Artist Quote by Martin de Maat

In an artwork you're always looking for artistic decisions, so an ashtray is perfect. An ashtray has got life and death.

— Damien Hirst

I think the goal is to make a well written scene seem like it's improvised and/or to come up with things that you find…

— Robert Downey, Jr

You don't have ideas when you're sitting in that sort of sterile little place, and you're not around people. The most boring scenes are…

— Chuck Palahniuk

So on my screenplay, on the left-hand side of the page, I will put all the ideas that refer to the scene next to…

— Adrian Lyne

Taking nuances from real life will help you make scenes that have never been done before. It keeps the story interesting.

— Rajkumar Hirani

A scene does have a life of its own.

— Kelly Reichardt

“all people start to come apart finally and there it is: just empty ashtrays in a room or wisps of hair on a comb…

— Charles Bukowski

If the theme is simple, you can include a hundred details that create the illusion of actuality better.

— Satyajit Ray

When we were working on 'Taxi to the Dark Side,' we would purposefully not show it to certain people in the cutting room, because…

— Alex Gibney

It [smoking] was like an aphrodisiac. Actors would say let's have another cigarette on that great scenes, and they'd blow smoke in each other's…

— Chris Matthews

As filmmakers, we're constantly always looking for something to bring the audience deeper into the reality of the story we're telling.

— Jeff Bridges

“smarting and smoke was hanging thick in the air while the ashtray on Karras’s desk was mounded high with ashes and the twisted butts…

— William Peter Blatty