“We're creating a TV show of Scrooge, starring Jamie Farr, with Buddy Hackett as Scrooge. We're shooting in this Victorian set for weeks, and Hackett is pissed all the time, angry that he's not the center of attention, and finally we get to the scene where we've gotta shoot him at the window, saying, "Go get my boots," or whatever. The set is stocked with Victorian extras and little children in Oliver kind of outfits, and the director says, "All right, Bud - just give it whatever you want." And Hackett goes off on a rant. Unbelievably obscene.” WantGivingKindChildrenLittlesShowsAttentionWeekTvsSceneDirectorsCreatingWindowAngryShootingExtrasBootsTv ShowsBuddyBudVictorianObsceneOutfitsJamieRantScroogeCenter Of Attention Author:Bill Murray
“[Jack Nash] was very different than anything I'd played. In fact, there's a scene I have in a tent with Louis Ferreira, who just did an episode of Travelers. He was in the fourth episode of Travelers playing another team leader, and we really have it out, not unlike the way we did in the tent in Andromeda.” WayDifferentFactsLeaderTeamSceneFourthEpisodesTravelerTentsTeam LeaderAndromeda Author:Eric McCormack
“[The Lost world] was a learning experience. I remember we were shooting a scene in which I dive out of a boat into a river to save the kid that's in the movie. And there's no mention of a stuntman, and I was like, "No, I'll go in." Nobody questioned. I never asked if maybe there was malaria in the water. And I was wearing these tall boots.” IfsWorldKidsRememberLostWaterSceneRiversBoatShootingTallBootsLearning ExperienceMalariaStuntman Author:Eric McCormack
“I remember I had scenes with Melinda McGraw in "Ides Of March" that I didn't have in "Video Vigilante," but I can't quite picture that other character. But it was Vancouver, and that year was crazy” YearsI CanCharacterRememberCrazySceneVideoMarchVancouverVigilanteIdes Of March Author:Eric McCormack
“Sometimes I make films about scenes other filmmakers would leave out, so I just make the film out of all the things they wouldn't put in. Poetry allows you to do this more than prose, for example.” SometimesFilmExampleSceneFilmmakerProse Author:Jim Jarmusch
“My favorite scene on the show [The Office] is on the booze cruise when I finally get to talk to her and tell her, and I react exactly how I would react by saying nothing.” ShowsSceneOfficeMy FavoriteCruiseBoozeSaying Nothing Author:John Krasinski
“Back in Kansas City, I associated Harvard with sort of gnarly guys who wore capes for effect in a kind of Oscar Wilde scene. Even though I also knew there was such a thing as the Harvard-Yale game, I was still a little surprised that Harvard had a football team. I just assumed if there were such a thing as gay people, that they were nothing like us. Little did I know that probably half the swim team at Yale was gay.” PeopleIfsKnowsKindLittlesStillsGuyGamesCitiesHalfTeamEffectsFootballSceneGaySwimOscarsHarvardGay PeopleFootball TeamKansasYaleCapesWildeKansas CityGnarlySwim Team Author:Kevin Sessums
“I heard I'm going to have scenes with Lady Gaga so I'm hoping it's true. I know of one scene I have.” KnowsHeardSceneGaga Author:Kathy Bates
“Gareth [Edwards] was very open to just shaping the performances and the scenes to fit what was happening with the actors and the storytelling that was emerging.” ActorsFitSceneHappeningsPerformancesStorytellingEmerging Author:Alan Tudyk
“Gareth [Edwards] was very much about including everyone in what we were making, so he would cut together different scenes to show us what we were making. And the crew, cast, everyone would go into a theater there at Pinewood Studios and watch 10 minutes of what we were making. It was always so exciting. It looked amazing, and the music was huge.” DifferentShowsTogetherWatchesCuttingMinutesHugeSceneExcitingTheaterIncludingCastsStudiosCrewIncluding Everyone Author:Alan Tudyk
“Because I'm CGI, [John Swartz] gave me a role of an Imperial pilot in one scene, so I had a day where I was on camera dressed as a black suit and a little cap that they wear.” LittlesBlackRolesSceneCamerasSuitsPilotsCapsCgi Author:Alan Tudyk
“I don't give parties, and I'm not in that social scene. I couldn't care less.” GivingCareSocialPartyScene Author:Debbie Reynolds
“My favorite [costume in collection] is the white dress Marilyn Monroe wore in the subway breeze scene in 'The Seven Year Itch.'” YearsWhiteSceneDressesSevenMy FavoriteCollectionsCostumesBreezeSeven YearsSubway Author:Debbie Reynolds
“From 1940 to about 1960, I had been writing just regular comics, the way my publishers wanted me too. He didn't want me to use words of more than two syllables if I could help it. He didn't want me to waste time on worrying about good dialogue or characterization. Just give me a lot of action, lot of fight scenes.” IfsWayWantGivingWritingTwoHelpingUseActionWantedFightingWorrySceneWasteGive MeDialogueIf I CouldWasting TimeWant MePublishers1960sSyllablesCharacterization Author:Stan Lee
“I really had very little to do with Pierre Trudeau. He was off the scene very soon.” LittlesScene Author:Bob Hawke
“I don't want to give any lines to anybody because otherwise they come out like bricks from their mouths. The important thing is the meaning of the scene, not the words you use, and I prefer that you find your own words to express the scene.” WantGivingImportantUseLinesSceneMouthsImportant ThingsBricks Author:Gaspar Noe
“As an insecure writer, I'll finish a scene and worry there's a better version of it. Or it could be elevated somehow.” WorrySceneVersionsInsecure Author:Bryan Fuller
“I'm always looking for the idea in a scene or the philosophy that makes a scene worth existing beyond exposition.” IdeasPhilosophyScene Author:Bryan Fuller
“I also had Elliot Gould and Martin Short and Nasim Pedrad - let alone Zack Pearlman who is going to be a huge star, as is Seaton Smith - out there and I love writing for them and just sitting back and watching them be excellent. And when you are sitting across from Elliott Gould sharing a scene it just raises your game.” WritingGamesStarsHugeSceneSittingRaisesExcellent Author:John Mulaney
“There's [John Mulaney Show] jokes that I have in stand up that I wouldn't try to put in, I would try to have someone just speak extemporaneously in the middle of a scene about an episode of "Law and Order" or something.” TryingShowsLawOrderSpeakMiddleSceneJokesEpisodesLaw And Order Author:John Mulaney
“I have found myself deeply, deeply intrigued by the ska-punk scene. It's such an expressive form of popular music, it's so real, it's got so much life: it's the most vital music in the world.” WorldRealFormFoundScenePunkIntriguedExpressivePopular Music Author:David Bowie
“Eleanor Roosevelt could easily have told negroes the deceitful maneuvering of the United States government that was going on behind the scenes. She never did it. In my opinion she was just another white woman whose profession was to make it appear that she was on the negro's side. You have a lot of whites who are in this category. Therefore, they have made negro loving a profession.” MadeStatesGovernmentSidesWhiteUnitedBehindsOpinionUnited StatesSceneProfessionCategoriesState GovernmentBehind The ScenesEleanorDeceitfulUnited States Government Author:Malcolm X
“You know when you are doing a movie like [Ted Bundy] you try to as much as you can keep it upbeat when you are not working on the scene, so you cannot totally get disgusted and lost in it and also from my point of view I was ignorant to it all what was kind of going on.” KnowsTryingKindLostViewsScenePoint Of ViewIgnorantDisgustedUpbeatTed Bundy Author:Boti Bliss
“My character [in Ted Bundy] was unaware of all the murders that were being committed by him, so I kind of tried to keep myself out of it and kind of keep an innocent point of view from it. The hard scenes for me were the sex scenes just because there's like sexual deviance going on and there was stuff that he want her to do and that was really disturbing.” WantKindHardCharacterSexStuffViewsSceneMurderCommittedPoint Of ViewInnocentDisturbingTed BundyDeviance Author:Boti Bliss
“I think my favorite scenes [in Night Music] are the ones that kind of happen when the handsome Englishman shows up.. He doesn't quite figure out she is from the 1920s because he doesn't really figure out she is a ghost, because she has manifested into physical form.” ThinkingKindShowsHappensFormNightFiguresSceneMy FavoriteGhostHandsomeEnglishmen Author:Boti Bliss
“I'm in a wonderful position now because the rise of the whole Houston scene, the scene that we've been doing for years that people really didn't embrace a long time ago and now they're embracing it. It's good to be in the middle of that during the uprising.” PeopleYearsLongWholeWonderfulMiddlePositionSceneLong TimeEmbraceLong Time AgoUprisingHouston Author:Chamillionaire
“I was 16 at the time, and I came backstage and started hanging out with them. I said, "Well, maybe you can 'vanish' the silk this way." The opening was a black stage while the "Magic to Do" song started playing. All you saw were hands, lit by Jules Fisher, and then Ben Vereen would appear beyond the hands, and at the end of the scene he would vanish a silk. The spotlight would hit a red spot on the floor where you'd see the silk on the floor. He'd pull the silk out of the floor and it became the entire set coming out of the floor.” WayWellsSaidEndsHandsSongBlackSawsMagicStageSceneRedOpeningSpotsHanging OutComing OutLitSilkSpotlight Author:David Copperfield
“Any music star would be singing about his lost love. A movie would be about a relatable incident; it wasn't an untouchable magic dragon box. It was something that people could relate to, and when I vanished a girl, it would be a story about a girl that left me, or a cutting into pieces would be a date with a magician. I wouldn't just vanish a girl in a shower, I would do the shower scene from Psycho [1960] with a [Alfred] Hitchcock cameo.” PeopleStoriesWould BeGirlLostLeftStarsPiecesCuttingMagicSceneSingingBoxesRelateDragonsLost LoveShowersMagician1960sIncidentsRelatablePsychoHitchcockUntouchablesCameos Author:Judd Apatow
“Ahmadinejad is just a buffoon, sort of a clown on the international scene who tries to be provocative so he can get his name in the paper and his face on television.” TryingFacesNamesTelevisionScenePaperInternationalClownProvocativeBuffoons Author:Jimmy Carter
“We set the actors on the scene through the banal discourse of "conflict" in ways that fully deflect from the history and struggle of colonial resistance, refusing as well by that means to link the resistance to other forms of colonial resistance, their rationale, and their tactics.” WayWellsMeanFormActorsStruggleSceneConflictResistanceLinksDiscourseTacticsRationale Author:Judith Butler
“I reject totally the characterization of a transwoman as a mutilated man. First, that formulation presumes that men born into that sex assignment are not mutilated. Second, it once again sets up the feminist as the prosecutor of trans people. If there is any mutilation going on in this scene, it is being done by the feminist police force who rejects the lived embodiment of transwomen. That very accusation is a form of "mutilation" as is all transphobic discourse such as these.” PeopleIfsMenFirstsDoneFormForceSexBornScenePoliceFeministRejectsDiscourseTransAssignmentsEmbodimentAccusationBeing DoneProsecutorCharacterizationPolice ForceMutilation Author:Judith Butler
“The experience of directing yourself in a sex scene is, in a way, great. It's the fantasy we all have in our lives all the time.” WaySexFantasyOur LivesScene Author:Lena Dunham
“Some of the most amazing stories are happening on the global scene. My extraordinary producing partner, Joslyn Barnes, she's just virtually changed my life with the way she constructed this company and how we go about telling the stories we want to tell.” WayWantStoriesCompanyChangedSceneHappeningsExtraordinaryPartnersChanged My LifeMost Amazing Author:Danny Glover
“The stage is the opposite: you are talking loud so you can project to the back row and you know the whole play. In a movie, you are scene-to-scene; you only know the purpose of that scene. On the stage, that is artistic science. It is real, it is loving, it is truthfully you. It is two different formulas to make two different art pieces, but it is all about truth.” KnowsArtTwoDifferentRealPlayWholePurposeTalkingPiecesStageSceneProjectsOppositesArtisticLoudFormulas Author:Gary Busey
“I was like, I can't believe I get to be in a scene with Meryl Streep [in Florence Foster Jenkins]! And then I was like, but why do I have to play Chopin? It's already going to be intimidating.” BelieveI CanPlaySceneIntimidatingFlorence Author:Simon Helberg
“This word gets overused in describing actors but I think it applies to Mike [Tyson] in this case - he was totally fearless. He jumped in and played with us comedically and improvised a lot. A lot of jokes in those scenes with him are from him improvising.” ThinkingActorsCasesSceneJokesFearlessMikeDescribingImprovisingTysonOverused Author:Ed Helms
“We played around and improvised a ton [in The Hangover], and I think it's hard to say at this point what's what. Gosh, I wouldn't even know how to take a stab at it. The script was so good that we really didn't need to improvise very much, but I think we just found a lot of moments on the set. It's really cool when you get onto the set of a movie and you start shooting the scenes and you start to actually incorporate the environment.” ThinkingKnowsNeedsHardMomentsFoundKnow HowEnvironmentSceneScriptsShootingReally CoolHangover Author:Ed Helms
“I'm working on a script right about Civil War re-enactors who go back in time to the actual Civil War. It's kind of a big, crazy Back to the Future comedy. So, of course, it's the Civil War - I play the banjo. I was just having a conversation with one of the producers about some of the material and he was like, 'You know, we have to work in a scene where you play the banjo. And I was like I'll get behind that.” KnowsKindWarPlayBigsCoursesBehindsComedyCrazyMaterialsLike YouSceneConversationScriptsProducersCivil WarBack In TimeBanjosGo Back In Time Author:Ed Helms
“No one employed [ chaos] better than Jim Henson, by the way, on The Muppets. He had all these chicken Muppets that just brought in the most glorious chaos to whatever scene they were a part of.” WaySceneChaosGloriousChickensEmployedMuppet Author:Ed Helms
“The scene [in The Hangover] where the tiger actually pops up behind us, that's actually a Jim Henson tiger puppet. The Jim Henson Company actually supplied that tiger. And it's really cool. Its entire face moves. It has like all these little motors in its eyebrows and cheeks and mouth. It was amazing.” LittlesFacesMovingBehindsCompanySceneMouthsPopsCheeksTigersEyebrowsMotorReally CoolPuppetsHangover Author:Ed Helms
“There really aren't any deletes [in The Hanover movie]. There's like one or two deleted scenes but they're not important or meaningful scenes.” TwoImportantSceneMeaningful Author:Ed Helms
“This s - t [smoked on scenes] called Wizard Smoke. I didn't like it. [James] Franco didn't have that hard of a time with it. Franco will smoke anything.” HardSceneSmokeWizardsFranco Author:Seth Rogen
“I don't think that any scene [in Pineapple Express] is word for word how you'd find it in the script. Some of it was much more loose than others. The last scene with me, Danny [McBride] and James [Franko] in the diner - there was never even a script for that scene. Usually we write something, but for that scene we literally wrote nothing.” ThinkingWritingLastsSceneScriptsDinersPineapples Author:Seth Rogen
“The scene with Danny [McBride] and the cake and all of that [in the Pineapple Express], most of that is improvised, I would say. But you would never know, to me anyway, and that's what is always amazing.” KnowsSceneCakePineapples Author:Seth Rogen
“I watch a sort of primitive form of the recommodification machine around my friends and myself in sixties, and it took about two years for this clumsy mechanism to get and try to sell us The Monkees. In 1977, it took about eight months for a slightly faster more refined mechanism to put punk in the window of Holt Renfrew. It's gotten faster ever since. The scene in Seattle that Nirvana came from: as soon as it had a label, it was on the runways of Paris.There's no grace period, so that's a way in which I see us losing the interstitial.” WayTryingYearsTwoFormWatchesGraceMonthsPeriodsSceneLosingMy FriendsWindowMachinesSellsEightLabelsFasterParisTwo YearsMechanismPunkPrimitiveSixtyRefinedClumsySeattleRunway Author:William Gibson
“[Robert] Aikman would write horror stories that weren't gore, they weren't slashers, and they weren't monster stories either. He called them ghost stories. The main thing about them was the vibe. It was really disquieting. He wanted to sketch the scene so that you could see it and know the characters and get a feel for the motion - and then ask yourself why and not get a final answer. Leave something that itches. I loved that!” KnowsFeelsWritingCharacterStoriesWantedAsksAnswersHorrorSceneFinalsMonstersGhostGoreGhost StoriesHorror Stories Author:John Darnielle
“I like actors who just become that person and then react, and Adam [Driver] is completely reactive in that way. So every day working with him was really a pleasure. And he's in almost every scene in the film, so the poor guy had to work the - almost the entire 30 days of our film shoot. But, yeah, he was really a pleasure, and I really love what he - how he embodied this character.” WayPersonsCharacterFilmGuyActorsPleasurePoorSceneYeahDriversAdam Author:Jim Jarmusch
“It meant a kind of real liberation of expression. It embraced amateurism in a way that I still am inspired by. It was not about trying to get, you know, stadium gigs or even commercial radio play or even record deals for that matter. It was about saying something 'cause you meant it, and expressing something that you felt. And that was primary for that - whatever the scene, whatever punk rock means, it was very, very important to me, very formative.” KnowsWayTryingKindMeanStillsImportantRealMatterPlayFeltCausesDealsRecordsRocksExpressionSceneInspiredRadioPrimariesLiberationPunkGigsStadiumsPunk RockRadio Plays Author:Jim Jarmusch
“The filmmaker Amos Poe was a huge inspiration for me by making guerrilla-style punk films on the streets of New York and - well, it's just a lot of painters and artists and filmmakers all within that scene, and it's very, very important to me.” WellsImportantInspirationFilmArtistStreetsStyleNew YorkHugeScenePainterFilmmakerPunkGuerrillas Author:Jim Jarmusch
“A scene is never completed, but simply abandoned when the search for perfection is no longer producing positive results.” ResultsScenePerfectionAbandonedPositive Results Author:William P. Perry