Books Quote by Celeste Ng

I realized that in every movie, there are a handful of scenes that stand out. So, if you get two of those four-five scenes,…

— Chunky Pandey

It's a feeling you get. You could have a hundred actors reading for one part, and they could all be spectacular, but one sticks…

— Daren Kagasoff

One often doesn't often get to do the same part, over and over again, unless you do a run in the theater.

— Ioan Gruffudd

When you're writing for the screen, you have to be hyper-conscious every moment of how the audience is going to react. If you write…

— Salman Rushdie

Also, if you watch the film once, there are lots of things that you won't get because there are punch lines in the first…

— Simon Pegg

If a scene is longer than three pages, it better be for a good reason.

— Alan Ball

Actors don't request what scenes to be written in. That's just not how it works.

— Nicholas Gonzalez

You might only get three takes to do a scene; sometimes it takes longer than that to find those moments.

— Asa Butterfield

I think it's an obligation to make a movie full, so you have to see it twice to get all the moments.

— Shane Black

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

— David Mamet

Each character has their own challenges. The challenge to doing one scene is your whole history of who you are and your relationships, you…

— Viola Davis

With the theatre, for God's sake, everything makes sense. You create a clear sequential reality for a specific audience at one particular time.

— Simon McBurney