Scene Quotes · Page 53

In constructing the plot and working it out with the proper diction, the poet should place the scene, as far as possible,…

— Aristotle

But, as an actress, you don't want to run into these scenes, willy-nilly. The couple that I did do were important for…

— Tamsin Egerton

[Deadpool] is definitely squirm-inducing. It's a pretty hard R, violence-wise. But cartoony, also. Maybe fast-forward through to torture scenes.

— Doug Benson

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

— Matthijs van Heijningen, Jr

If the scene bores you when you read it, rest assured it WILL bore the actors, and will then bore the audience,…

— David Mamet

I guess the biggest difference from the things I've done in the past is that my work will be more narrative-driven adult…

— Sasha Grey

Where the world ceases to be the scene of our personal hopes and wishes, where we face it as free beings admiring,…

— Albert Einstein

I had to be naked [in Vinyl], but I was almost more nervous about having to be drunk. The director wasn't going…

— Ray Romano

Because of what I experienced when I was a kid, I want kids to have that kind of an epiphany moment, that…

— Dane Cook

I get a terminal dissatisfaction on films. If I was bad in one scene, it's impossible to let go. And it can…

— Jared Leto

In the scenes of moral life the soul is at once actor and spectator.

— Joseph Marie, baron de Gerando

Over analyse, paralyse, you mustn't over analyse... Do you wake up at four in the morning and wonder who should be playing…

— Roy Keane

I suddenly feel a vague pity for all those writers who have to ply their trade from sleepy American suburbs, writing divorce…

— Teju Cole

It is always a nice feeling when you are challenged by a scene and you walk out of trailer and you go…

— Ewan McGregor

We just started filming, and after every scene was shot, we had a rehearsal for the next one.

— Rupert Grint

With all of the qualities of the scene-setting, the dialogue, the place and time and the time and place in which your…

— Gay Talese

I remember watching 'Colombo' a lot with my dad. That was one of the first detective shows I remember watching. And I…

— Stephanie Beatriz

That's why I love improvisational theater so much - you do it [scene] once and then it's done. You don't get bogged…

— Amy Sedaris

I'd love to claim that what I have done in my life is of my doing, but it's not of my doing…

— John Hurt

There's always the pressure on the director of how to transition from one scene to another, especially when it can really be…

— Alex Graves

In junior high in Germany I fought kids all the time. I had such a bad temper, I almost got thrown out…

— Shaquille O'Neal

I hate period films - and there are plenty of them - where they say, "Let's not do contemporary language because the…

— Mike Leigh

I gotta do some sad scenes. Why, I never tried to make anybody cry in my life! And I go `round all…

— Buster Keaton

In the beginning, it wasn't even a question of deciding I'm going to do independent film and not commercial films - I…

— Steve Buscemi

It was with 9/11 that I came to fully appreciate and embrace NPR's irreplaceability as a sanity preserver, its unique virtues as…

— James Wolcott

I am an owner who prefers to stay behind the scenes and allow my staff to do what they do best.

— Charles Wang

If you give a scene enough room to breathe, actors will hopefully find those magical moments.

— Greg Bryk

What good is making a jewel if nobody see it? But cost depends on the story. To get those performances in 'Biutiful,'…

— Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

The script of 'Shogun' was so tight that you could not take a word out of a sentence, you could not take…

— John Rhys-Davies

Human beings are like detectives. They love a mystery. They love going where the mystery pulls them. What we don't like is…

— David

I don't know, being able to work with Meth was pretty damn cool, but even that day, John, the director, gave me…

— Josh Peck

Until mountain biking came along, the bike scene was ruled by a small elite cadre of people who seemed allergic to enthusiasm.

— Jacquie Phelan

The scene is memory and is therefore nonrealistic. Memory takes a lot of poetic license. It omits some details; others are exaggerated,…

— Tennessee Williams

When I was filming the death scene [in Inglourious Basterds], and I'm killing somebody, I had to work myself up.

— Eli Roth

Why would you hand the keys to the car back to the same guys whose policies drove the economy into the ditch…

— Chris Van Hollen

Erasmus dramatizes a well-established political position: that of the fool who claims license to criticize all and sundry without reprisal, since his…

— J. M. Coetzee

There were other Anti-Christs among the Nephites, but they were more military leaders than religious innovators... they are all of one breed…

— B. H. Roberts

It's very frustrating making a picture in Paris. We work hard all day at the studio to get a love scene just…

— Bob Hope

The saddest human experience is to view alone the scenes one has viewed through other eyes - to walk solitary where one…

— Katherine Cecil Thurston

I would hit a scene about my mother screaming at me during her breakdown, drunk or using pills, and she'd turn into…

— Leigh Newman