Scene Quotes · Page 157

Enduring fame is promised only to those writers who can offer to successive generations a substance constantly renewed; for every generation arrives…

— Andre Gide

It was my first scene. My first day. We could have started with me drinking a beer, something a little less than…

— Gisele Bundchen

I have always been good at auditioning, but maybe because I had a good trick at the beginning. I would pretend that…

— James Marsden

If they're working in a workshop somewhere, where there is, let's say, uh... only twenty people, or something like that, that's still,…

— Ray Walston

I don't really have those kinds of intentions when I write a scene. I try to follow the internal logic of the…

— Rachel Kushner

One can't write a weird story of real power without perfect psychological detachment from the human scene, and a magic prism of…

— H. P. Lovecraft

I just gravitated toward (working behind the scenes by) growing up on the different sets and watching my father and other people…

— Michael Landon, Jr

I prefer love scenes to be shot up close with a lot of focus on eyes and mouths. Otherwise it can feel…

— Andrew Davies

You write a scene, and it works or it doesn't. It's immediate.

— Nick Cave

I do believe that the outward and the inward life correspond; that if any should succeed to live a higher life, others…

— Henry David Thoreau

In a given scene I may know nothing more than how it's supposed to end, most of the time not even that.…

— Richard Price

I have done scenes as Harvey Two-Face. It's interesting. I won't tell you exactly what we're going for, but I think that…

— Aaron Eckhart

But when there were certain moments or scenes that required a very specific nuance or performance, I myself would act out the…

— Kim Jee-woon

If you're locked to the words on the script, as good as those scripted words are, if you didn't have the time…

— Mark Duplass

When you're working in the [film] industry and you're working with people who are well known and are so regarded, you do…

— Asa Butterfield

When I went to LA I was almost 30, I'd been nominated for two Tony awards, and on the New York theatre…

— Patrick Wilson

During one performance of 'Les Miserables,' the barricade didn't leave the stage, so we had to actually end up finishing the second…

— Josh Young

L.A. has a fantastic car scene and because the climate is so gentle, cars can last forever.

— Lee Child

I think sex is very interesting for most people, but I'm interested in sex as a way of communication, I'm not that…

— Maggie Gyllenhaal

I like working with actresses, and I like women a lot, not for obvious reasons, but just in that that there's so…

— Ryan Gosling

I paint the American scene.

— Robert Indiana

I mean that much more than wiser beings from beyond the stars bringing us enlightenment or death or salvation, we are likely…

— Jon Spaihts

When I get to work with people I admire, it's such a bonus, so it was an easy sell when I got…

— Brent Spiner

My favorite scene in all of movies is Gregory Peck in 'To Kill A Mockingbird': You see him where he's on the…

— Mary-Louise Parker

You know, you're just sitting with him [Chevy Chase], then you're doing a scene with him and acting, and all of a…

— Danny Pudi