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“You have to know everything. You have to know how to light a scene. You have to know all this technical stuff about directing. No, you don't. You can know as much or as little as you have to. Your main job is to get great performances and tell the story correctly and capture it correctly. Then it's just basically yours to complicate or simplify as much as you want.”

Knows Want Littles Stories Light Jobs Stuff Know How Scene Performances Capture Simplify Great Performance

Author:Paul Feig

“A majority of the successful women on the pop scene conform to what a woman is supposed to be. Some have tried to get things moving. They have tried to modify the image. But sometimes the image has a hard time changing the eye - to change the relationship between the image and the eye takes longer.”

Sometimes Hard Eye Moving Successful Scene Majority Pops Supposed To Be Hard Times Conform Successful Women

Author:Orlan

“I just find it annoying that in these sequences [of the fight scenes], traditionally, there's music trying to pump you up. I don't like that, personally, as an audience member. This just reflects my taste.”

Trying Fighting Audience Taste Scene Members Annoying Sequence Pumps

Author:Steven Soderbergh

“Various people have put forth that love is the scene of two, that it's not about unity, it's about two absolutely disjunct positions encountering each other. So here, even with something like sex-- what [that song's] about-- you could never become one.”

People Two Sex Love Is Position Scene Unity Various

Author:John Maus

“I love when people improvise as long as they're great improvisers, what I mean by that is people can improvise within their characters and within the scene.”

People Mean Long Character Scene

Author:Scot Armstrong

“There is no such thing as too ordinary to write about, whether that's life or a scene in a novel. What's interesting to people, whether it's memoir or fiction, is the truth.”

People Writing Interesting Fiction Novel Scene Ordinary Memoir

Author:Augusten Burroughs

“Whenever I have to do an emotional scene, I just take my contacts out and it means I can't see anything.”

Mean I Can Emotional Scene Contact

Author:Laurie Holden

“Every actor has three versions of each scene - the one that you rehearse the night before, in your bedroom, the one you actually get to do when you're filming, and then the one you wish you would have done, afterward.”

Done Night Three Actors Wish Scene Versions Bedroom Wish You

Author:Zac Efron

“I'm going to fight for human rights, whether I do it silently behind the scenes or vocally so that I get locked up. I can't just sit back; it's not in my nature. I can't sit back and blindly ignore it, and I won't.”

Humans I Can Fighting Behinds Rights Scene Human Rights Locked Behind The Scenes Locked Up

Author:Elton John

“When you look at the paintings at Chauvet Cave, they're not primitive or like children's little scribbles, it bursts on the scene fully accomplished and when you look through the faces of cultural history, art history, it has never gotten any better.”

Looks Children Littles Art Faces Painting Scene Accomplished Primitive Caves Art History Scribbles

Author:Werner Herzog

“One thing I've learned as an actor as well as a producer is to trust my own instinct. When I first started acting I would sometimes have ideas about certain things, whether it's a scene, or a character or certain dialogue, that wouldn't be followed. I was never in a position to have the power to press the matter. Sometimes it wasn't even about my character. But I'd watch the movie afterwards and think I was right.”

Thinking Firsts Wells Ideas Sometimes Matter Character Certain Actors My Own Acting Watches One Thing Position Scene Presses Instinct Dialogue Producers I've Learned Things I've Learned

Author:Gerard Butler

“I always want another actor to shine in my scene because it makes the film stronger. I would encourage people to scene steal, because filmmaking is a collaborative effort.”

People Want Film Actors Effort Scene Stronger Shining Stealing Filmmaking Collaborative Effort

Author:Vin Diesel

“An age is the reversal of an age: When strangers murdered Emmet, Fitzgerald, Tone, We lived like men that watch a painted stage. What matter for the scene, the scene once gone: It had not touched our lives.”

Men Matter Age Watches Gone Our Lives Stage Scene Stranger Tone Touched What Matters Reversal

Book:The Collected Works of W.B. Yeats Vol II: The Plays

Source: The Collected Works of W.B. Yeats Vol II: The Plays

“I do not want to admit to the world that I can be a bad person. It is just that I don't want anyone to have false expectations. Moviemaking is a harsh, volatile business, and unless you can be ruthless, too, there's a good chance that you are going to disappear off the scene pretty quickly.”

World Want Persons I Can Chance Scene Expectations Disappear Harsh Ruthless Good Chance

Author:Tom Hanks

“Marriage enlarges the Scene of our Happiness and Miseries.”

Marriage Scene Misery

Book:The works of ... Joseph Addison, with notes by R. Hurd

Source: The works of ... Joseph Addison, with notes by R. Hurd

“My passion strengthens daily to quit political turmoil, and retire into the bosom of my family, the only scene of sincere and purehappiness.”

Happiness Political Passion Politics Scene My Family Quitting Sincere Retiring My Passion Bosoms Turmoil Political Turmoil

Author:Thomas Jefferson

“When the course of events shall have removed you to distant scenes of action where laurels not nurtured with the blood of my country may be gathered, I shall urge sincere prayers for your obtaining every honor and preferment which may gladden the heart of a soldier.”

Heart May Country Action Courses Prayer Blood Events Honor Scene Soldier Urges Sincere Obtaining Laurels Sincere Prayer

Author:Thomas Jefferson

“My intention was to write a chapter of the moral history of my country and I chose Dublin for the scene because that city seemed to me the centre of paralysis.”

“It is poverty's speech that seeks us out the most. It is older than the oldest speech of Rome. This is the tragic accent of the scene.”

Poverty Scene Speech Tragic Rome Accents

Book:Selected poems

Source: Selected poems

“There's no such thing as life; or if there is, It is faster than the weather, faster than Any character. It is more than any scene: Of the guillotine or of any glamorous hanging.”

Ifs Life Character Scene Weather Faster Glamorous Guillotine

Book:The Collected Poems of Wallace Stevens

Source: The Collected Poems of Wallace Stevens

“Large department stores, with their luxuriant abundance of canned goods, foods, and clothing, are like the primary landscape and the geometrical locus of affluence. Streets with overcrowded and glittering store windowsthe displays of delicacies, and all the scenes of alimentary and vestimentary festivity, stimulate a magical salivation. Accumulation is more than the sum of its products: the conspicuousness of surplus, the final and magical negation of scarcitymimic a new-found nature of prodigious fecundity.”

“With a full century of contrary proof in our possession and despite our demonstrated capacity for cooperative teamwork, some among us seem to accept the shibboleth of an unbridgeable gap between those who hire and those who are employed. We miserably fail to challenge the lie that what is good for management is necessarily bad for labor; that for one side to profit, the other must be depressed. Such distorted doctrine is false and foreign to the American scene where common ideals and purpose permit us a common approach toward the common good.”

“The artist will have had his revenge for being made to wait, A revenge not only necessary but right and clever-- Simply to leave him out of the scene forever.”

Art Made Artist Waiting Forever Scene Revenge Clever

Book:New and selected poems

Source: New and selected poems

“Morality is a burglar's tool whose merit lies in never being left behind at the scene of the crime.”

Lying Left Behinds Crime Morality Scene Tools Merit Left Behind Burglars

Book:Half-truths & One-and-a-half Truths: Selected Aphorisms

Source: Half-truths & One-and-a-half Truths: Selected Aphorisms

“Being accused of making money by selling sex in Hollywood, home of the casting couch and the gratuitous nude scene, is so rich with irony that it's a better subject for a comic novel than a column.... On one coast the cops are busting sex workers on Eighth Avenue, dragging them downtown to night court where they pay the fine and go right back to their corner; on another they're charging Heidi Fleiss with pandering in a town in which the verb is an art form.”

“My curiosity to see the melancholy spectacle of the executions was so strong that I could not resist it, although I was sensible that I would suffer much from it.... I got upon a scaffold near the fatal tree so that I could clearly see all the dismal scene.... I was most terribly shocked, and thrown into a very deep melancholy.”

Death Suffering Strong Tree Scene Curiosity Thrown Melancholy Sensible Execution Shocked Very Deep

Author:James Boswell

“Trusting as we did to the virtue of the people, the real people, not the politicians and demagogues, we passed through the most responsible and trying scenes, sustained by the bone and sinew of the nation, the laborers of the land, where alone, in these days of Bank rule, and ragocrat corruption, real virtue and love of liberty is to be found.”

People Trying Real Found Nations Liberty Virtue Land Politician Scene And Love Responsible Workers Corruption Bones These Days Laborers

Author:Andrew Jackson

“The scientific observer of the realm of nature is in a sense naturally and inevitably disinterested. At least, nothing in the natural scene can arouse his bias. Furthermore, he stands completely outside of the natural so that his mind, whatever his limitations, approximates pure mind. The observer of the realm of history cannot be disinterested in the same way, for two reasons: first, he must look at history from some locus in history; secondly, he is to a certain degree engaged in its ideological conflicts.”

Way Mind Firsts Looks Two Reason Science Certain Natural History Scene Pure Conflict Degrees Limitation Realms Engaged Bias Observers Ideological Disinterested

Author:Reinhold Niebuhr

“I will promise you that if I can give you two good scenes -- which is what I always try to do in every movie -- then I feel like I'm doing my job.”

Ifs Giving Feels Trying I Can Two Jobs Work Policy Promise Scene Strategy Individuality Ideology

Author:Nicolas Cage

“In Goya's greatest scenes we seem to see the people of the world exactly at the moment when they first attained the title of 'suffering humanity”

People World Firsts Moments Seems Suffering Humanity Scene Titles Goya

Book:A Coney Island of the Mind: Poems

Source: A Coney Island of the Mind: Poems

“Yes, take a little time to play And look at life the other way. God rested when the world was made: Rest now, old friend; be not afraid. But think not that your work is over, That you are now a foot-free rover, A rambler upon idle ways, Whittling away the golden days. For in the road climb to the goal There's no long furlough for a soul. There's no long pause: on every height Another summit swims in sight. The long road rises, scene by scene, With little restings in between.”

Thinking World Way Looks Littles Long Made Soul Play Goal Feet Scene Sight Golden Height Climbs Swim Not Afraid Idle Pauses Summit Old Friends Little Time Long Road Whittling Golden Days

Author:Edwin Markham

“I'm living every ten-year-old boy's fantasy. The other day, Chris and I had this big scene where we had to pull out our guns, and I was thinking, 'Here we are in New York City - a place where every actor wants to be - and we are literally playing cops and robbers. How great is that?'”

Thinking Want Years Bigs Actors Cities Boys Fantasy New York Scene Ten Gun New York City Cop Robbers Cops And Robbers

Author:Mariska Hargitay

“Those who wander in the world avowedly and purposely in pursuit of happiness, who view every scene of present joy with an eye to what may succeed, certainly are more liable to disappointment, misfortune and unhappiness, than those who give up their fate to chance and take the goods and evils of fortune as they come, without making happiness their study, or misery their foresight.”

Source: Complete Works of Frances Burney (Delphi Classics)

“On the day we filmed the scene, a bee stung me. I screamed and cried so much they called a doctor, and my father said, "It can't hurt that badly!" But it wasn't the pain that upset me, it was the thought that I mightn't be in the film. Already the little professional.”

Littles Said Pain Film Actors Father Hurt Acting Scene Ambition Doctors Upset Bees Cried

Author:Natasha Richardson

“In one way an oil boom is a mighty bad thing, because it gets into your blood and almost becomes an obsession. Booms are filled with excitement, adventure, and drama, but sometimes the exit from the scene must be made between suns on a pair of mighty weary feet.”

Way Made Sometimes Success Business Sun Blood Feet Adventure Drama Scene Filled Oil Obsession One Way Excitement Pairs Bad Things Weary Exit

Author:Sue Sanders

“I suppose that Paderewski can play superbly, if not quite at his best, while his thoughts wander to the other end of the world, orpossibly busy themselves with a computation of the receipts as he gazes out across the auditorium. I know a great actor, a master technician, can let his thoughts play truant from the scene.”

“Parenting is not logical. If it were, we would never have to read a book, never need a family therapist, and never feel the urge to call a close friend late at night for support after a particularly trying bedtime scene. . . . We have moments of logic, but life is run by a much larger force. Life is filled with disagreement, opposition, illusion, irrational thinking, miracle, meaning, surprise, and wonder.”

Source: Raising a Daughter: Parents and the Awakening of a Healthy Woman

“Judged by the stark, sure-footed portrait in Hard Time, Brian Azzarello and Richard Corben clearly have John Constantine down, cold and to the life. Azzarellos grasp of pacing, character and situation resonates through every scene with a black crystal clarity thats short of masterful, while Corben contributes what is, perhaps, one of the most darkly expressive pieces in a long, already-legendary career.”

Long Hard Character Black Situation Careers Pieces Cold Scene Clarity Hard Times Judged Portraits Crystals Starks Expressive Legendary Brian Pacing Constantine

Author:Alan Moore

“The House of Lords, architecturally, is a magnificent room, and the dignity, quiet, and repose of the scene made me unwillingly acknowledge that the Senate of the United States might possibly improve its manners. Perhaps in our desire for simplicity, absence of title, or badge of office we may have thrown over too much.”

“When you have Ken Jeong naked next to you when you're doing a scene, it's pretty easy to stay loose.”

Next Easy Scene Naked

Author:Danny Pudi

“As an actor, you think you have to go really far and deep and cry and yell to be good in a scene. Sometimes that's not the point.”

Thinking Sometimes Actors Cry Scene Be Good

Author:Berenice Bejo

“I had to get a driver's license and drive to St. Louis to find the punk-rock scene that was happening there. And there was a punk-rock scene. It was sweet. It was real. It was like everywhere else in the county. It was a handful of people who were feeling the same pull, and, of course, it was like the Island of Misfit Toys in Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer [1964]. Just the freaks, the fags, the fat girls, the unbelievable eccentrics .”

“Actors are journeymen. We show up for work. We do the job and then we go. What goes on behind the scenes is what goes on behind the scenes.”

Shows Jobs Actors Behinds Goes On Scene Behind The Scenes

Author:Joe Mantegna

“I've been inspired by dreams - I've even stolen scenes or images or characters from them.”

Character Dream Scene Inspired Stolen

Author:Neil Gaiman

“I was highly aware, in writing [the book] ROOM, that there are unsavoury aspects to our interest in such cases, and I thought it was rather honester to include discussion of media representation in the novel itself than to cling to the high moral ground by merely avoiding scenes of voyeurism, for instance.”

Writing Book Interest Rooms Moral Cases Novel Media Scene Aspect Instance Discussion Representation Avoiding

Author:Emma Donoghue

“I love that process in which there is no safety net. Then the actor also can allow mistakes, because there's no such a thing as a mistake. You're working with good actors, that thing that starts as a mistake becomes actually the life of what is going to follow in the scene. I find that it is fantastic, and for me it is easier than for the actors.”

Actors Process Mistake Easier Scene Safety Fantastic Good Actors Safety Net

Author:Alfonso Cuaron

“We did something that bands are kind of afraid of, or at least used to be, [which] is the YouTube scene. They don't want the YouTube stigma.”

Want Kind Used Scene Band Used To Be Youtube Stigma

Author:Chrissy Costanza

“Indie rock is very healthy, there's a lot of diversity and a lot of creativity, but it does not have the revolutionary spirit of the late-70s punk scene in regards to design and politics and fashion and stuff like that.”

Doe Spirit Stuff Creativity Rocks Fashion Design Healthy Scene Diversity Late Regard Revolutionary Punk Indie Rock

Author:Bruce Pavitt

“I do read some of the scripts from America and, even though the themes or subject of the film is very interesting, and some of the scenes are very interesting, there is a tendency that they have to explain everything. There will be no dilemma. This guy was evil, and this girl was very sweet. And in the end, we'd have to see eight endings because we'd also have to know what happened to the uncle. It's like, "Are you kidding me?!"”

Knows Ends America Film Guy Girl Evil Interesting Happened Subjects Sweet Scene Scripts Eight Tendencies Theme Uncles This Guy Very Interesting Dilemma This Girl Very Sweet

Author:Mads Mikkelsen

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