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“You have the hilarity and the great production. These films are distinctive because they are not just topical, they tell good stories and they let scenes play out physically. Apart from the dialogue, the characters also have a non-verbal existence, for example with Scrat.”

Play Character Stories Film Existence Example Scene Productions Dialogue Good Story Distinctive Hilarity

Author:John Leguizamo

“I think one of the things you have to be aware of as an actor is that if you come on the set and see the director standing there mouthing all the words while a scene is going on, that's usually a very bad sign because it means the director has already shot the scene in his head. He knows exactly the rhythm and the nuances that he wants delivered in the line and you're not going to dissuade him.”

Ifs Thinking Knows Want Mean Actors Lines Scene Directors Shots Standing Rhythm Nuance Standing There

Author:Dustin Hoffman

“In an ideal world the script is written lean and tight and therefore there are no scenes left on the cuttring room floor and therefore no extended edition.”

World Left Rooms Written Scene Ideals Scripts Ideal World

Author:Peter Jackson

“At Barca, players were banned from driving their sports cars to training. I thought this was ridiculous - it was no one's business what car I drive - so in April, before a match with Almeria, I drove my Ferrari Enzo to work. It caused a scene.”

Sports Player Car Scene Training Ridiculous Driving Working It April Banned Ferrari Sports Cars Barca

Author:Zlatan Ibrahimovic

“The enjoyment of the choicest natural scenes in the country and the means of recreation connected with them is thus a monopoly, in a very peculiar manner, of a very few very rich people. The great mass of society, including those to whom it would be of the greatest benefit, is excluded from it. In the nature of the case private parks can never be used by the mass of the people in any country nor by any considerable number even of the rich, except by the favor of a few, and in dependence on them.”

Source: Frederick Law Olmsted: Writings on Landscape, Culture, and Society

“Visualizing, creative mental picturing, is no more difficult than what you do when you remember some scene out of the past, or worry about the future. Acting out new action patterns is no more difficult than deciding, then following through on tying your shoes in a new and different manner each morning, instead of continuing to tie them in your old habitual way, without thought or decision.”

Source: Psycho-Cybernetics Deluxe Edition: The Original Text of the Classic Guide to a New Life

“People like Howlin' Wolf, Bob Dylan, The Rolling Stones, John Lee Hooker, Nina Simone, Captain Beefheart - all of these artists were what I grew up listening to every day of my life. And there's a very healthy music scene in the west country of England, where I grew up.”

People Country Artist Listening Grew Healthy Scene Grew Up Stones England West Bob Rolling Captains Dylan Rolling Stones Nina Howlin Wolf Captain Beefheart

Author:PJ Harvey

“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.”

Source: The Happiness Hypothesis: Finding Modern Truth in Ancient Wisdom

“Opera is music AND drama. I'm prepared to sacrifice the beautiful note for the meaningful sound any time... I can make a pretty tone as well as anyone, but there are times when the drama of a scene demands the opposite of a pretty sound.”

Wells I Can Beautiful Sound Sacrifice Drama Scene Demand Opposites Notes Prepared Meaningful Tone Opera

Book:Bubbles: an encore

Source: Bubbles: an encore

“I think music changed when Bruce Springstee came on the scene. I think if it wasn't for Bruce Springstee, music would have gone in a very scary direction. We may have gotten to where disco music ruled - and I would've had to quit.”

Ifs Thinking May Gone Changed Scene Scary Quitting Disco Disco Music

Author:Jeff Baxter

“I like songs that are part of a dramatic texture, and therefore I like the scenes to be active. I wanna follow the story and that means you lean on the actors.”

Mean Stories Song Actors Scene Active Dramatic Texture

Author:Stephen Sondheim

“I'm English and I am British. I don't know if I feel part of a music scene. Musically, I have as many feelings and affinity with Americans or Canadians, or all sorts of people as I do with English people.”

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Author:David Gilmour

“There's no real rules about what you do [while directing]; it's just you just use your instincts as to the pacing of a film and what is repetitive and what is the minimum amount you can get away with to tell the story, that scene didn't make it in.”

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Author:Peter Jackson

“As a filmmaker, you are going to manipulate the character as you need to make the scenes work.”

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Author:Peter Jackson

“I am not one of those actors who dwells on the histrionics and the subtext and future text of the character. I deal with the scenes that I'm doing at that specific time, because if I do that, they play in more of a real way.”

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Author:John Barrowman

“I guess the biggest difference from the things I've done in the past is that my work will be more narrative-driven adult films or vignettes, not just "gonzo" scenes, which are straight sex, no storyline.”

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Author:Sasha Grey

“The thing about the state of hip-hop is that people are too concerned. I don't think that there's a problem with being too concerned about videogames, especially for me, because I'm not in the industry. I'm just a consumer. But hip-hop is constantly like, "What are you doing for the scene?"”

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Author:Aesop Rock

“I think the ambiguity of similarity and difference is very powerful. It's the same scene in different times of year read across the grid, and, of course, different locations reading vertically. But you can get confused and lost in the series. You force the mind, which is always comparing and contrasting, to stumble ... That ambiguity is very powerful. One is getting lost and refinding oneself.”

“I personally think that all the scene that you see, love scene, is pretty real, almost 100 percent.”

Thinking Real Scene Percent

Author:Tommy Wiseau

“You must believe in your own instincts and your own instincts at any particular time and believe that they were the right ones for any given situation. So, there's no point ever of kind of regretting something because you can't properly remember the exact circumstances in which you were playing out this particular scene. You have to believe in your intuition and your instinct at that moment.”

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Author:Dominic Cooper

“I do try to plot about a chapter ahead once I get going. I have a list of upcoming scenes with little notes about them. But sometimes the story changes and I don't end up following that.”

Trying Littles Ends Sometimes Stories Scene Notes Following Lists Plot Chapters

Author:Pamela Clare

“I never start editing a film until it's completely shot; I don't edit along the way, ever. When it's finished I come in here [screening room] and we start with reel one, scene one and start editing shot by shot by shot until we're finished.”

Way Film Scene Shots Finished Editing Edits

Author:Woody Allen

“I want every scene to feel electric and I try to finish the filming period with a clear trajectory: a beginning, a middle, and hopefully an end.I hate "fly on the wall." It infers that I don't relate to the people we're with and that I don't get affected by events. I like it when people talk to me. I never say things like "Don't look at the camera" - how bossy!”

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Author:Kim Longinotto

“I think it's very important to get this stuff on film, not just the behind-the-scenes of the process, but also the interviews with the women. We're going to try to do some on-the-street filming, getting people's reactions to the work, and seeing if we can get some street harassment happening on film so people can see what we're talking about. It's important to have some type of documentation so people can see what happens when we create this artwork and why I'm creating it.”

“With me it started as a child, going to the theater and being totally transported but also walking out of the theater thinking I was the protagonist in the film and reenacting the scenes.”

Thinking Children Film Walking Scene Theater Protagonists Walking Out

Author:Oscar Torre

“When I see Puff in a video kissing someone, it's freaky and I know it's freaky for him to see me do a movie love scene, but as far as him forbidding me to do them, that's bull.”

Knows Scene Kissing Video Bulls Puff Movie Love Freaky Kissing Someone

Author:Jennifer Lopez

“I write my novels longhand. I love the feeling of writing; I love to see pen on paper. It feels more creative than typing, and it's a more visual process for me - I can picture the entire scene in my head and am merely writing what I see.”

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Author:Cecelia Ahern

“Jackson doesn't bother to read the scripts anymore. He just checks to make sure he has one loud scene where he gets to shout, then cashes the paycheck.”

Scene Scripts Checks Bother Loud Cash Paychecks

Author:Samuel L. Jackson

“A man is allowed sufficient freedom of thought, provided he knows how to choose his subject properly.... But the scene is changed as you come homeward, and atheism or treason may be the names given in Britain to what would be reason and truth if asserted in China.”

Ifs Knows Men May Reason Would Be Names Given Know How Atheism Subjects Changed Scene China Sufficient Britain Coming Home Freedom Of Thought Treason

Book:Delphi Complete Works of Edmund Burke (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Edmund Burke (Illustrated)

“I never want to feel like the way that I see it isthe only way. Sometimes mistakes happen and that's better than whatyou thought the scene could be. You allow room for the possibilities.”

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Author:Steve Buscemi

“Elvis Presley's death deprives our country of a part of itself. He was unique, irreplaceable. More than twenty years ago, he burst upon the scene with an impact that was unprecedented and will probably never be equaled. His music and his personality, fusing the styles of white country and black rhythm and blues, permanently changed the face of American popular culture. His following was immense. And he was a symbol to people the world over of the vitality, rebelliousness and good humor of this country.”

“The awful scenes of death and suffering we were witnessing on our television screens have been going on in other parts of the world for a long time, and only now can we begin to know what people have gone through, often as a result of our policies.”

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Author:Howard Zinn

“The United States is evil. It has to be brought down, it has to be eliminated from the world scene. They are the ones who have made the world the hell that it is.”

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Author:Bobby Fischer

“Don't be late to the theater. The opening scene is a goody.”

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Author:Sharon Stone

“I love when scenes are intentionally and meticulously planned so we feel like this is a handcrafted scene that only works in this moment and this movie, and that's the way I approach my films.”

Way Feels Moments Film Scene Approach Handcrafted

Author:Justin Simien

“Usually writers are behind the scenes. Like a lot of people don't know that the cat who created Final Destination is a brother, Jeffrey Reddick.”

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Author:Kevin Grevioux

“I decided to work on hand animate because the animators work as authors in every little scene and it brings real soul for characters.”

Littles Real Soul Character Hands Scene Decided Animator

Author:Luiz Bolognesi

“When you write a scene where somebody is afraid of something you instantly go to decades of genre cinema: horror, suspense, and thrillers. Those are very cinematic genres, when you shoot a close-up of someone and you can see fear in the person's face, or anticipation, or some kind of anxiety, it's a very cinematic image.”

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Author:Kleber Mendonca Filho

“Maybe at the core of me, I'm a survivor, but I don't do it on purpose. Sometimes, in acting of course with your performance, some of your own personal character seeps through. My performance goal has always been to perform for the audience. People pay their hard earned money, and so I always desire to give all of myself in every single scene.”

People Giving Sometimes Hard Character Desire Purpose Courses Goal Pay Acting Audience Scene Performances Core Survivor Personal Character

Author:Paula Patton

“I like getting carried away by what is happening and then decide each scene based on the actors, the set and the light.”

Light Actors Scene Happenings Carried Away

Author:Benjamin Avila

“When I listen to my scene partners and listen to their breathing allows me to be connected to them in scenes. I am not trying to multi task, not trying to talk on the phone, but in my character.”

Trying Character Scene Tasks Phones Connected Partners Breathing

Author:Giancarlo Esposito

“It's funny, when you start talking about primitive scenes, so many people have seen their parents having sex.”

People Sex Parent Talking Scene Primitive Having Sex

Author:Gaspar Noe

“I get very close to people when I'm shooting them. We would go and shoot a scene with Lucy, and I would spend the whole time telling her about Rob. Then I would go shoot a scene with Rob and tell him all about Lucy. Eventually they wanted to know each other. These are two people who would never have overlapped in any other way or context. We brought to the garden at Rob's office and just sat and watched what unfolded. I remember weeping behind the camera, because I was so moved by the way they connected.”

People Knows Way Two Whole Wanted Remember Behinds Scene Office Garden Cameras Moved Connected Shooting Sat Weeping Lucy

Author:Abigail Disney

“I shot many scenes of Hamburg, albums full of postcard motifs, and I discarded almost all of them. I ride my bike through Hamburg every day. I go shopping here, I go to the doctor - and yet I no longer have the eye for telling stories about this damn city, even though I love it.”

Stories Eye Cities Scene Shots Doctors Albums Damn Shopping Bike Telling Stories Discarded Postcards Motifs

Author:Fatih Ak?n

“Contradictions, most of all, a balance between chaos and order. It needs neighborhoods vibrating with energy just as much as cozy little corners and parks; well-tended, middle-class sections as well as an alternative scene; technology centers for innovative youth and social facilities for older people.”

“If a scene doesn't work on three levels - it's not advancing the story, the characters, and telling me something new - then put it in the trash.”

Ifs Character Stories Three Levels Scene Something New Trash Advancing

Author:Catherine Hardwicke

“In my experience of doing physical scenes, half of your energy is spent on trying to get the other actor to enter into it physically with you. Most actors don't want to hurt each other.”

Want Trying Actors Energy Hurt Half Scene

Author:Daniel Radcliffe

“The stuff I'm working on is quite dense. I'm seeing every four bars as a scene in a film.”

Film Stuff Four Seeing Scene Bars Dense

Author:Pharoahe Monch

“It always happens around beach resorts, a certain kind of money gravitates to the scene. The gold goes to the water. People love to wear it, show it off, roll with it. For me, I just find it disgusting.”

People Kind Shows Happens Certain Water Scene Gold Beach Disgusting Resorts

Author:Jamie Lidell

“My drawing came out of editorial-style cartoons. Music was one thing and art was another, and there weren't really any standards for my art. My work was just drawings. They weren't done with any aspirations of becoming a part of punk scene. They weren't about punk. They were just collections of drawings, some of which I xeroxed and sold.”

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Author:Raymond Pettibon

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