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“Adam Ezra writes with the heart of a troubadour and sings like a rock star. He is truely a fresh voice in singer/songwriter scene.”

Writing Heart Stars Voice Rocks Scene Singers Adam Songwriters Rock Star Singer Songwriters Troubadours

Author:Catie Curtis

“I learned a valuable lesson doing 'Mr. Sunshine,' which is that I didn't want to be in charge because it's too much. Being in charge and acting in every scene was just too difficult. It's like eating dinner in a moving golf cart every night.”

Want Moving Night Difficult Acting Too Much Lessons Scene Eating Golf Valuable Dinner Sunshine Every Night Carts Valuable Lessons Eating Dinner Golf Carts

Author:Matthew Perry

“In general, I don't like game mechanics, I mean it's the idea you do the same things through different levels. I think, in my mind, it's an ideas I don't really like because I love to do different things and like to see the story moving on and I like to do different things and different scenes, not do the same thing over and over again. If it involves violence at some point fine, if it makes sense in the context. But violence for the sake of violence, it doesn't mean anything to me anymore.”

Ifs Thinking Mind Mean Ideas Different Stories Moving Games Levels Violence Fine Scene Sake Make Sense Different Things Mechanic Different Levels

Author:David Cage

“Cut like crazy. Less is more. I've often read manuscripts - including my own - where I've got to the beginning of, say, chapter two and have thought: “This is where the novel should actually start.” A huge amount of information about character and backstory can be conveyed through small detail. The emotional attachment you feel to a scene or a chapter will fade as you move on to other stories. Be business-like about it.”

Feels Should Two Character Stories Moving My Own Novel Cutting Crazy Information Emotional Huge Amount Scene Including Details Attachment Fades Chapters Manuscripts Less Is More Small Details

Author:Sarah Waters

“Running my show is really like an actor being in repertory but where, in one day in one performance, you do scenes from a drama, a farce, a low comedy and a tragedy.”

Shows Running Actors Comedy Drama Scene One Day Lows Performances Tragedy Farce

Author:Dick Cavett

“Is the scene always visual? It can be aural, the frame can be linguistic: I can fall in love with a sentence spoken to me: and not only because it says something which manages to touch my desire, but because of its syntactical turn (framing), which will inhabit me like a memory.”

I Can Desire Turns Fall Memories Scene Falling In Love Sentences Manage Visuals Framing

Book:A lover's discourse: fragments

Source: A lover's discourse: fragments

“I'd like to do a story about the medieval ages where in every scene you'd sort of feel that you were in the 12th century. That would be great to get that feeling.”

Feels Stories Feelings Would Be Age Century Scene Medieval

Author:Oliver Stone

“It is no accident that I mention our American friends, as they are always influencing our relations with our neighbors either directly or behind the scenes. Sometimes you don't even know who to talk to - the governments of certain countries or directly to their American patrons.”

Knows Country Sometimes Government Certain Behinds Influence Scene Relation Accidents Neighbor Behind The Scenes Patron

Author:Vladimir Putin

“The sound of the freezing of snow over the land seemed to roar deep into the earth. There was no moon. The stars, almost too many of them to be true, came forward so brightly that it was as if they were falling with the swiftness of the void. As the stars came nearer, the sky retreated deeper and deeper into the night color. The layers of the Border Range, indistinguishable one from another, cast their heaviness at the skirt of the starry sky in a blackness grave and somber enough to communicate their mass. The whole of the night scene came together in a clear, tranquil harmony.”

Source: Snow Country

“Coming from a technology background, I mostly worked behind the scenes or let the men take the lead. I had to learn to assert myself, communicate and be heard. I made sure that once I had my voice, I spoke for those who didn't - especially women.”

Men Made Voice Behinds Technology Heard He Man Scene Communicate Backgrounds Spokes Behind The Scenes

Author:Regina Agyare

“I just can't believe that anyone would start a band just to make the scene and be cool and have chicks. I just can't believe it.”

Believe Scene Band Chicks Being Cool

Author:Kurt Cobain

“It didn't matter as much because I'm a singer, not an actress, but my face is more acceptable in a way now than when I first came on the scene, because I'm part black.”

Way Firsts Matter Faces Black Scene Actresses Singers Acceptable

Author:Carly Simon

“The love we most cherish will, of necessity, bring us pain. Because that love is like the setting of a body with broken bones. But I want to stage the setting. I want to direct all scenes.”

Want Body Pain Love Is Stage Broken Scene Direct Bones Setting Settings Cherish Love Is Like Broken Bone

Book:Divine secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood: a novel

Source: Divine secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood: a novel

“I don't hold to the idea that God causes suffering and crisis. I just know that those things come along and God uses them. We think life should be a nice, clean ascending line. But inevitably something wanders onto the scene and creates havoc with the nice way we've arranged life to fall in place.”

Thinking Knows Way Should Ideas Use Suffering Fall Causes Lines Nice Scene Crisis Clean Wander Havoc Ascending

Author:Sue Monk Kidd

“I never do any television without chocolate. That's my motto and I live by it. Quite often I write the scripts and I make sure there are chocolate scenes. Actually I'm a bit of a chocolate tart and will eat anything. It's amazing I'm so slim.”

Writing Bits Television Scene Scripts Live By Chocolate Motto Slim My Motto Tarts Funny Chocolate

Author:Dawn French

“I always knew I wanted to be in front of the camera. But even after 10 years behind the scenes at CBS News producing live segments, celebrity profiles, and breaking news, I still hadn't been given the chance to be on TV.”

Years Stills Wanted Given Chance Behinds Fronts Tvs Scene News Cameras Profile Behind The Scenes Breaking News

Author:Andy Cohen

“I love it when characters surprise you, just like real people. When I write a scene I just try to make the characters behave in a way that feels natural to them. Sometimes that means they make a left turn and do something unexpected. Those are always the best scenes in my opinion.”

People Way Feels Writing Trying Mean Real Sometimes Character Turns Left Natural Opinion Scene Surprise Behave Unexpected Something Unexpected

Author:Brad Falchuk

“Good impro can make you laugh, we love it, but soon the content is forgotten. Good scenes from The Life Game stay with you always. They haunt you.”

Games Laughing Scene Forgotten Make You Laugh

Author:Keith Johnstone

“The stories we sit up late to hear are love stories. It seems that we cannot know enough about this riddle of our lives. We go back and back to the same scenes, the same words, trying to scrape out the meaning. Nothing could be more familiar than love. Nothing else eludes us so completely.”

Knows Trying Enough Stories Seems Our Lives Scene Late Love Story Familiar Riddle Elude Elude Us Meaning Nothing

Author:Jeanette Winterson

“I don't particularly like the idea that there's an arc to the story and that therefore in this scene you have to convey this bit of information or emotion. I like more the feeling that, of course, there is a shape to the story, but that each scene should feel right, should be true at that moment, and that gradually you accumulate these moments of truth until you get enough of them together that it becomes a story that's interesting.”

Feels Should Ideas Enough Moments Stories Feelings Together Courses Bits Interesting Emotion Information Scene Shapes Being True That Moment Arcs Feels Right Moment Of Truth

Author:Michael Winterbottom

“Men, permitted to put words (and other things) in women's mouths, create scenes in which women desperately want to be bound, battered, tortured, humiliated, and killed.”

Men Want Scene Mouths Bounds Humiliated Battered

Book:Feminism Unmodified: Discourses on Life and Law

Source: Feminism Unmodified: Discourses on Life and Law

“I know publishing now more as an author than with occasional peaks inside those elite offices than as an industry insider. It was difficult publishing a novel the first time around, while working behind the scenes, knowing all that has to happen to make a book a success and to still make the leap as an author.”

Knows Firsts Stills Book Happens Difficult Behinds Novel Knowing Industry Scene Office First Time Leap Elites Publishing Occasional Behind The Scenes Insiders Working Behind The Scenes

Author:Jennifer Gilmore

“I feel like L.A. is more of a showcase, and Chicago is a pure comedy scene where you're doing comedy for comedy. You're doing comedy actually for the audience that's there.”

Feels Audience Comedy Scene Pure Chicago Showcase

Author:Jake M. Johnson

“There is a very vibrant cultural scene in Stockholm. There are lots of places where there are concerts, and there are loads of museums and theaters.”

Scene Theater Museums Concerts Load Stockholm

Author:Bjorn Ulvaeus

“War scenes are less difficult than love scenes.”

War Difficult Scene

Author:Jean-Jacques Annaud

“I think there are a lot more relationship scenes in my movies that people tend to overlook. A lot of scenes really feel real and are about the characters.”

People Thinking Feels Real Character Scene

Author:Jan de Bont

“I love TV. I know all the theme songs from the shows I watch. I'm not one of those who'd rather be a movie star. I prefer TV because of the rushed way of working-on a movie set, you sit around and wait and wait to do a scene because they're adjusting the lights.”

Knows Way Shows Light Song Stars Waiting Watches Tvs Scene Theme Movie Star Adjusting Movie Sets

Author:Dana Hill

“Language cannot describe the scene that followed; the shouts, oaths, frantic gestures, taunts, replies, and little fights; and therefore I shall not attempt it.”

Littles Fighting Language Scene Gestures Oath Frantic Taunting

Book:Georgia Scenes

Source: Georgia Scenes

“I like to give dimension to shots inside action scenes. It's demanding because you have to rehearse a lot of things happening at the same time and frame all those things in a shot. But I feel like when you accomplish that then you've got a cool action scene.”

Giving Feels Action Scene Happenings Shots Accomplish Things Happen Dimensions

Author:Jose Padilha

“Doolittle was a major influence on the Seattle grunge scene, which emerged in the early 1990s.”

Influence Scene Majors Seattle Grunge

Author:Joey Santiago

“place where man laughs, sings, picks flowers, chases butterflies and pets birds, makes love with maidens, and plays with children. Here he spontaneously reveals his nature, the base as well as the noble. Here also he buries his sorrows and difficulties and cherishes his ideals and hopes. It is in the garden that men discover themselves. Indeed one discovers not only his real self but also his ideal self?he returns to his youth. Inevitably the garden is made the scene of man's merriment, escapades, romantic abandonment, spiritual awakening or the perfection of his finer self.”

“The sense of smell can be extraordinarily evocative, bringing back pictures as sharp as photographs of scenes that had left the conscious mind.”

Mind Left Memories Scene Conscious Photograph Smell Conscious Mind

Book:The Gardening Year

Source: The Gardening Year

“But when you first embark on the Path, your awareness won't be focused. You're likely to see all sorts of strange, dreamlike scenes. But you shouldn't doubt that all such scenes come from your own mind and nowhere else.”

Mind Firsts Path Doubt Awareness Strange Scene Focused

Book:The Zen Teaching of Bodhidharma

Source: The Zen Teaching of Bodhidharma

“Ethical and moral questions and how we answer them may determine whether primal scenes will continue to be a source of joy and comfort to future generations. The decisions are ours and we have to search our minds and souls for the right answers... We must be eternally vigilant, embrace the broad concept of an environmental ethic to survive.”

“I think you never want to have to go into the scene having to improvise; you want to make sure its working on the page. But I do like to have the ability to try stuff just in the moment, to give it some sort of spontaneity.”

Thinking Want Giving Trying Moments Stuff Ability Scene Pages Spontaneity

Author:Ben Stiller

“Years of live storytelling and character acting have helped me with building vivid locations and scenes.”

Years Character Acting Building Scene Storytelling Location Vivid

Author:David Crabb

“My philosophy is that the people around us are there doing as much work if not more work behind the scenes and they're the last people you would ever be unkind to, so I hope I'm not a diva off stage.”

People Ifs Philosophy Lasts Behinds Stage Scene Unkind Behind The Scenes

Author:Renee Fleming

“Sometimes people can write really great scenes and even a great episode, but they can't see the bigger picture.”

People Writing Sometimes Scene Bigger Episodes Really Great Bigger Picture

Author:M. Night Shyamalan

“I love action. I love doing fight scenes, I always have.”

Action Fighting Scene

Author:Kit Harington

“If you give a scene enough room to breathe, actors will hopefully find those magical moments.”

Ifs Giving Enough Moments Actors Rooms Scene Breathe Hopefully Magical Moments

Author:Greg Bryk

“I love Jon Hamm. I'm so lucky to get to work with him and work so closely with him. We have a lot of these scenes that are very intimate, and very tender. Those are the kind of things that an actor lives for. Real moments of connection with other actors.”

Kind Real Moments Actors Scene Lucky Connections Intimate So Lucky

Author:Jessica Pare

“There are scenes that were right on the edge, but I always try to err on non-indulgence. It's something that I'm very careful about, that I'm just leaning too hard into something.”

Trying Hard Scene Edges Careful Indulgence

Author:M. Night Shyamalan

“As a director, I like trying to unlock the subtext of the scene and try to put the camera in a place that helps that.”

Trying Helping Scene Directors Cameras Subtext

Author:David Brooks

“It makes it easier, if you can't do an American accent. I don't know. It's different. I played a character in Never Let Me Go where the script for my character was very sparse, and I enjoyed it. With Never Let Me Go, I had a whole book written from my character's point of view, so I always knew where I was. But, with Ryan [Gosling], it was just easy. He's such a brilliant actor and he is so prepared. He doesn't have to warm himself up to be in a scene. He's just in it. It draws you in, in a way.”

Ifs Knows Way Book Different Whole Character Actors Easy Views Written Easier Scene Draws Let Me Prepared Scripts Warm Point Of View Brilliant Enjoyed Accents Let Me Go Never Let Me Go

Author:Carey Mulligan

“I love the beginning of Magnolia, the thing about the dealer. That scene is genius. Brilliantly acted.”

Genius Scene Dealer Magnolias

Author:Patton Oswalt

“I'm just aware of what I'm thinking and feeling but I do obviously have to get that to the back of the auditorium. So there are things like projection and filling the room, and not dropping the ends of lines - technical things which are important, but I don't think they change the way I feel in a scene.”

Thinking Way Feels Important Ends Feelings Lines Rooms Scene Filling Projection Dropping Auditoriums

Author:Bill Nighy

“There’s a great scene in The Texas Chain Saw Massacre [1974] that I’m obsessed with: Sally is being chased by Leatherface with a chainsaw... And she runs into thorn bushes. And she’s getting tangled up in it because she’s running fast... But Sally needs to move slowly in order to get through the bushes - she will get farther faster by going slowly because her hair and clothes won’t get tangled and caught. There’s something really beautiful about understanding that, while someone’s chasing you with a chainsaw, you have to move more slowly in order to get away.”

Needs Running Beautiful Moving Order Understanding Saws Hair Scene Clothes Caught Chains Faster Obsessed Get Away Texas Chasing Tangled Massacres Really Beautiful Chainsaw Running Fast

Author:Christopher Bollen

“When people embrace character, it informs their living, breathing moments in a scene so well.”

People Wells Moments Character Scene Embrace Breathing

Author:Nathan Fillion

“I love not feeling this hydraulic pressure that you have to create this comic moment within every scene. You can just play it as it is.”

Play Moments Feelings Scene Pressure Comic

Author:Donal Logue

“I think movie making can sometimes make you lazy in your approach. Occasionally you'll be shooting a scene and it's not even your coverage but you'll catch yourself slipping away and you'll see your mind going somewhere else. But you just can't afford to do that on stage.”

Thinking Mind Sometimes Stage Scene Approach Shooting Lazy Somewhere Else Coverage Slipping Movie Making Slipping Away

Author:Jamie Bell

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