Advancing Quote by Catherine Hardwicke

If a story doesn't give you a hard-on in the first couple of scenes, throw it in the goddamned garbage.

— Samuel Fuller

If a scene or a section gets the better of you and you still think you want it-bypass it and go on. When you…

— John Steinbeck

It's really fun when a scene doesn't work.

— Casey Affleck

If something isn't working, if you have a story that you've built and it's blocked and you can't figure it out, take your favorite…

— Joss Whedon

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

— Nick Cave

Unless the story line carries the scenes, the scenes don't really mean anything.

— George Cukor

If your first scene doesn't give you a hard on, throw it out!

— Samuel Fuller

“Sometimes instead of creating a scene it’s better to quietly slip out of the scene, practically unseen. It saves a lot of drama, unless…

— Art Hochberg

Doing a scene is like opening a bottle. If it doesn't open one way, try another - perhaps even give it up for another…

— Marilyn Monroe

The challenge for me is to make sure I've done my work. To make sure not every scene is quiet, that other scenes rise…

— Debra Granik

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

— Jonathan Rhys Meyers

Sometimes you can write a great scene, but when you're actually in a situation and it doesn't work, you have to be flexible enough…

— Diane Kruger