“The best thing about writing fiction is that moment where the story catches fire and comes to life on the page, and suddenly it all makes sense and you know what it's about and why you're doing it and what these people are saying and doing, and you get to feel like both the creator and the audience. Everything is suddenly both obvious and surprising ("but of course that's why he was doing that, and that means that...") and it's magic and wonderful and strange.” PeopleKnowsFeelsWritingMeanMomentsStoriesCoursesFictionAudienceFireWonderfulMagicStrangePagesObviousCreatorMake SenseBest ThingsThat MomentSurprisingWriting FictionSaying And Doing Author:Neil Gaiman
“It doesn't matter what you feel - ultimately, it's what the audience feels. You can finish a scene and think to yourself, 'Oh, God. I was so deep in that moment,' and find it just didn't play. I don't know if I have very good radar about that or not.” IfsThinkingKnowsFeelsMatterPlayMomentsAudienceSceneVery GoodThat MomentRadar Author:Carey Mulligan
“I stumbled on a joke idea and style that worked, the audience went with it and, from that moment on, I was hooked. It's an amazing feeling.” IdeasMomentsFeelingsAudienceStyleJokesThat MomentHooked Author:Marcus Brigstocke
“Garbo still belongs to that moment in cinema when capturing the human face still plunged audiences into the deepest ecstasy, when one literally lost oneself in a human image as one would in a philtre, when the face represented a kind of absolute state of the flesh, which could be neither reached nor renounced.” HumansKindStillsStatesMomentsFacesLostAudienceAbsolutesOneselfFleshCinemaThat MomentEcstasyHuman FacesGarbo Author:Greta Garbo
“Awards mean nothing to comedians. What matters is the audience, how you're doing - artistically, for the most part - at that moment.” MeanMatterMomentsAudienceComedianThat MomentAwardsWhat Matters Author:Steve Martin
“As an actor, the only thing we can do is play the truth at that moment. Because at any point in time if you play the future, or you play that you know something that the audience does not know, it kills the illusion of reality.” IfsKnowsDoePlayMomentsRealityActorsCan DoAudienceIllusionThat Moment Author:Anthony Mackie
“An actor must communicate his author's given message--comedy, tragedy, serio- comedy; then comes his unique moment, as he is confronted by the looked-for, yet at times unexpected, reaction of the audience. This split second is his; he is in command of his medium; the effect vanishes into thin air; but that moment has a power all its own and, like power in any form, is stimulating and alluring.” MomentsFormActorsGivenActingPowerAudienceComedyAirEffectsMessagesUniqueTragedyCommunicateReactionsCommandMediumsUnexpectedThat MomentSplitsAlluringThin Air Book:The Fabric of Memory Source: The Fabric of Memory
“The beauty of shooting on something that's not in front of an audience is that you can just cut out the times you're laughing. You can cut to the other person and try to use that moment, right before you break. There's an energy to those performances. There's a reason people were laughing. There was something very special. That little extra something was in that line delivery or in that improv, so you try to use that stuff.” PeopleTryingLittlesPersonsReasonMomentsUseEnergyStuffLinesBreakAudienceLaughingCuttingSpecialFrontsPerformancesShootingExtrasThat MomentDelivery Author:Ken Marino
“You think you have some stable talent which will show no matter what you're writing, and if it doesn't seem to be getting across to the audience once, you can't imagine that moment when it suddenly will.” IfsThinkingWritingMatterMomentsShowsSeemsAudienceImagineTalentNo Matter WhatThat MomentStableImagine That Author:Joan Didion