“For better or worse, most of my writing life has been about people that work behind the scenes. I'm interested in finding extraordinary moments in otherwise normal people.” PeopleWritingHas BeensMomentsBehindsSceneNormalFindingsExtraordinaryWriting LifeBehind The ScenesExtraordinary Moments Author:Mark Boal
“I think it's more normal to make a movie dealing with love, sexual or not, than to make movies about bank robberies, which very rarely happen in real life. So I would say the problem is not what some people feel is normal, I would say the problem is why this whole industry is far more obsessed with filming scenes of dominance, guns, invasion.” PeopleThinkingFeelsRealWholeProblemHappensIndustrySceneNormalGunReal LifeObsessedInvasionDominanceRobberyBank Robbery Author:Gaspar Noe
“When I say that the acting is sort of like a normal acting experience, I'm just talking about the interacting in actual scenes, like doing dialogue.” ActingTalkingSceneNormalDialogueInteracting Author:Noel Fisher
“Kevin Bacon and I recently worked on a move together, R.I.P.D. Just before we'd begin a scene, when all of us would feel the normal anxiety that actors feel be- fore they start to perform, Kevin would look at me and the other actors with a very serious expression on his face and say: "Remember, everything depends on this!" It would make us all laugh. On the one hand, it's not true of course, but on the other, everything does depend on this, on just this moment and our attitude toward this moment.” FeelsLooksDoeMomentsHandsTogetherRememberFacesMovingCoursesActorsAttitudeLaughingSeriousExpressionDependsSceneNormalAnxietyLook At MeKevinRemembers Everything Author:Jeff Bridges
“It's a surreal thing because you are there and made up and dressed up as if you're making the film. You do the scene, which is going to be in the film, and I met him [Daniel Craig] and I'm working with the director, and so it is different to just a normal audition.” IfsMadeDifferentFilmMetsSceneDirectorsNormalAuditionsSurrealDressed Up Author:Gemma Arterton
“It was Herzog, the man himself. He was so welcoming and kind and not at all the persona you'd seen in a magazine, or in "Burden of Dreams" for that matter. I'd shot the behind-the-scenes for "Bad Lieutenant." It was a very normal production. Nothing like "Burden of Dreams."” MenKindMatterDreamBehindsHe ManSceneNormalShotsProductionsBurdenWelcomeMagazinesPersonaBehind The ScenesLieutenants Author:Sam Pressman
“The trouble with normal is it always gets worse, fashionable fascism dominates the scene.” TroubleSceneNormalFascismFashionable Author:Bruce Cockburn
“LSD is no longer playing a bad role in the drug scene and psychiatrists are again trying to submit their proposals for research with this substance to the health authorities. I hope that LSD will again become available in the normal way, for the medical profession. Then it could play the role it really should, a beneficial role.” WayShouldTryingPlayRolesSceneDrugAuthorityNormalResearchAvailableProfessionMedicalSubstanceSubmitBeneficialProposalPsychiatristLsdMedical Profession Author:Albert Hofmann
“And once you live a good story, you get a taste for a kind of meaning in life, and you can't go back to being normal; you can't go back to meaningless scenes stitched together by the forgettable thread of wasted time.” KindStoriesTogetherTasteSceneNormalMeaninglessThreadGood StoryWasted TimeMeaning LifeForgettable Author:Donald Miller