Scene Quotes

I find it really awkward to do a scene where I'm supposed to seem like I'm in love.

My mom and dad would take me all over. One night we'd be at the Apollo watching James Brown, and then I'd be at the Joffrey Ballet. It was that kind of scene.

My greatest accomplishment is Exodus. It changed a lot of peoples lives, it changed the conception of the Jewish people in the international scene.

I want to have a scene with Maggie Smith.

There's a special gut-check moment the first time you write a scene in which somebody casts a spell.

I believe this thought, of the possibility of death - if calmly realised, and steadily faced would be one of the best possible tests as to our going to any scene of amusement being right or wrong.

I direct in the same way that I act, which is thinking about what the scene needs.

I wanted to watch the women interacting with [Warren Beatty], which takes he chose, and how the actresses were reacting in scenes with him.

The greenhouse scene! It was just so fun to have the romance and the action.

So, for the most part, I really like when I read a scene that scares me and makes me sweat a little bit, thinking about doing it. That's usually a good sign to me.

There's something about being there, on the set, in costume, in the moment, where you start to get a feel for the scene, which is not the same as sitting in your office writing it.

I knew I would replay the scene countless times in the years before me, each time thinking of different things I should have said and done. But all I did was walk away without looking back.

Life is not an opera. Scenes belong on the stage.

I always wanted to play with the sound, but I always wanted to do it in a respectful way, because I never lived in New York and I don't have a real connection to that scene.

A lot of the struggle I had with movies is I really loved moments and tones and feelings in a scene, and I loved creating those, but I never really had great stories to string them together.

I decided to work on hand animate because the animators work as authors in every little scene and it brings real soul for characters.

Every actor wants to get their two cents in about a scene at the end of the day.

To one who has enjoyed the full life of any scene, of any hour, what thoughts can be recorded about it seem like the commas and semicolons in the paragraph-mere stops.

The international music scene has grown so much, and America is sort of following that.

Let us draw the curtain of charity over the rest of this scene

The ability to share whole scenes form our lives will be a valuable thing over time.

It was like passing the scene of a highway accident and being relieved to learn that nobody had been seriously injured.

If I've done my work well, I vanish completely from the scene. I believe it is invasive of the work when you know too much about the writer.

I take the fact that films cost a lot of money very seriously, but once in a while to have somebody say, This is a big scene, take your time with it, is important. That's John Sayles.

My favorite scene in all of movies is Gregory Peck in To Kill A Mockingbird: You see him where he's on the porch, and his face is almost completely obscured. I don't want to see his face.

I don't really ever think about whether or not I like the characters I'm playing. I'm more into the minutiae of their behaviour or what they're doing in a certain scene.

I do try to pay attention to new bands and what's happening within the scene. I try to make sure I give everything a listen - even if I loathe it.

People are appreciating the old stuff again and there's no MTV-style scene police to try to make us all listen to Machine Head and Pantera *puke*!

Sitting opposite Steven Spielberg, while he turns the pages of your script and talks about each scene as he goes, is about the best film school you can get.

I've always been partial to comedy. I love the idea of working on a comedic scene.

Yeah, what happened was Universal wanted one of the characters to be nice so they chose me so there was a scene where the girl was tied to the bed and I let her go.

I've always felt that the basic unit of writing fiction is the sentence, and the basic unit of the screenplay is the scene.

I like writing sentences. It's tactile and exciting. Whereas working at the level of the scene is a more cerebral pleasure.

Then if the actor comes up with, "It's more logical to do this," I just change it [a scene] on the spot.

Scenes change while shooting. Nowadays, while you're shooting the movie, you're cutting at the same time.

It's hard to keep the energy and the emotion of the scene when they're installing a massive green screen behind you.

Michael has never cried during a Broadway show. Except in that scene where Tarzan's ape father is brutally murdered. And that was only because he was laughing so hard.

We had this scene where I'm supposed to be bending over to get something. I thought it was kind of cute.

Mal Blum's arrival on the indie scene gives us all hope for the future of smart music.

Working with [Kyle Chandler] in the scene was like playing tennis. You work with really talented actors, I think they make other actors look really, really good.

Any time you can be with like-minded people, laughing or crying over the same joke or the same scene... For me it's therapeutic. You just feel a little less alone on the planet.

You know, when you finish the day, and you finish the scene, you don't get a chance to go back to it. So you wanna make sure that everything is left on the floor.

There's no point in swanning through and being cool as a breeze in every scene. It's not really that interesting. Even if you're a superhero.

If you do an original film and you want to cut a scene out you do it. But when you do a shot by shot remake you don't have that option and every scene has to work again.

The American new music scene is remarkably vibrant.

There always should be something hanging unfinished before a scene ends so that there's a reason for going to the next scene.

You can't feel sorry for a scene. If the movie works without the scene, then you don't need the scene.

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

You have to write a song around this specific character or to enhance a specific scene. A lot of other craft goes on.

I haven't had the time to plan returning to the scene because I haven't left it.