“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
“The secrets that the characters hold are held back from the audience, and that's such a delight to hold onto. When you're playing scenes, it gives you an inner dialogue that allows you to really immerse yourself as the actor, in every scene that you're playing. Nothing felt expositional. Nothing felt like we were just doing it to move the story along. There was a reason these characters were saying what they're saying. It was a gift, really.” GivingReasonCharacterStoriesMovingActorsFeltSecretAudienceSceneDelightDialogue Author:Tom Hughes
“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
“I think of myself as a fairly decent human being and it gives me great pain to be considered for all the mean S.O.B.s that come along. I've played bird decapitators, puppy stranglers, woman beaters, wife poisoners, child molesters - every goddamn thing you can think of. It was quite scene there for a while. But I think the image is changing...I hope to God the old image is fading from people's minds.” PeopleThinkingGivingMindHumansMeanChildrenPainHuman BeingsWifeSceneBirdGive MeDecentPuppyFadingPoisoners Author:George C. Scott
“I like when I use music in film that it isn't just gilding the lily and it isn't telling you how to feel. It's giving you something, some other information that you cannot otherwise get in the scene.” GivingFeelsUseFilmInformationSceneLilies Author:Fred Schepisi
“The director's job is to know what emotional statement he wants a character to convey in his scene or his line, and to exercise taste and judgment in helping the actor give his best possible performance.” KnowsWantGivingCharacterHelpingJobsActorsLinesEmotionalExerciseTasteSceneDirectorsJudgmentPerformancesStatementsTaste And Judgment Author:Stanley Kubrick
“You know that scene at the beginning (of 'Pirate Radio') where I take The Count a cup of tea in the studio, and he shakes my hand, gives me a hug, and slaps me on the arse? That's genuinely the first time Tom Sturridge met Philip Seymour Hoffman. Literally, I'd hadn't seen him or exchanged words with him before. Richard just called me on set and said, 'Take him a cup of tea.' So that's what I did. And the smile of delight as he slaps me on the arse is purely mine.” KnowsGivingFirstsSaidHandsMinesMetsSceneFirst TimeGive MeRadioDelightStudiosCupsTeaShakesHugTomsPirateSlapCups Of TeaPhilipArsesPirate Radio Author:Tom Sturridge
“I grew up being educated by Sesame Street and gained a sense of humor from The Muppet Show. I'd give my right foot to be able to do a scene or two with the Muppets.” GivingTwoShowsAbleFeetStreetsGrewSceneGrew UpEducatedSense Of HumorMuppetSesame StreetMuppet Show Author:Neil Patrick Harris
“You think you photograph a particular scene for the pleasure it gives. In fact it's the scene that wants to be photographed. You're merely an extra in the production.” ThinkingWantGivingFactsPleasureParticularScenePhotographProductionsExtras Book:Fotografien Source: Fotografien
“I think that I would like to have that kind of a budget [hundreds millions dollars] and I think the reasons for it are it gives you more time and it gives you the opportunity to be more ambitious with what you want to do with the camera and also how a scene works. I wouldn't want to direct those kinds of scripts.” ThinkingWantGivingKindReasonOpportunityMillionsSceneDirectCamerasDollarsScriptsWhat You WantBudgetsMore TimeAmbitious Author:Duncan Jones
“Unfortunately, we don't have a depth of African scriptwriters, so it's easier to Africanize something that already works. Local script writers are giving me James Bond budget scenes that I can't even produce.” GivingI CanProduceEasierSceneDepthScriptsLocalsBudgets Author:Mo Abudu
“I have tried to write soundtracks, and the main problem with those was that the directors often had in their minds a much stronger sense of what they wanted to hear, than what I was willing to give them, and I guess there was no way to say, "Well why don't you write your scene around my music?" Because that's just cocky and awful.” WayGivingWritingMindWellsProblemWantedWillingSceneDirectorsMusic IsStrongerAwfulCockySoundtracks Author:Zach Condon
“General improvisations often give actors an insight beyond their words by helping them to 'see the word' and achieve a reality for the scene.” GivingHelpingRealityActorsAchieveSceneInsightImprovisation Author:Viola Spolin
“But for me, you also have to be conscious of what is going to play. And that includes playing with. Sometimes it's just a vibe. It's what's going to make this scene work. And sometimes there may be something that restricts you that has to do with something that maybe is historically accurate. And then you have to weigh that decision and give up something for a scene to work.” GivingMaySometimesPlayDecisionSceneGiving UpConsciousAccurate Author:Gary Cole
“I think a lot of the production process is always giving yourself, like what I call like escape routes, like, if this scene doesn't play, if we realize we've had too many dirty scenes in a row, and it's like, because you don't have the luxury when you're in the middle of shooting, to see how these scenes play all in a row, kind of, you know what I mean. So, like we're always trying to like have insurance policies on, ok, if that doesn't work, we can just jump to this thing.” IfsThinkingKnowsGivingTryingKindMeanPlayProcessRealizingMiddlePolicySceneProductionsLuxuryShootingDirtyRoutesAlways TryingGiving YourselfInsurance Policy Author:Etan Cohen
“Everyone's encouraged to put things in their own words, to discover new things. So there's definitely an element of dynamic improvisation, for sure, which I think gives those scenes some of their energy, some of their electricity.” ThinkingGivingEnergySceneElementsNew ThingsElectricityImprovisation Author:Steve Zissis
“I really like directors who give you a certain amount of autonomy because I think a lot about my characters and I think a lot about scenes and choices.” ThinkingGivingCharacterCertainChoicesAmountSceneDirectorsAutonomy Author:Sarah Gadon
“Becoming a fashion designer is agreeing with the fact that what you experience or what you see as free is also connected to a system. Does that mean giving up your freedom? I still don't know the answer. There's a very different kind of psychology going on in the fashion scene than in art.” KnowsGivingKindMeanDoeArtStillsDifferentFactsAnswersPsychologyFashionBecomingSceneGiving UpConnectedDesignerDifferent KindsFashion DesignerYour Freedom Author:Raf Simons
“I do try to pay attention to new bands and what's happening within the scene. I try to make sure I give everything a listen - even if I loathe it.” IfsGivingTryingPayAttentionSceneBandHappeningsPay AttentionLoathe Author:Mat McNerney
“What I would do is I would just remember the scene and I'd go home and I'd write out the scene from memory. And anything I didn't remember I would just fill in the blanks myself and then go and give it to a classmate and then we'd do it.” GivingWritingHomeRememberMemoriesSceneClassmates Author:Quentin Tarantino
“I think it would be self-indulgent to go, "Oh, I'm going to make this character different by giving him a quirk of some kind." I don't think that serves the story, particularly. But even very similar scenes with a different set of actors, a different set of circumstances, it starts to evolve as a different character.” ThinkingGivingKindDifferentSelfCharacterStoriesWould BeActorsCircumstancesSceneEvolveDifferent CharactersQuirksSelf Indulgent Author:David Tennant
“I like a director who is very observant and is watching what I'm doing and noticing what I'm doing, but is giving me time to figure it out. They don't jump right in and give you a note before you've had time to really search on your own with how to do a scene.” GivingFiguresSceneDirectorsNotesNoticingObservant Author:Julia Stiles
“Somebody comes to your house. You know they're coming, so it's not a surprise. And they give you an envelope that has your scenes in it. And they sit in the car outside for a half an hour while you read your scenes, then they ring your doorbell and you give your scenes back. Then you shoot the movie a few weeks later or something. The next time you see your scenes is the night before you start shooting. I never read the script [Blue Jasmine], so I didn't really know what it was about.” KnowsGivingNightNextHouseHoursHalfWeekCarSceneBlueSurpriseScriptsRingsShootingNext TimeEnvelopesJasmine Author:Alden Ehrenreich
“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
“I don't give parties, and I'm not in that social scene. I couldn't care less.” GivingCareSocialPartyScene 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 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
“In the States, you have the First Amendment. People feel the freedom to speak and the right to be heard. And they kind of push the message: "It's a free country." Everybody has the right to say whatever they want to say. But in the Middle East, culture is your guide. You have to ask, is it culturally okay to say something like that? Is it culturally okay, for example, to show a woman giving birth? As Arabs watching such a scene in an American film it's okay, but when it comes to the Arabic context, we're like, "How dare you?" So it's how you present it.” PeopleWantGivingFeelsFirstsKindCountryStatesShowsFilmCultureAsksSpeakHeardMiddleExampleBirthSceneMessagesOkayDareEastGuidesMiddle EastAmendmentsFirst AmendmentGiving BirthFree CountryAmerican Film Author:Mohammed Saeed Harib