.

Ive always been ahead of the curve when it came to trying new stuff in the underground scene.

I care less if I can't be part of your scene because I am the scene. I am everything that is.

I liked a lot of the scenes I did with Ryan Phillippe.

The lo-fi scene and the riot grrrl thing had a huge influence on me. As a teenager I went to see Bikini Kill and all those bands.

I am fascinated by crime scene investigating. I swear, I wish I was a crime scene investigator sometimes!

We only did probably two, three takes on every scene we did, at the most.

It's hard to get lost in a scene, to get into a character when everyone's standing around you on the set.

After my final Breaking Dawn scene, I felt like I could shoot up into the night sky and every pore of my body would shoot light. I felt lighter than I've ever felt in my life.

I hurt myself doing a fight scene with some dwarves.

Rock & roll is dying. It’s frightening to think about the music scene 20 years from now.

I just can't believe that anyone would start a band just to make the scene and be cool and have chicks. I just can't believe it.

We start with a rehearsal where the actors kind of bring what they think should be in the scene. But we film everything, and we use cuts of this first take, also.

What about good small roles for women? I've told my agent, if there are two great scenes in a film, I don't care, if it's something with that great edge to it.

We goofed around a lot and acted silly. It was great working with Mark Wahlberg too. Some off scenes I had with him I was terrified to do, but he was great.

As actors we always say that once the person in a scene gets what they want, the scene is over. It's resolved. But life is never resolved - you're always in the process.

Well, it's more of a sane life to be part of an ensemble! I find that the work can be more specific too and I have to really make sure I know where I am in the story because I'm not in every scene.

Onstage I'm the one in control - I'm not at the mercy of how an editor chooses to put the scene together later. I can do things onstage that I would never do in real life. It's very freeing.

When I was on Broadway, my most recent Broadway show was 'Spring Awakening,' and every night I did a topless scene.

We prate of freedom; we are in deadly fear of life, as much of our own American scene betrays.

I love directing scenes that I'm not in because suddenly I really feel like a filmmaker which is a different thing.