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“I think as long as there are folks on the fringe who want to make movies, the indie scene will still be around. I do think it's getting harder to get them seen though.”

Thinking Want Long Stills Scene Harder Folks Fringe

Author:Joshua Leonard

“First, you do a piece of material that begins and ends and has a flow; it's not chopped up as in a film, where in an extreme case you might be doing the last scene of the script the first day that you go to work, and you don't know enough about the character you're playing.”

Knows Firsts Ends Enough Character Might Lasts Film Cases Pieces Materials Scene Flow Scripts Extremes

Author:Jean Stapleton

“I have been accused of making people laugh, maybe when it's not appropriate, during scenes.”

People Has Beens Laughing Scene Appropriate Accused Making People Laugh

Author:Jeremy Sumpter

“I take the fact that films cost a lot of money very seriously, but once in a while to have somebody say, This is a big scene, take your time with it, is important. That's John Sayles.”

Important Facts Bigs Film Scene Cost Lots Of Money Take Your Time

Author:Mary Steenburgen

“We've rewritten entire scenes and had them animated twelve hours before the show goes on the air. It's not fun.”

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Author:Matt Stone

“I want to focus on each scene. I'm a real perfectionist, and I don't want to feel like I didn't consider every possible variation of a scene. I come from a theater background, so I'm used to a lot of repetition, and I'm used to really attacking something over and over and over again.”

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Author:Michael Shannon

“It is very, very difficult for a playwright to write a scene in which a young man has his first deep experience of sex with a girl whom he found immensely attractive, is fully satisfied by this event and gets up and blinds a lot of horses.”

Men Writing Firsts Young Girl Found Sex Difficult Events Scene Horse Satisfied Get Up Attractive Young Man Playwright

Author:Peter Shaffer

“I'd like to do the young cadet thing again for sure, but that's why I wanted to do this, to see if I could do it. I took the scenes out of the script and put them together and read them as one little arc, story and that seemed to work.”

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Author:Scott Speedman

“I love having 30 shots of every scene.”

Scene Shots

Author:Stellan Skarsgard

“On an independent film, you really learn about pace. You have so little time to do things, that you really have to know your scenes.”

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Author:Juno Temple

“Never sit staring at a blank page or screen. If you find yourself stuck, write. Write about the scene you're trying to write. Writing about is easier than writing, and chances are, it will give you your way in.”

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Author:Laini Taylor

“The biggest challenge for me has been in coping with my perfectionism. I have a stiflingly hard time moving forward in a project if it's not 'just right' all along the way. The trap I so easily fall into is rewriting and rewriting the same scenes over and over to make them perfect, instead of continuing on into the wild unknown of the story.”

Ifs Way Has Beens Hard Stories Moving Fall Challenges Perfect Scene Projects Moving Forward Hard Times Continuing Traps Coping Perfectionism Rewriting Continuing On

Author:Laini Taylor

“In acting there's two different things: You're either pitching in a scene, or you're catching.”

Two Different Acting Scene Different Things Catching Pitching Two Different Things

Author:Robin Tunney

“There's the movie you write, there's the movie you shoot and the movie you edit, and often, you find that you're getting the same information out of a scene that you already have and a scene that's actually more powerful, so you have to make the tough decision to take it out.”

Writing Decision Powerful Information Scene Tough Edits Tough Decisions

Author:Tate Taylor

“I think there's a lot of things that occur within the African-American community, that we would prefer to stay within the African-American community - that we get a little nervous when you start having scenes or dialogue that we know is going to be viewed and heard on a national or global scale.”

Thinking Knows Littles Community Heard Scene Scales Dialogue Nervous African American

Author:Gabrielle Union

“I'll need every ounce that I have to drive it through. Film and TV require that energy. Sometimes fight scenes can be pretty intense. When I was shooting "Heaven" it was truly guerrilla film-making.”

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Author:Karl Urban

“The music I listen to while writing is really scene-specific. It's just a great motivator, a way to put myself in the mood.”

Way Writing Scene Mood

Author:Jeff VanderMeer

“I've learned a lot about stage-managing for illustration. Sometimes you have to delete characters from a scene just to keep from overcrowding the image. I've also learned to making big-scale design decisions early.”

Sometimes Character Bigs Decision Stage Design Scene Scales I've Learned Illustration Overcrowding

Author:Scott Westerfeld

“I was writing a scene where a guy was choking another guy to death. You can go online and type 'chokeholds' and watch scenes where martial artists choke each other out. You can hear what noises they make when they go unconscious, see how their bodies flop and everything. YouTube is amazing for the more detailed stuff.”

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Author:Daniel H. Wilson

“A song versus an album is not like a scene versus a play.”

Play Song Scene Albums Versus

Author:Dar Williams

“I enjoy the element of pushing yourself, learning something new, whether it's a dance step, a scene, an emotion.”

Enjoy Emotion Steps Scene Elements Pushing Something New Push Yourself Learning Something New Dance 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.”

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Author:Luke Wilson

“To be honest I don't watch the show, I don't watch any TV, so I have no idea what the show is about. I go to Hawaii, shot my scenes and script and 'Ciao.' I'm not a 'Lost' fanatic and it's a disappointment for thousands people and friends that are dying to know what will happen. They know more than me.”

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Author:Sonya Walger

“You know, I just tend to do the scene that I'm given, really. If it really needs it, then I'll go to them and ask 'What's she talking about? What's she referring to?' But often they don't know, or they do know and they're not going to tell me, so I've learned just to work with what I'm given.”

Ifs Knows Needs Asks Given Talking Scene I've Learned Referring

Author:Sonya Walger

“I like documentaries because there's nothing to nitpick or criticize about scenes if they aren't just right. It's about honesty and real-life circumstances coming out. Granted it can be swayed by how people tell that story, but overall, I like it because it is true.”

People Ifs Real Stories Honesty Circumstances Scene Real Life Granted Criticize Coming Out Documentaries

Author:Steven Yeun

“You know the stories of a woman saying to Churchill, 'Sir, you're drunk,' and he said to her, 'And you're ugly, but in the morning I'll be sober.' I was really excited to do that scene, but I did get slapped.”

Knows Said Stories Morning Scene Excited Ugly Drunk Sober

Author:Thomas Howes

“There are times when I want to be plainspoken about my feelings in a song. But there are other times when it's really good to try and get my head around different kinds of song structures, or maybe I might get turned on by trying to write a song that would fit in this one scene in a movie. And by the end of all this, you just end up with a bunch of different ideas. And songs are really just ideas.”

Want Writing Trying Kind Ideas Different Ends Feelings Might Song Fit Scene Structure Bunch Different Kinds Different Ideas

Author:Ryan Adams

“I was interning at a children's theater group in Kentucky - that was my first job out of college. I had jumped around a couple of regional theaters, and I was about to go back to Maine to work at a summer Shakespeare theater there. I didn't want to just jump around the country from gig to gig. I really wanted to go to a city and get involved in a theater scene and a theater community.”

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Author:Timothy Simons

“From the moment I stepped foot in Music City I have had a love affair with the people and burgeoning culinary scene. This city's long, highly-respected cultural history, coupled with the recent growth and development is inspiring. I could not be happier with my decision and I'm truly excited to call Nashville my home.”

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Author:Maneet Chauhan

“On the stage . . . masks are assumed with some regard to procedure; in everyday life, the participants act their parts without consideration either for suitability of scene or for the words spoken by the rest of the cast: the result is a general tendency for things to be brought to the level of farce even when the theme is serious enough.”

Source: A Question of Upbringing: Book 1 of A Dance to the Music of Time

“And in the middle of one of those scenes, I suddenly felt my heart just open: it was overwhelming, to the point where I got teary-eyed. Never would I have thought anything like that could happen in a love scene.”

Heart Happens Felt Middle My Heart Scene Overwhelming

Author:Sheryl Lee

“You always hear actresses talk about how unromantic it is to act a love scene or a sex scene - which it is. You're doing it with all these lights on and cameras flying around and people on the set.”

People Light Sex Scene Cameras Actresses Flying

Author:Sheryl Lee

“I'm sure every film it's going to be like, 'Okay, this is the scene where your shirt gets ripped off.' I'll never be able to keep my shirt on.”

Able Film Scene Okay Shirts Ripped

Author:Alex Meraz

“In terms of a narrative nonfiction book, when you're describing scenes that you have multiple sources for, and that you have differing sources for, and you decide to choose a path that puts all that information together, well yeah, there's definitely going to be a little bit of the author in that. But there's nothing wrong with that.”

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Author:Ben Mezrich

“The real rulers in Washington are invisible, and exercise power from behind the scenes.”

“I've worked with actors who treat the first two takes like rehearsals. And that's okay. If the camera is on you and we're doing a scene where I'm off camera, I'm treating that as a rehearsal.”

Ifs Firsts Two Actors Scene Okay Treats Cameras Rehearsal

Author:Alfred Molina

“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.”

Ifs Thinking Knows Feels Matter Play Moments Audience Scene Very Good That Moment Radar

Author:Carey Mulligan

“The storyboard artists job is to plan out shot for shot the whole show, write all the dialog, and decide the mood, action, jokes, pacing, etc of every scene.”

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Author:Craig McCracken

“I'm a spoilt brat. I thought I was just going to walk in and make movies. But I'd been my own boss for so long that all of a sudden to be facing a roomful of people who were niggling over every little scene... I just thought I'd go back and draw my comics and have a happy life.”

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Author:Frank Miller

“Sometimes fake laughing is hard once you’ve done a scene 18 times. I don’t want to brag, but I have a reputation for being very, very good at that. It’s funny finding what’s challenging about acting as you go.”

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Author:Allison Williams

“All I can say is that with 'The Golden Compass,' I didn't get to make the movie I had planned to make. When I look at the film, at the casting and certain scenes, I'm very happy. As for the final product, I can't vouch for that.”

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Author:Chris Weitz

“I write on a visual canvas, 'seeing' a scene in my thoughts before translating it into language, so I'm a visual junkie.”

Writing Language Seeing Scene Visuals Translate Canvas My Thoughts Junkie

Author:Marianne Wiggins

“I come to work on time. I focus on my job. I bust my scenes out and everything else kind of happens from there.”

Kind Happens Jobs Focus Scene

Author:Michael K. Williams

“If they're working in a workshop somewhere, where there is, let's say, uh... only twenty people, or something like that, that's still, when they work and do a scene, that's still working in front of somebody.”

People Ifs Stills Fronts Scene Twenties Workshops

Author:Ray Walston

“To make it more familiar to me, I ended up treating my swordplay scenes like choreography. So it was, 'One and two and three and four and five, and turn and step and down and up and lunge.”

Two Turns Three Steps Five Four Scene Down And Familiar Choreography

Author:Catherine Zeta-Jones

“I'm always saying that my books are not autobiographical because they're not. I can't choose any one scene and say, 'Oh, this is exactly what happened to me!' I just use little snippets of things as a starting point!”

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Author:Cecily von Ziegesar

“I like to tell students, 'I didn't burst on to the literary scene.' I'm never good at things at the beginning. I was terrible at the start. I need to work and work.”

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Author:Markus Zusak

“When I watch a movie for the first few times I'm usually thinking about where I was in a given scene, who was next to me, what we were doing etc. But after I've gotten through all of this, when I'm really watching the film itself, then I get moved.”

Thinking Firsts Film Next Given Watches Scene Moved Etc

Author:Zhang Ziyi

“All of the disparate books on my list contain characters, scenes or voices that linger long past the last page of their stories.”

Long Book Character Stories Lasts Past Voice Scene Pages Lists

Author:Maureen Corrigan

“Walking up to the Whisky some guys said to me 'the Scene is dead. Stop wearing makeup faggot!' All I could do was smile and think about the BVB Army and the legions of dedicated fans BVB has. I will wear my warpaint proudly, thank you very much! Seriously love you all.”

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