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“I don't get the jitters and I don't get nervous, because I build that comfort on set for myself. Sometimes if I'm gonna do something really crazy, it helps me to yell or look like an idiot on set, so that when I'm about to do a scene, I've already embarrassed myself. I find ways to work around getting the jitters.”

Ifs Way Looks Sometimes Helping Crazy Comfort Scene Nervous Idiot Help Me Embarrassed Jitters

Author:Logan Lerman

“Yeah, what happened was Universal wanted one of the characters to be nice so they chose me so there was a scene where the girl was tied to the bed and I let her go.”

Character Wanted Girl Nice Happened Scene Bed Universal Yeah Tied Being Nice Let Her Go

Author:Matthew McGrory

“I'd have a sex scene with Whoopi Goldberg or Star Jones.”

Stars Sex Scene

Author:Method Man

“I love more than anything looking at a movie scene by scene and seeing the intention behind it.”

Behinds Seeing Scene Intention

Author:Jodie Foster

“I played a scene at the end of my first year, and that's how I was discovered.”

Years Firsts Ends Scene

Author:Olivier Martinez

“I'm a technician. I don't go for the get-into-the-role stuff. I read the lines and play the scenes.”

Play Stuff Lines Roles Scene Technicians

Author:Jodie Foster

“I'm not into the whole showbiz scene.”

Whole Scene Showbiz

Author:Samantha Mumba

“If a comic comes out on the scene and it's really knock-out brilliant, the community is pretty good about getting the word about good newcomers.”

Ifs Community Scene Brilliant Comic Newcomers

Author:Scott McCloud

“I think we've shot scenes from every angle directors can think of to make it look like different villages. I've directed a couple shows on that set and believe me, it's impossible not to duplicate some camera angles.”

Thinking Believe Looks Different Shows Impossible Couple Scene Directors Shots Cameras Village Believe In Me Angle Duplicate Different Angles Camera Angles

Author:Vic Morrow

“I think independent movies are actually very challenging right now, because it was this huge scene and it was great for a few years. Then, it was totally co-opted by the studios. Now, it's become very corporate, the independent scene.”

Thinking Years Challenges Huge Right Now Scene Independent Studios Corporate

Author:Bob Odenkirk

“It's nice that the independent scene is taken seriously, and has been.”

Has Beens Taken Nice Scene Independent

Author:Bob Odenkirk

“The alternative scene, for a couple years now, has been taken seriously and that's a cool thing. I don't think it's exploded or anything, but I think it's pretty cool that it still exists, it's still affecting people.”

People Thinking Years Has Beens Stills Taken Couple Scene Alternatives Cool Things

Author:Bob Odenkirk

“Action scenes get me so excited, and my adrenaline starts pumping.”

Action Scene Excited Adrenaline Adrenaline Rush

Author:Jodi Lyn O'Keefe

“Breaking is when someone starts to laugh in the middle of a scene, which is so fun to watch.”

Fun Watches Laughing Middle Scene

Author:Kaitlin Olson

“I can't think of an instance at MSNBC where anything I said on the air was influenced by what was going on behind the scenes.”

Thinking Said I Can Behinds Air Scene Instance Behind The Scenes

Author:Keith Olbermann

“I have two concerns with my work: having good things to act, and getting paid. In that order. Although if you're not getting paid well, that order can change. But that's what I'm concerned about. Good scenes. Decent money.”

Ifs Wells Two Order Scene Concern Concerned Paid Good Things Decent

Author:Terry O'Quinn

“In the past I've been very into the falling part, very into the swimming in the dark, deep emotional water. 'Rampart' I really went into it and it took me three times as long to get out of that depression as it did to just do the scenes. I had to learn to give it my all and then go home and laugh.”

Giving Long Home Past Fall Three Water Dark Laughing Emotional Scene Swimming Three Times Deep Emotional

Author:Brie Larson

“Before college, I acted in my room, to classical music, because music tells stories. I'd put on a record and proceed, silently. I'd keep putting the needle back to a certain segment because I hadn't died well enough. I had to really, really feel dead. I'd love to do a death scene.”

Feels Wells Enough Stories Certain Rooms Records College Scene Music Is Died Classical Music Needles

Author:Amanda Plummer

“Some film actors want to sit back and look at every scene and all that crap. No, you're an actor - tell the story, and when it's told, there's another one to tell.”

Want Looks Stories Film Actors Scene Crap Film Actors

Author:Clarke Peters

“The joy of 'Crash' was that it was all about the work. It was my first real part. Before that, it was a line here and there, maybe a scene. 'Crash' was five scenes, a beautiful arc, a little vignette of my own. It really meant something.”

Firsts Littles Real Beautiful Joy Lines My Own Five Scene Working It Crash Here And There Really Mean Arcs Vignettes

Author:Michael Pena

“I don't write from dreams because I don't remember mine, but I had a fragment of an image left about twins, whose father was telling them how their lives were going to go for the next eight years. I wrote a scene about that, and then another and then another and then another, and after five months I had 732 pages.”

Writing Years Dream Remember Next Father Left Five Mines Months Scene Pages Eight Twins Fragments

Author:Tamora Pierce

“As an actor, I like as much time with the material as possible and given the opportunity, time spent with the other actors in the scene. But that is a rare luxury in working in any TV series.”

Actors Opportunity Given Materials Tvs Scene Series Luxury Time Spent Tv Series

Author:Vincent Piazza

“I think in L.A., in terms of the music scene, it's a really strange place. It's really hard to get the feeling that something's happening, or the feeling that something can make it out of there.”

Thinking Hard Feelings Term Strange Scene Happenings Strange Places

Author:Aleksa Palladino

“I was in a play directed by my father, and I was doing a fight scene, and the choreography went haywire, and I flew backward over a chair and ripped my thumb all the way to my wrist and had to have surgery to sew up all the tendons in there.”

Way Play Fighting Father Scene Chairs Surgery Thumbs Flew Wrists Ripped Choreography

Author:Jeremy Piven

“I don't really ever think about whether or not I like the characters I'm playing. I'm more into the minutiae of their behaviour or what they're doing in a certain scene.”

Thinking Character Certain Scene Behaviour Minutiae

Author:Mary-Louise Parker

“My favorite scene in all of movies is Gregory Peck in To Kill A Mockingbird: You see him where he's on the porch, and his face is almost completely obscured. I don't want to see his face.”

Want Faces Scene My Favorite Porch Mockingbird Kill A Mockingbird

Author:Mary-Louise Parker

“I first came on the scene during the Johnson years and that crowd was out all the time enjoying themselves. Nixon wasn't particularly social but a lot of the people in his administration were.”

People Years Firsts Social Enjoy Scene Crowds Administration Johnson

Author:Sally Quinn

“I think it's so dope that I'm here in Chicago and contributing to the music scene that's thriving. People are so happy Chicago's shining that everyone is willing to say 'I represent Chicago.' That wasn't always the case.”

People Thinking Cases Willing Scene Shining Chicago Contributing Dope

Author:Chance the Rapper

“If you're getting ready to do a really emotional scene then, right before it, you're probably not going to be outside playing basketball.”

Ifs Emotional Ready Scene Basketball Playing Basketball

Author:Emilie de Ravin

“I would say, stay the hell away from the party scene. Anything you put in front of your goal, and especially something like that, whether it's too much gambling, too much food, too much (sic) cold beers on the weekend - anything that you put in front of the prize is going to end up getting in the way and hurting you in the end.”

Way Ends Goal Hurt Party Hell Too Much Fronts Cold Scene Beer Prize Gambling Weekend Hurting You Cold Beer

Author:Brad Renfro

“When I write an email where I outlined a whole scene, it just came out of my unconscious, it comes from a deeper place. The same thing happens when the actors go, take after take, and just get lost in it. When you're in a house, you don't think about being in the house; you're just there.”

Thinking Writing Whole Happens Actors House Lost Scene Deeper Things Happen Unconscious Email

Author:David O. Russell

“Mostly I work really unconsciously, and I think if the scenes are really well written, which they are, and if I just throw myself into it, I don't really think about it.”

Ifs Thinking Wells Written Scene Well Written

Author:Elizabeth Reaser

“I really enjoy the consolation when I'm having to cut loose stuff I love, of saying 'Well, at least it will make it onto DVD.' There's a couple of scenes which I liked very much, but couldn't fit them into the film that are on there.”

Wells Film Stuff Enjoy Cutting Couple Fit Scene Consolation Dvds

Author:Jay Roach

“I've got a very behind-the-scenes personality. I don't know how I became a performer. I like to stay discreet, out of the public eye, very low-key.”

Knows Eye Behinds Know How Keys Personality Scene Lows Performers Behind The Scenes Public Eye Discreet Low Key

Author:Leon Redbone

“So, for the most part, I really like when I read a scene that scares me and makes me sweat a little bit, thinking about doing it. That's usually a good sign to me.”

Thinking Littles Bits Scene Little Bit Scare Sweat

Author:Lily Rabe

“I love Charlie, Billy Burke's character. Writing for him is so spectacular, he's so funny and wry and every scene he's in he just takes. There's a scene in 'Eclipse' where Bella tells him she's a virgin, and it's the funniest, most awkward scene I've ever seen on film.”

Writing Character Film Scene Awkward Virgins Spectacular Charlie Eclipse Wry

Author:Melissa Rosenberg

“I just wrapped 'Eclipse' yesterday and the last scene we shot is probably my favorite thus far. I finally got to tell my story, in a very gentle yet elaborate way.”

Way Stories Lasts Scene Shots My Favorite Yesterday Gentle Eclipse

Author:Nikki Reed

“Well the Bombay film wasn't always like how it is now. It did have a local industry. There were realistic films made on local scenes. But it gradually changed over the years.”

Years Wells Made Film Changed Industry Scene Locals Realistic Bombay

Book:Satyajit Ray: Interviews

Source: Satyajit Ray: Interviews

“I am a writer who works from an outline. What I generally do when I build an outline is I find focal, important scenes, and I build them in my head and I don't write them yet, but I build towards them.”

Writing Important Scene Outlines

Author:Brandon Sanderson

“I used to watch 'Coming to America' every day after school. I have full-on long-running inside jokes with friends and family about different scenes in that movie alone. Also, my brother and I loved 'The Golden Child,' so, yeah: I was a huge fan of Eddie Murphy growing up.”

“I like to try the scene over and over, but given the confines of television, I don't have that option.”

Trying Given Television Scene

Author:John Slattery

“Characters can become boring. That's what's tricky about television. It goes on and on - you're playing this same character for five seasons and it gets easy to fall into just walking on the set and assuming you know how to play a scene.”

Knows Play Character Fall Easy Know How Five Television Goes On Walking Scene Seasons Assuming Boring Tricky

Author:John Slattery

“This career essentially chased me down while I was on the spoken-word scene in New York. I kept hearing that my delivery of my poetry - which was very personal and cathartic at the time- was very moving to folks. People thought that I was an actress because of my delivery, when I was just dropping into the work and really pouring out my soul.”

People Soul Moving Careers New York Scene Folks Hearing Actresses My Soul Dropping Delivery Pouring Spoken Word Cathartic Very Moving

Author:Sonja Sohn

“I just focus on getting the first scene right, with a few lines about the overall plot, and then the book grows organically.”

Firsts Book Grows Lines Focus Scene Plot

Author:Alexander McCall Smith

“25, 30 years ago, that meant something, they were making some money. And they were doing all sorts of comedy, screaming at the audience, basically crowd control. And then there was the whole urban comedy scene.”

Years Whole Audience Comedy Scene Years Ago Crowds Urban

Author:Bob Saget

“Watching the completed version of The Two Towers for example, I was very conscious of scenes - sometimes whole sequences - that I had seen being filmed or edited but which hadn't made it into the final cut.”

Made Two Sometimes Whole Cutting Example Scene Conscious Finals Versions Made It Towers Sequence Edited Two Towers

Author:Brian Sibley

“To this day I over prepare. I draw storyboards for every scene - chicken scratches so crude that they amuse and horrify the crew. I send out shot lists, act out the scenes, and search for a theme that I can relate to. It's my favorite time of the process.”

I Can Process Scene Draws Shots My Favorite Lists Relate Theme Chickens This Day Crew Scratches Crude

Author:Eric Stoltz

“But I've always felt that the less you know about an actor's personal life, the more you can get involved in the story in which he's playing a character. And I don't like to see movies where you know about everything that happens behind the scenes. I can't engage in the story if I know what's going on in the actor's head.”

Ifs Knows I Can Character Stories Happens Actors Felt Behinds Involved Scene Personal Life Get Involved Behind The Scenes

Author:Eric Stoltz

“With most of my books, I'll actually go out and look at the setting. If you describe things carefully, it kind of makes the scene pop.”

Ifs Looks Kind Book Scene Pops Setting Settings

Author:John Sandford

“I had this extraordinarily bizarre moment when, two Fridays ago, my missus gave birth to our second child at 11am and by the same time the following day I was sitting around a table with Ridley Scott, Russell Crowe and Leonardo DiCaprio in Rabat in Morocco, rehearsing a scene we were going to shoot the next day.”

Children Two Moments Next Birth Scene Sitting Tables Following Next Day Bizarre Friday Sitting Around Leonardo Rehearsing Morocco Sitting Around A Table

Author:Mark Strong

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