“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.” ImportantFactsBigsFilmSceneCostLots Of MoneyTake Your Time Author:Mary Steenburgen
“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.” SometimesCharacterBigsDecisionStageDesignSceneScalesI've LearnedIllustrationOvercrowding Author:Scott Westerfeld
“My one big regret was that there were no scenes that I could play with Eva Marie Saint. I hounded them. I said figure out some way, I just want to play a scene with this woman. But there was no way to make it work.” WayWantSaidPlayBigsFiguresRegretSceneSaintMarie Author:Jessica Lange
“Throw away those little pieces of paper. Get yourself a big, beautiful canvas. Bring from this nature the most beautiful colors. Find the serene scene within. Find the joy in each corner of your life. Sit still and feel what is within you. Sit still and paint like you have never painted before.” FeelsLittlesStillsBigsBeautifulJoyPiecesColorLike YouScenePaperPaintCornersWithin YouCanvasRenewalSereneBeautiful Colors Author:Prem Rawat
“I thought Big Sur would be a great break after the tour. You'd walk down this rickety ladder to this not-very-pretty beach scene; crashing waves, moss-covered rocks, weird ocean life. It was scary. It summed up alot of things in my life, like 'I should be enjoying this, but I'm not.” InspirationalShouldBigsWould BeEnjoyWalksBreakRocksSceneOceanWaveScaryBeachCoveredLaddersMossBig SurCrashing Waves Author:Trent Reznor
“If I had written King Lear, I would regret it all my life afterwards. Because that work is so big, that its defects show as huge, its monstrous defects, things even minimal in between some scenes and their possible perfection. It's not the sun with spots; it's a broken greek statue.” IfsShowsBigsSunWrittenRegretHugeBrokenKingsScenePerfectionSpotsGreekDefectsStatuesMonstrousLear Author:Fernando Pessoa
“Going out is such a hassle. The singles club scene where you sit down, talk, get to know each other, hang out-it's such a big ordeal.” KnowsBigsSceneClubsHanging OutGoing OutSinglesOrdealsHassle Author:Brian Austin Green
“Trust is always a factor. You've just got to look at the big picture, and you've got to look at the small picture - the small picture in the sense that you've got to make every scene work and you've got to deal with what people are presenting you with, too.” PeopleLooksBigsDealsSceneFactorsPresentingBig Picture Author:Willem Dafoe
“A lot of times, writers are told write as big as you can, and that's not untrue. But at times I think it's better to write as small as you can, to start scenes with little personal details or people who are doing average every day human things. That, to me, lets the average reader into that person's life. "Yeah I eat breakfast. I take a shower."” PeopleThinkingWritingHumansLittlesPersonsBigsReaderSceneYeahAverageDetailsBreakfastShowersUntrue Author:Don Winslow
“I don't believe in a perfect world. I don't believe it's achievable, and I believe the people who try to achieve it usually end up turning it into something like Cambodia or something very similar because purity tests set in. Are you ideologically pure enough to be allowed to live? Well, it turns out that very few people are, so you end up with a big powerful struggle and a mass killing scene.” PeopleWorldTryingBelieveWellsEndsEnoughBigsTurnsI BelievePerfectPowerfulStruggleAchieveScenePureMassTestsKillingDon't BelievePurityLive WellA Perfect WorldCambodia Author:Margaret Atwood
“There's always that jumping off place when you're doing a sex scene when you can tell the crew's like, 'OK, it's comin'. At this point, it's actually not a big deal.” BigsSexDealsSceneCrewJumpingBig DealJumping Off Author:Taylor Schilling
“Music is pretty intimate stuff and I can only work with very few people: Gonzalez being one, Mocky being another and, on a completely different level, Broken Social Scene. With Broken Social Scene its not one-on-one, its a one-on-12. Its very healthy, very comfortable, like a big pot luck supper among old friends.” PeopleI CanDifferentBigsSocialStuffLevelsBrokenHealthySceneComfortableMusic IsLuckIntimatePotOld FriendsSupperDifferent LevelsOne On One Author:Feist
“The first things I remember drawing were battles - big sheets of paper covered in terrible scenes of carnage - though when you looked closely there were little jokes and speech bubbles and odd things going on in the background.” FirstsLittlesBigsRememberTerribleSceneBattleSpeechPaperJokesDrawingBackgroundsOddCoveredBubblesSheetsCarnageOdd Things Author:Anthony Browne
“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?'” ThinkingWantYearsBigsActorsCitiesBoysFantasyNew YorkSceneTenGunNew York CityCopRobbersCops And Robbers Author:Mariska Hargitay
“The most I've ever done was twenty-something, but that's wasn't because I wanted to. I feel like to me it's usually somewhere between two and- no, it's very hard to say because it really depends up on the shot, you know? If it's a complicated master shot and you know that this is the only thing that you're doing for that scene, a complicated one-er, you're going to maybe end up doing a few more takes than you normally would. But I'm not a big believer in doing tons and tons and tons of takes.” IfsKnowsFeelsTwoEndsHardDoneBigsWantedMastersDependsSceneShotsTwentiesComplicatedBelieverTwenty Somethings Author:Stanley Tucci
“Well, the whole trick to doing an independent film, is to keep great pace and momentum. You're shooting maybe three times as many scenes in one day that you would on a big, luxurious budget on a luxurious schedule, and you try not to sacrifice quality for that. Things are just compressed, but essentially the same.” TryingWellsWholeBigsFilmThreeQualitySacrificeSceneOne DayIndependentTricksShootingBudgetsPaceSchedulesThree TimesMomentumIndependent FilmLuxurious Author:Kevin Kline
“I often don't like seeing how different things are made. I'm not a big fan of behind the scenes stuff.” MadeDifferentBigsStuffBehindsSeeingFansSceneDifferent ThingsBehind The Scenes Author:Jason Gann
“I'm getting so old - it's more uncomfortable to do those scenes now than when I was 20. I mean, I don't have a big problem with nudity on screen. But usually the days when you do those naked love scenes are the weirdest ones on set. Everyone is uncomfortable. You're like, 'Hi. How are you?' Then the next minute you're with an actress who you don't know and you're pretending to make love to her in front of all the crew. The acting challenge is pretending things are OK.” KnowsMeanProblemBigsNextChallengesActingMinutesFrontsSceneActressesScreensNakedUncomfortablePretendingMaking LoveCrewNudityBig Problems Author:Javier Bardem
“Everything is important, but there is a weight to these big or expected things and then there is the logistics of them and it's trying to find, while you worry about for instance the ballroom scene, how do you get 500 people to go to the loo in corsets and don't cost you an hour and how do you remember while you're organizing all that to take a breath and say, 'Well the scene is about all of that and it's about Prince hand on the small of Cinderella back as well' and we need time to do that properly as well.” PeopleNeedsTryingWellsImportantHandsBigsRememberHoursWorrySceneCostWeightBreathsExpectedInstanceTime Of NeedBallroomLogisticsCorsets Author:Kenneth Branagh
“I think the truth is the Marvel fiefdom exists very independently inside the Disney world, inside the Disney universe. They're not resistant to that kind of thing but they have their, you know there is a whole sort of machine energy and momentum that is the sort of creative drive behind the whole universe that has a big impact on the individual films. I'm glad those scenes got out there. And we've got a few interesting deleted scenes on this.” ThinkingKnowsWorldKindWholeBigsFilmUniverseIndividualEnergyInterestingBehindsCreativeTruth IsSceneMachinesImpactGladMomentumBig Impact Author:Kenneth Branagh
“The way our big cities change sucks. The beauty of cities was that they were edgy, sometimes even a little dangerous. Artists, poets, and activists could come and unify and create different kinds of scenes. Not just fashion scenes, scenes that were politically active. Big cities are getting so high-end oriented, business corporate fashion, fashion not in an artistic sense but in a corporate sense. For me that edgy beauty of cities is lost, wherever you go.” WayKindLittlesDifferentEndsSometimesBigsArtistLostCitiesFashionDangerousPoetSceneActiveArtisticCorporateActivistDifferent KindsEdgyBig Cities Author:Patti Smith
“Literally, the piece at the end is where the universe is cracked apart, it's a big moment. Basically, they, the filmmakers, have directed the story earlier in the book. It happens, it's called adapting a book, you have to make decisions about things. It's not unusual having to cut out scenes.” BookEndsMomentsStoriesBigsHappensUniverseDecisionPiecesCuttingSceneFilmmakerUnusualCrackedAdapting Author:Daniel Craig
“Like behind the car or in the pub, to do a scene, a proper nice dramatic scene, it's always a treat. And they're usually shot as one, so you've got a big chunk of dialogue to learn, and you feel like you're working.” FeelsBigsBehindsNiceCarLike YouSceneShotsTreatsDialogueDramaticChunksPubs Author:Simon Pegg
“I have always been a HUGE Star Wars fan since I was like 5 years old. Most of us in the writers room at Family Guy were big nerds growing up and could recite almost any scene from Star Wars.” YearsWarBigsGuyStarsRoomsGrowing UpGrowingFansHugeSceneNerdFamily Guy Author:Alex Borstein
“Sometimes I'll watch a movie, and it's got some big star in it playing a working-class person, and the character is in a grocery store, and you can kind of tell, from just watching the scene, that this actor doesn't do their own shopping. So you have to have some sense of reality.” KindPersonsSometimesCharacterBigsRealityActorsStarsClassWatchesSceneStoresShoppingWorking ClassGroceriesGrocery Stores Author:Winona Ryder
“It was definitely a big change in my life going from the college scene to really kind of being on my own. I got married and moved to Houston and started a whole new journey. It was scary in a way, but what's great for me is just focusing on gymnastics and my wife. I'm really able to put 100% into what my goals are.” WayKindWholeBigsAbleGoalMy OwnWifeJourneyCollegeSceneMarriedMovedScaryMy WifeGymnasticsHoustonChanging My LifeBig ChangesNew Journey Author:Jonathan Horton
“I'd rather lose the small part of the audience that is going to be insulted because a documentary shouldn't have music than the big part of the audience that kind of gives itself over to the scene.” GivingKindBigsLosesAudienceSceneDocumentariesInsultedSmall Parts Author:Daniel Stamm
“I'm a big believer in rehearsal and a big believer in the actors being able to find the material themselves and identify with the beats themselves without us having to stick to the actual language of the script, just for them to understand what each scene is about.” BigsAbleActorsLanguageMaterialsSceneBeatsSticksScriptsBelieverRehearsal Author:Dean Israelite
“I think the success of every novel - if it's a novel of action - depends on the high spots. The thing to do is to say to yourself, 'Which are my big scenes?' and then get every drop of juice out of them. The principle I always go on in writing a novel is to think of the characters in terms of actors in a play. I say to myself, if a big name were playing this part, and if he found that after a strong first act he had practically nothing to do in the second act, he would walk out. Now, then, can I twist the story so as to give him plenty to do all the way through?” IfsThinkingWayGivingWritingFirstsPlayCharacterStoriesBigsActionActorsFoundNamesStrongTermWalksPrinciplesNovelGoes OnDependsSceneSpotsPlentyThings To DoTwistsJuice Author:P. G. Wodehouse
“Ralph Fiennes was a big hero of mine acting-wise growing up and while I was training. I just find him so watchable. He was playing this very intimidating character when we worked together and it certainly felt like he was in character off set as well! He was very cool. Before a scene, he'd be like, "Come on. Let's improvise. Let's just do stuff." But Jesus Christ. He's Ralph Fiennes!” WellsCharacterBigsTogetherJesusFeltStuffChristActingGrowing UpWiseGrowingMinesHeroSceneTrainingJesus ChristIntimidatingVery Cool Author:Jeremy Irvine
“On a simple level, you need directors who are good at action and can choreograph an action scene, but you need them to also have that sense of fun and that sense of movement and that ability to get the actors to really respond to the material in the way that you want them to. It's a very big thing.” WayWantNeedsBigsActionActorsFunSimpleAbilityLevelsMovementMaterialsSceneDirectorsBig Things Author:Adrian Hodges
“Fight scenes are hard, no matter what you do. You're trying to make it look like you're hurting someone without hurting them. It doesn't matter how big and strong the guy is that you're fighting, or how small and feeble someone is that you're fighting. You don't want to hurt them. You're working with them.” WantTryingLooksMatterHardBigsGuyFightingStrongHurtLike YouSceneNo Matter WhatHurting Someone Author:Zach McGowan
“Sometimes a scene can elude you, and then, you also learn that the small moments are really what you're after. A big broad moment that gets the crew laughing, usually isn't going to translate to an audience.” SometimesMomentsBigsAudienceLaughingSceneBroadsTranslateCrewEludeSmall MomentsElude You Author:Nicholas Stoller
“The New Romantic scene was so tiny. Although it got lots of mileage in the media, it was a really small club with only a core group of people. As it got more popular, kids started to come from the suburbs all dressed up, but it -really wasn't as big as it looked.” PeopleBigsKidsGroupsMediaSceneClubsTinyCoreSuburbsDressed UpMileage Author:Boy George
“I think drugs played a big role in the Taboo scene. People were taking copious amounts of ecstasy, which had filtered over from New York, and at a certain point you were more likely to spend most of the night in the toilets at the club.” PeopleThinkingBigsNightCertainRolesNew YorkAmountSceneDrugClubsEcstasyToiletsTaboo Author:Boy George
“Actually I'm a big fan of Spielberg and the way he shoots action scenes.” WayBigsActionFansScene Author:Tommy Wirkola
“The challenge, and also what I like most about a big ensemble movie, is that all actors have completely different processes and all of them prefer scenes to be done a different way.” WayDifferentDoneBigsActorsProcessChallengesSceneDifferent WaysEnsemble Author:Jamie Linden
“Even in the big movies, if the scenes are very big, I'm not fond of them as much as I'm fond of small actor scenes.” IfsBigsActorsSceneBig Movie Author:Ayelet Zurer
“The second political thing I did was to say 'The Beatles are bigger than Jesus.' That really broke the scene, I nearly got shot in America for that. It was a big trauma for all the kids that were following us.” BigsKidsAmericaPoliticalJesusSceneShotsBiggerFollowingTraumaBroke Author:John Lennon
“And also, I'm most comfortable with like two people just sitting and talking about their feeling, you know, in a room with like two cameras and that's it. And I wanted to do something where there was like action and running and you know crowd scenes and big set pieces and certainly did a lot of that, so yeah.” PeopleKnowsTwoFeelingsBigsRunningActionWantedRoomsTalkingPiecesSceneComfortableSittingCamerasYeahCrowds Author:Nicholas Stoller
“Even though she's dealing with a scar, Emily just carries on with life. It's not a big deal. While we were shooting the scene, I tried it different ways. I tried it where I was hiding my face, and Chris [Weitz] was like, "Let's try it where she doesn't care," and that's who she is. She doesn't care what anybody else thinks.” ThinkingWayTryingDifferentBigsCareFacesDealsSceneShootingDifferent WaysCarrieHidingScarBig DealEmily Author:Tinsel Korey
“The same camera that photographs a murder scene can photograph a beautiful society affair at a big hotel.” BigsBeautifulSceneMurderCamerasPhotographAffairHotel Author:Weegee
“The big change was reggae and hip-hop, which came along after Split Enz had started. When Bob Marley first visited New Zealand, he lit a fuse that is still burning very brightly. The Maori people particularly honor reggae music in a very big way. So there is a strong reggae scene and a strong hip-hop scene, especially among Samoans. There's still plenty of quirky stuff around. No one expects to make much money here, so it definitely does encourage an underground sense.” PeopleWayFirstsDoeStillsBigsStrongStuffHonorSceneHip HopPlentyBurningHipsHopsBobSplitsLitQuirkyNew ZealandReggaeFuseBig ChangesMarleyReggae Music Author:Tim Finn
“I do an opening in 'The Glory of the World' play at BAM, and then I go up to the high balcony in the back and watch the bulk of the play, but then I have to leave my seat about seven to 10 minutes before the end of that final big scene...and it's a bummer.” EndsPlayBigsWatchesMinutesSceneSevenFinalsOpeningSeatsBalconiesBummer Author:Will Oldham
“I wasn't big in the party scene but I did have an excessive lifestyle. I had much more than I needed. I think that was a manifestation of a certain kind of mental illness.” ThinkingKindBigsCertainPartyNeededSceneIllnessLifestyleMental IllnessManifestation Author:Tom Shadyac
“I had to be naked [in Vinyl], but I was almost more nervous about having to be drunk. The director wasn't going to yell, "Too big!," during the nude scene. For the drunk scene, you can be bad drunk or good drunk. We'll see. My wife was not happy, hearing about it.” BigsWifeSceneDirectorsHearingMy WifeNakedNervousDrunkNot HappyVinyl Author:Ray Romano
“The first big thing that I did with my dad was the bicycle sequence in "The Great Muppet Caper," where Kermit and Piggy are riding bicycles in Battersea Park in London and that was a complex marionetting and cranes driving through the park, it was a complicated scene, and I did that with my dad.” FirstsBigsDadSceneComplexesMy DadComplicatedLondonDrivingParksRidingBig ThingsSequenceBicycleCranesRiding A BicycleMuppetPiggyCapers Author:Brian Henson
“When I went to do my big audition with actors for Mr. Blonde, the thing that was very interesting was the first person to actually do the audition with the song, and they kind of actually acted out the whole scene, they weren't so great. It wasn't that they were magnificent, but the song, it was the first -it was all - been in my head.” FirstsKindPersonsWholeBigsSongActorsInterestingSceneMagnificentAuditionsVery InterestingBlondeFirst Person Author:Quentin Tarantino
“Remember I came to Albuquerque to do a hair and makeup test and wardrobe fitting; you guys were already shooting. It's tough when the movie's already started and you kind of show up. You're the new kid on the block. I walked onto the set and Tommy [Lee Jones] was about to do the scene. I just kind of walked up to him. I was shaking, but I just gave him this big hug and he just had nothing to say. He was like, 'Gotta go to work now.' I had a great time working with him."” KindShowsBigsKidsRememberGuyHairSceneToughTestsBlockShootingMakeupHugShakingFittingWardrobeGreat TimesHad A Great TimeHair And MakeupAlbuquerque Author:Charlize Theron
“I use singing as a warm-up before big scenes I have to do on set. It's also great to make people less nervous.” PeopleUseBigsSceneSingingWarmNervous Author:Kevin Daniels