“I enjoy the element of pushing yourself, learning something new, whether it's a dance step, a scene, an emotion.” EnjoyEmotionStepsSceneElementsPushingSomething NewPush YourselfLearning Something NewDance Steps Author:Kenny Wormald
“Especially with a comedy, you've got the clear cut goal of trying to make a scene funny. It's not like drama where you're trying to achieve some kind of emotion or trying to further the story along. You're trying to figure out what's the funniest way to do something.” WayTryingKindStoriesGoalEmotionClearComedyCuttingAchieveFiguresDramaScene Author:Luke Wilson
“I don't particularly like the idea that there's an arc to the story and that therefore in this scene you have to convey this bit of information or emotion. I like more the feeling that, of course, there is a shape to the story, but that each scene should feel right, should be true at that moment, and that gradually you accumulate these moments of truth until you get enough of them together that it becomes a story that's interesting.” FeelsShouldIdeasEnoughMomentsStoriesFeelingsTogetherCoursesBitsInterestingEmotionInformationSceneShapesBeing TrueThat MomentArcsFeels RightMoment Of Truth Author:Michael Winterbottom
“The painter doesn't try to reproduce the scene before him... he simplifies and eliminates until he knows exactly what stirred him, sets this down in color and line as simply and as powerfully as possible and so translates his impression into an aesthetic emotion.” KnowsTryingLinesEmotionColorSceneImpressionPainterAestheticTranslateSimplify Author:David Milne
“I love Kimberly Peirce. Incredibly intense is a good way of describing her. Brutally honest. Really sharp. She's a director for actors. That's what she's best at, sitting down with an actor and just getting to the heart of what a scene is. And getting to the heart of not just what the scene is and the character is, but what you are, and how to build that bridge between the "me" and the character, and those emotions.” WayHeartCharacterActorsEmotionHonestSceneDirectorsSittingIntenseBridgesDescribingGood WaySitting DownBrutally Honest Author:Joseph Gordon-Levitt
“Emotion will always win over coolness and cleverness. It's when a scene works emotionally and it's cool and clever, then it's great. That's what you want.” WantWinningEmotionSceneWhat You WantCleverClevernessCoolness Author:Quentin Tarantino
“What I love in working on film is just working with actors. It's one thing to write scenes alone over a keyboard and to imagine the actions and reactions in your head, but it's a completely other thing to hear actors speaking your words, to see their bodies bringing the fullness of emotion, need, desire and pain to life right in front of you. It's amazing.” NeedsWritingBodyActionPainFilmDesireActorsEmotionImagineOne ThingFrontsSceneReactionsFullnessKeyboardsAction And Reaction Author:Dee Rees
“Fight sequence to me isn't just about the athleticism. It so often is about what the emotion that is behind it and how willing you are to really, really challenge that emotion or really take that emotion to that place so you're feeling a certain intensity for the whole time when you're shooting the actual physical scenes.” WholeFeelingsCertainFightingChallengesEmotionBehindsWillingSceneShootingIntensitySequenceOften IsAthleticism Author:Vin Diesel
“Even when other powers have been lost and people may not even be able to understand language, they will nearly always recognize and respond to familiar tunes. And not only that. The tunes may carry them back and may give them memory of scenes and emotions otherwise unavailable for them.” PeopleGivingMayHas BeensAbleLostLanguageMemoriesEmotionSceneFamiliarTunes Author:Oliver Sacks
“[While voicing] you have to create a feeling for what happened before a scene, what's going to happen after a scene, and what you are doing in a scene. You need to use your imagination even more and once your emotions are up, then your voice and expressions will go accordingly.” NeedsUseFeelingsHappensVoiceImaginationEmotionHappenedExpressionScene Author:James Hong
“There were movies that always made me want to be a director. You see brilliant scenes and the way the emotions were handled. I thought, I'd really like to do that.” WayWantMadeEmotionSceneDirectorsBrilliantBrilliant Ideas Author:Bruce Beresford
“Scandal is great entertainment because it allows people to feel contempt, a moral emotion that gives feelings of moral superiority while asking nothing in return. With contempt you don't need to right the wrong (as with anger) or flee the scene (as with fear or disgust). And the best of all, contempt is made to share. Stories about the moral failings of others are among the most common kinds of gossip, they are a stable of talk radio, and they offer a ready way for people to show that they share a common moral orientation.” PeopleWayNeedsGivingFeelsKindMadeStoriesShowsFeelingsCommonEmotionMoralFailingShareReadyReturnSceneOffersAskingRadioEntertainmentGossipContemptStableDisgustingSuperiorityScandalOrientationTalk RadioMoral SuperiorityContempt You Book:The Happiness Hypothesis: Finding Modern Truth in Ancient Wisdom Source: The Happiness Hypothesis: Finding Modern Truth in Ancient Wisdom
“Elijah can register such subtle emotion on his face that I loved doing close-ups on him. He really brings a superb emotional level to Frodo's scenes and although he is a very instinctive actor, we discussed the character thoroughly.” CharacterFacesActorsLevelsEmotionEmotionalSceneSubtleRegisterSuperbElijahFrodo Author:Peter Jackson
“Acting in a scene is like paddling a canoe from a pebbly beach on to the river, the writer builds the canoe, and the actor provides the river. The river is the actor's thoughts and emotions.” ActorsActingEmotionSceneRiversBeachThoughts And EmotionsPaddling Author:Sanford Meisner
“Such exceptional suffering and calamity, then, affecting the hero, and-we must now add-generally extending far and wide beyond him, so as to make the whole scene a scene of woe, are an essential ingredient in tragedy and a chief source of the tragic emotions, and especially of pity. But the proportions of this ingredient, and the direction taken by tragic pity, will naturally vary greatly.” WholeSufferingEmotionTakenSourceHeroSceneEssentialsTragedyAddWidePityChiefsProportionTragicIngredientsWoeExceptionalCalamityVaryExtending Author:A. C. Bradley
“My favorite thing to do is action-driven, emotionally-charged scenes. If it's not just two people talking in a room, but it's on the move and things are happening and it's chaotic, and emotion comes from the characters and from the action, and the fall-out ultimately changes the character relationships, that exactly the kind of stuff I like writing.” PeopleIfsWritingKindTwoCharacterActionMovingFallStuffRoomsEmotionTalkingSceneHappeningsMy FavoriteDrivenThings To DoChaoticFavorites ThingsPeople TalkingStuff I Like Author:Geoff Johns
“But when there were certain moments or scenes that required a very specific nuance or performance, I myself would act out the scene or the sequence and that would inspire the actors. Of course, I can't really express emotions on camera, but I was very active in showing a certain action or a blocking for an actor. I would also participate in certain stunts myself and because of that, I would get bruises or cuts on my knees and elbows.” I CanMomentsActionCertainCoursesActorsEmotionCuttingInspireScenePerformancesCamerasActiveBlockKneesSequenceNuanceElbowsBruises Author:Kim Jee-woon
“In the case of two actors connecting with each other and trusting each other, our bodies have memories without us having to consciously think about it, so rather than think, "Oh, I must think about my daughter dying," you just let that go and trust that you have all the emotions you need in there, and by losing yourself in the scene, that stuff kicks in without having to spend the day thinking about horrific things happening to your own child.” ThinkingNeedsChildrenTwoBodyActorsStuffMemoriesEmotionCasesDyingSceneLosingHappeningsDaughterThings HappenKicksMy DaughterConnectingLosing YourselfHorrificTrusting Each Other Author:Michael Sheen
“That was a very different emotion and I felt Dido's words would be good and I had a template with my voice in it. Then, when he heard it, he wanted both our voices together in it and that's the scene when he sees the boy and then he gets charged to go on that final cutting effort.” DifferentWould BeWantedTogetherFeltVoiceEffortEmotionBoysCuttingHeardGoes OnSceneFinalsBe GoodDifferent EmotionsDido Author:A. R. Rahman
“It's hard to keep the energy and the emotion of the scene when they're installing a massive green screen behind you.” HardEnergyEmotionBehindsSceneGreenScreensMassiveBehind You Author:Meaghan Rath
“As an actor, I feel that my work makes me very vulnerable. I have to be emotionally available to serve the scene I'm doing. You never quite know where your emotions will take you.” KnowsFeelsActorsEmotionSceneAvailableVulnerableNever QuitDoing You Author:Jacob Vargas
“There are certain scenes, certain hills and valleys and groves of pines which demand that a story shall be written about them. I would refine; I would say that the emotions aroused by these external things reverberating in the heart are indeed the story; or all that signifies the story....We translate a hill into a tale, conceive lovers to explain a brook, turn the perfect into the imperfect.” HeartStoriesCertainTurnsPerfectEmotionWrittenLoversSceneDemandTalesHillsValleysImperfectTranslateBrooksGroveHills And Valleys Author:Arthur Machen
“The key is to remember a sex scene is a scene of dramatic action and psychological development. You need to pay attention to emotion and to a character's self-awareness or lack of self-awareness.” NeedsSelfCharacterActionRememberSexPayEmotionAttentionAwarenessKeysDevelopmentSceneSelf AwarenessPsychologicalPay AttentionDramaticPsychological Development Author:K. M. Soehnlein