Lines Quote by George Cukor Download Open image “Unless the story line carries the scenes, the scenes don't really mean anything.” — George Cukor ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.8 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare Lines Mean Really mean Scene Stories
You can't feel sorry for a scene. If the movie works without the scene, then you don't need the scene. — Michel Gondry Copy Share Image
When you direct a film, everything should be about the story and nothing else. — Esra Saydam Copy Share Image
I'm good at description and imparting flow to a story, but I don't necessarily understand the value of long scenes. — Karan Mahajan Copy Share Image
Since I am a person who starts work without clear knowledge of a storyline, every single scene is a pivotal scene. — Hayao Miyazaki Copy Share Image
Don't listen to some outside interpretation - do the scene as it makes sense to you and the other actor. — Stephen Henderson Copy Share Image
I think there are a lot more relationship scenes in my movies that people tend to overlook. A lot of scenes really feel real… — Jan de Bont Copy Share Image
If a story doesn't give you a hard-on in the first couple of scenes, throw it in the goddamned garbage. — Samuel Fuller Copy Share Image
Sometimes you can have a great scene but it just doesn't need to be in the movie. If it's not progressing the plot, not… — Kevin Feige Copy Share Image
If a scene isn't well written they'll drop your neckline to fill the void. — Madeline Kahn Copy Share Image
Some stories doesn't need to be written, circumstances automatically narrates the scenes behind it. — Sushan Copy Share Image
Everything a director does must help the story and the performances. Otherwise, it is useless. — William Wyler Copy Share Image
It is reassuring for people to feel they have a boss, someone who knows the answers and has charted the course. — George Cukor Copy Share Image
From the director's point of view, it's infinitely easier to do violence than to do a good dramatic scene. — George Cukor Copy Share Image
I don't think you can teach people how to be funny. You can make suggestions about how to speak a line or get a… — George Cukor Copy Share Image
Give me a good script, and I'll be a hundred times better as a director. — George Cukor Copy Share Image
Anyone who looked at something special, in a very original way, makes you see it that way forever. — George Cukor Copy Share Image
If there is such a thing as 'a Cukor style,' I guess it arises out of two principal factors: my own personalized perception of… — George Cukor Copy Share Image
People who aren't complicated in real life come through as pretty bland on the screen. Most great performers are not very happy and well… — George Cukor Copy Share Image
The truth is, a director wins an Oscar for a writer's script and actors' performances. — George Cukor Copy Share Image
“Be adventurous, but, of course, with some sense of reality. You shouldn't say, "There's nothing I can't do," because you know damn well there… — George Cukor Copy Share Image
Because after you've crossed some lines, you just keep crossing them. And there's no escaping from constant escape. Distracting ourselves. Avoiding confrontation. Getting past… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
Plenty of white space and generous line spacing,and don't make the type size too miserly. Then you will be assured of a product fit… — Giambattista Bodoni Copy Share Image
People who try to predict the future by extrapolating in a line of more of what exists - they are always wrong. — Jane Jacobs Copy Share Image
Age is an accumulation of life and loss. Adulthood is a series of lines crossed. — Ellen Goodman Copy Share Image
His fingertips slid down from my face, lightly stroking the line of my neck, down toward my shoulder. Everywhere he touched, a trail of… — Richelle Mead Copy Share Image
The show was number one in the ratings, Gordon Russell was our head writer, the story lines were magnificent and the acting most exciting.… — Michael Storm Copy Share Image
I've done so many other projects where you're in a room with a reader and you're acting your lines out: 'We have to get… — Jim Cummings Copy Share Image
Filmmaking, like sex, isn't a polite enterprise. It involves a lot of mess and the bottom line is, if somebody ain't screaming, you're not… — James Woods Copy Share Image
If life were like a competitive race, some people would be given a flying start and others would line up with weights tied to… — Mardy Grothe Copy Share Image
When you're the director and the writer, you never have to remember your lines, and there's no one to call you on it. On… — Zach Braff Copy Share Image
One of my most productive days was throwing away 1,000 lines of code. — Ken Thompson Copy Share Image
To evoke in oneself a feeling one has once experienced, and having evoked it in oneself, then by means of movements, lines, colors, sounds,… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image