Action Quote by Tim Heidecker

I think you're sort of always waiting, wondering when the word "cut" is going to be said when you're doing a scene. Like you're…

— Ashton Kutcher

I'm not a fan of these very cutty, handheld-y kind of films or TV shows, where a cut is just every half second or…

— Sam Esmail

I never say "Action" or "Cut." Never. I think that would disturb the life from happening in and around everything.

— Ramin Bahrani

We start with a rehearsal where the actors kind of bring what they think should be in the scene. But we film everything, and…

— Lars von Trier

That's basically all my act is - it's just listening all the time and watching for what people do with their hands and so…

— Peter Kay

All good conversation, manners, and action come from a spontaneity which forgets usages and makes the moment great.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

I always wanted the actors to feel really free to leave the words behind if they weren't working, reword lines, if they felt like…

— Lynn Shelton

I don't call cut between the takes - it's my way to help the actor keep focused. As soon as you say 'cut' you…

— Michel Gondry

When you have people like Casey [Affleck] and Michelle Williams and they want to do more takes you don't say, "Sorry, that's it." And…

— Kenneth Lonergan

We just did what we'd done when we were an act in the '60s. But I found it impossible to hold a dialogue with…

— Paul Simon

The job is the same - to attempt to make it sound like you've never said it before and as if it's just occurred…

— Bill Nighy

In silent movies, they tended to put the camera down, and everybody walked in front of it and acted, and then they all walked…

— Bruce Beresford