Scene Quotes · Page 75

I think that sharpens the intention of a scene and clarifies a story's arc. Of course, I don't seek the questions until…

— Edan Lepucki

“It may be expedient to take stock of all the affecting pieces that might shatter in the wake of an emotional earthquake,…

— Erik Pevernagie

I got introduced to the rave scene in 1992. At the time I was into skateboarding; I listened to a little hip-hop…

— Pedro Winter

For me and my films, I want my audience to experience cinema in its full glory. It's not just visual, it's audio…

— James Wan

I am a writer who works from an outline. What I generally do when I build an outline is I find focal,…

— Brandon Sanderson

Remember the great film with Bette Davis, All About Eve? There's a scene after the scheming Eve steals Margo's role through trickery…

— Martha Grimes

I don't know if you want to see the Everybody Loves Raymond guy in a nude scene.

— Ray Romano

I'm sure you could have. Fending off unwanted male attention is a skill every attractive woman must acquire. But you're also a…

— Sandra Brown

Yet Byron never made tea as you do, who fill the pot so that when you put the lid on the tea…

— Virginia Woolf

You must believe in your own instincts and your own instincts at any particular time and believe that they were the right…

— Dominic Cooper

The experience of directing yourself in a sex scene is, in a way, great. It's the fantasy we all have in our…

— Lena Dunham

I shy away from showing cruelty on the page. A lot of the violence in my books actually happens off stage. The…

— Tess Gerritsen

Fiction is a sort of inter-human magic, allowing you to travel into a scene and feel it tingle on your skin.

— Barbara Kingsolver

For me, the more talented the actor is that I'm working with, the easier my job is because the circumstances of a…

— Marshall Allman

Beauty may be perceived in any scene by one with sympathy and understanding. Beauty is in the mind.

— Walter J. Phillips

If mankind were to resolve to agree in no institution of government, until every part of it had been adjusted to the…

— Alexander Hamilton

I didn't want to live in LA again, although I'd go back every couple of months to do an interview, usually with…

— Sylvie Simmons

I love making people uncomfortable, and when people say, 'I cringed watching [that] scene,' that's the biggest compliment you can give me.

— Allison Williams

A good movie with bad music can kill a great dramatic scene.

— Joel Surnow

Every reader of the Dreiser novels must cherish astounding specimens--of awkward, platitudinous marginalia, of whole scenes spoiled by bad writing, of phrases…

— H. L. Mencken

Acting has helped me detox in football. Getting lost in a character and a scene, it's awesome.

— Thomas Jones

You can still have chemistry on screen without getting on with the person. But it just makes your job a lot easier…

— Hugh Dancy

I wrote the plot [for the Persepolis ]and Vincent [Paronnaud] and I wrote and discussed the shooting of the script. Vincent then…

— Marjane Satrapi

That was a weird thought. My straight-up mother being bothered by faeries? Delia was even weirder. I could picture the scene. Faerie:…

— Maggie Stiefvater

They never let Rider [Strong] and I do scenes together because we would look at each other and start laughing,

— Will Friedle

I don't believe in myths of decline or myths of progress, even as regards the literary scene.

— Harold Bloom

Humor is so important to the American scene throughout history.

— Bob Newhart

You can't really gauge the difficulties of television. There's difficulties and joys that happen with an amazing, great team, when one is…

— Melissa Leo

Great directors can understand the staging in such a way that can make a scene come alive. Others have a certain way…

— Al Pacino

My biggest style inspirations come from the '90s. I'm really inspired by TLC, Janet Jackson, and designers like Jeremy Scott. I'm hugely…

— Kat Graham

An expression of feeling isn't worth anything unless it interferes with what the other actor in the scene wants.

— Michael Shurtleff

I'm living on coffee, cigarettes and hospitality food. My bags and things are all over this hotel room in Dallas, but the…

— Corey Taylor

A lot of times you have very ego-driven actors and actresses that stay in their little world, and when you have a…

— Dawn Olivieri

There is one scene where he is kissing up my back. It is really sexy and I didn't know he was going…

— Gemma Arterton

I remember, when I was writing 'Traffic,' talking to top federal drug-enforcement officials and having them say they read it and found…

— Stephen Gaghan

In the summer between my freshman and sophomore year, my grandfather got me a job at a local messenger company working on…

— Lewis Schiff

When you're just able to distill it down to the idea and the feeling that a character is experiencing in a scene,…

— Kevin Spacey

I treat any scene the same - dialogue, action - you're still creating something in character. It's all acting, fighting.

— Clive Owen

What characterized the whole punk scene for me in 1977 was there was no racism or sexism. It was an anarchy of…

— Chrissie Hynde

The last thing you want to do when you are about to film a scene is think, 'Oh my God, so many…

— Karen Gillan