“When I'm creating a character, it's a little bit like what my theater teachers used to tell me about Stanislavsky, like if you're using sense memory to do a scene - if you have to cry in a scene, you try to remember something in your life that made you cry and you use that in order to get the tears.” IfsTryingLittlesMadeCharacterUseRememberUsedOrderBitsMemoriesTeacherCryTearsSceneCreatingLittle BitTheaterRemember Something Author:Jeffrey Eugenides
“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.” TryingLittlesEndsSometimesStoriesSceneNotesFollowingListsPlotChapters Author:Pamela Clare
“I decided to work on hand animate because the animators work as authors in every little scene and it brings real soul for characters.” LittlesRealSoulCharacterHandsSceneDecidedAnimator Author:Luiz Bolognesi
“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.” PeopleNeedsWellsLittlesOrderEnergySocialClassTechnologyMiddleYouthBalanceSceneChaosCornersAlternativesParksContradictionMiddle ClassNeighborhoodSectionsInnovativeFacilityCozyOlder People Author:Charles Landry
“As a writer, you know what the purpose of the scene is. It really has nothing to do with the actor so you have to really get out of that space because for actors it's a micro-focus and then you figure out your arc through what the writers have given you to say. But that arc is just one little piece of the huge arc of the whole film. It took a while to get out of that.” KnowsLittlesWholeFilmPurposeActorsGivenSpaceFocusPiecesFiguresHugeSceneJust OneArcs Author:Grant Heslov
“I flew over to Birmingham and did half a dozen scenes or so as a pastor in the film. I had a great time. I look forward to seeing the final version. I also am good friends with the Erwin Brothers who are co-directing and producing the film with Kevin. They also helped with Courageous. It's kind of a small little family in this arena and we love helping each other out.” LooksKindLittlesHelpingFilmHalfSeeingBrotherSceneFinalsVersionsCourageousDozenGood FriendPastorArenaFlewGreat TimesKevinHelping Each OtherBirminghamHad A Great Time Author:Alex Kendrick
“Well I liked the mixture actually. It's really good fun to have throughout a shoot to move from something which is quite character based in certain scenes where there's very little action and you're just working with actors and I suppose I've had quite a lot of practice at that. This is more action than I've had a chance to do so that was fun for me too to go into the action then and have some really good crew working with me. And sometimes you get these scenes where they blend.” WellsLittlesSometimesCharacterActionMovingCertainActorsFunChancePracticeSceneCrewMixturesGood Fun Author:Oliver Parker
“I'll generally write out every scene that's in the film on a couple of pieces of paper, just with a little one-line. And then I can scan it a bit and go, 'This first third of the film, generally, I'm kind of calm.' Then I might do something on one piece of paper that just relates to the energy of the character.” WritingFirstsKindLittlesI CanCharacterMightFilmEnergyBitsLinesPiecesCoupleScenePaperThirdsCalmRelateOne PieceOne Line Author:Guy Pearce
“People ask me this a lot, what a song's about.... I do think analyzing a song can be interesting, although it doesn't necessarily get to the point. It's a whole other side activity. I do like making a thing into pictures. If I get an abstract idea and all the words in it don't represent tangible things, I might try to take the idea and make it into a picture, create a little scene there, an image.” PeopleIfsThinkingTryingLittlesIdeasWholeMightSongAsksSidesInterestingSceneActivityAsk MeAbstractTangibleAnalyzing Author:Tom Verlaine
“They [NYPD] tell you how you can act and what you can do your whole entire life. But they always stayed out of it. I did a little here and there for the police department as far as a crime scene that might have occult overtones - they would call me and I'd look into it. But it was usually minor little things.” LooksLittlesWholeMightCan DoCrimeScenePoliceDepartmentCall MeLittle ThingsMinorsHere And ThereOccultPolice DepartmentNypd Author:Ralph Sarchie
“And while dollars have little to do with it, the fiction writer should be asking the same question any capable film producer would ask: Is this scene truly necessary? It is the kind of thinking that, put into practice, results in a story with a sense of energy and direction.” ThinkingShouldKindLittlesStoriesFilmAsksEnergyResultsFictionPracticeSceneCapableAskingDollarsProducersFiction Writers Author:Les Standiford
“I'm more or less happily writing Chapter Six of The Graveyard Book. I say more or less as I'm at that place where I hope that the book knows what it's doing because right now I don't have a clue - I'm writing one scene after another like a man walking through a valley in thick fog, just able to see the path a little way ahead, but with no idea where it's actually going to lead him.” KnowsMenWayWritingLittlesBookIdeasAblePathWalkingRight NowSceneSixNo IdeaValleysThickChaptersClueFogGraveyard Author:Neil Gaiman
“When you're working on something where there's usually one sex scene in the film, it all gets a little bit of a gray area and people get a bit uncomfortable and awkward. You just get through it. But, it became very clear on this that that can't happen. There can't be any gray areas on this because there are actors and actresses coming in for a day or a couple of days, as well as people who are there regularly.” PeopleWellsLittlesHappensFilmActorsSexBitsClearCoupleSceneLittle BitAreasActressesUncomfortableGrayAwkwardGray AreaActors And Actresses Author:Michael Sheen
“There are lots of guns and action in my drawings, and part of that is just to make them more interesting. Because you can go through a whole film and it's mostly talking heads and little else until the action scenes, and they're usually violence or physical stuff. Same with baseball, or any sport. Except I find pitching and batting are visually very striking.” LittlesWholeActionFilmStuffSportsInterestingTalkingViolenceSceneGunBaseballDrawingPitchingBattingTalking Heads Author:Raymond Pettibon
“When the film was presented in New York, the distributor reproduced the fountain scene on a billboard as high as a skyscraper. My name was in the middle in huge letters, Fellini's was at the bottom, very tiny. Now the name of Fellini has become very great, mine very little.” LittlesFilmNamesMiddleNew YorkMinesHugeSceneLettersBottomTinyFountainSkyscraperBillboardsDistributors Author:Anita Ekberg
“Even dramatically how you position some person, the depth, the existence [in 3D] is different than a flat image even though by itself it has depth, we create the illusion of depth. For example, some of the shots I have to stay closer to the actor because it's a young actor, I like it closer for some of the shots. I watch 2D scenes next to the camera, then when I go back to my station and watch it in 3D I have to go back and reduce his acting, he has to shrink a little bit because he peeks out more.” LittlesPersonsDifferentYoungNextActorsBitsActingExistenceWatchesExamplePositionSceneLittle BitIllusionShotsCamerasDepthFlatsStationsShrinksYoung Actors Author:Ang Lee
“There were a couple of times that we did end up moving the set [of Helix] outside to shoot some of the outside scenes, just because we needed a bit more space, and that ended up being a little bit more helpful and easier to breathe, when you're dealing with some of the fake snow stuff. It was a lot of fun, and it looks amazing.” LooksLittlesEndsMovingFunStuffBitsSpaceCoupleNeededEasierSceneLittle BitBreatheSnowFakeHelpful Author:Kyra Zagorsky
“I did do a little research. I went to a couple really fantastic strip clubs with really talented dancers, just in terms of their physical prowess. For the scene, there was a whole dance routine that I had to do, so I worked with a pole dance instructor who helped me choreograph a number for that scene. We broke down the principles of pole dancing, for three days, for an hour a day.” LittlesWholeThreeTermHoursNumbersPrinciplesCoupleSceneResearchDancingClubsFantasticBrokeDancerRoutineInstructorsProwessPole Dancing Author:Megalyn Echikunwoke
“I find that kid actors are great reminders of the simplicity of acting. As you get older, you can sometimes complicate things a little more. You can become too aware of, 'Okay, this is the scene emotionally. This is where we need to be. We've got the climax coming up.' You can start to analyze it too much.” NeedsLittlesSometimesKidsActorsActingToo MuchSceneOkaySimplicityRemindersClimax Author:Hugh Jackman
“I just read that one scene for Emily in New Moon, and it was pretty simple and straightforward. They liked that I did it really natural. They were like, "That was great!," even with what little I had. Sometimes just having those little scenes are a lot tougher than if you have five pages because you have to go from 0 to 100 in a snap.” IfsLittlesSometimesNaturalSimpleFiveSceneMoonPagesStraightforwardSnapsEmilyNew Moon Author:Tinsel Korey
“Ever see a skinny guy on a cold day? You know they tremble like Chihuahuas. Then you see a fat guy in a tank top - nine degrees, he's sweatin'. Look at 'Titanic,' remember the boat goes into the icy cold waters? Little skinny Leonardo: dead. Final scene, Kathy Bates on a rowboat, coat open, eating a hotdog.” KnowsLooksLittlesRememberGuyWaterColdSceneDegreesEatingFinalsNineFatsBoatCoatsSkinnyTanksIcyLeonardoCold WaterChihuahuaCold DaysTank Tops Author:Greg Fitzsimmons
“Sex scenes are always a little uncomfortable at first.” FirstsLittlesSexSceneUncomfortable Author:Dakota Johnson
“Scatterbrain is one of those harmless little words you use a million times... Then it turns up in a crime scene description.” LittlesUseTurnsMillionsCrimeSceneDescriptionScatterbrain Author:Dana Gould
“I was always interested in music, I felt it was time to do it, coming out of the punk scene [1979]. I thought it was ideal that anyone could just put together a group and make it work. Then, of course, it became a little more detailed after starting it and realizing that it was something serious, not just a one-off situation. I had to put a lot more into it. Also I did it to get a lot of things out of my system, things that had been put there while I was growing up in my family. A sort of exorcizing of demons.” LittlesTogetherCoursesFeltRealizingSituationGrowing UpGrowingGroupsSeriousSceneIdealsMy FamilyStartingDemonComing OutPunk Author:Rozz Williams
“I kind of build a novel the way marine polyps build a coral reef, it's millions and millions of little precarious bodies stacked on one another. And in my case, that's thousands of minutes I go through to get from one scene to the next and build it that way.” WayKindLittlesBodyNextMillionsCasesNovelMinutesSceneMarinePrecariousReefsCoral Reefs Author:Dean Koontz
“I was a grill cook at McDonalds for a little bit. I did landscape for a little bit. I played a lot in the bar scene, I played countless sets of acoustic songs in that arena.” LittlesSongBitsSceneLittle BitBarsLandscapeCooksArenaMcdonaldsAcoustics Author:Aaron Lewis
“While Barack Obama was making his latest pitch for a brand new, even more unsustainable entitlement at the health care 'summit,' thousands of Greeks took to the streets to riot. An enterprising cable network might have shown the two scenes on a continuous split-screen - because they're part of the same story. It's just that Greece is a little further along in the plot: They're at the point where the canoe is about to plunge over the falls. America is further upstream and can still pull for shore, but has decided, instead, that what it needs to do is catch up with the Greek canoe.” NeedsLittlesStillsTwoStoriesMightCareAmericaFallStreetsSceneDecidedScreensBrandsBarackHealth CareGreekPlotShoreSplitsGreeceSummitCablesRiotEntitlementPlungeBrand NewEnterprising Author:Mark Steyn
“You don't go to other books and take little pieces because although say a romantic scene may have been many times before all the details of who it is, where it is, are so intertwined in that text that it's easier to write it from scratch.” WritingMayLittlesHas BeensBookPiecesEasierSceneDetailsScratchesIntertwined Author:Bill Gates
“I suppose also that watching marketing and publicity stuff play out from behind the scenes, making those plans and seeing each piece fall into place or not, each year, for each book, has made me a little more tranquil about the process for my own book than I might otherwise be.” YearsLittlesMadeBookPlayMightFallStuffProcessMy OwnBehindsPiecesPlansSeeingSceneMarketingPublicityTranquilBehind The ScenesFall Into Place Author:Danielle Dutton
“It was fun to be in a scene again with [my wife LaTanya Richardson]. We used to do plays together all the time. We hadn't really worked together since Losing Isaiah [1995]. That was kind of early on in both of our cinematic careers. Things have changed a little bit since then.” KindLittlesPlayTogetherUsedFunBitsCareersWifeChangedSceneLittle BitLosingMy WifeCinematicThings Have Changed Author:Samuel L. Jackson
“That was sheer luck that it [being immersed into folk scene] happened when my voice began to develop. I don't know exactly what would have happened if I hadn't been alive and well and really lively in the Cambridge scene. But (the folk scene) was, and I fell into it absolutely naturally in the little coffee shops, and pretty soon it was Newport and then it was an overwhelming response internationally, actually.” IfsKnowsWellsLittlesVoiceAliveHappenedSceneLuckResponseFolksCoffeeShopsOverwhelmingSheerLivelyCambridgeCoffee Shop Author:Joan Baez
“You got to get used to somebody, when you're acting or going through a scene, somebody yelling, "Do it a little louder!" OK, you do it a little louder.” LittlesUsedActingSceneYelling Author:Ice Cube
“Navigating with a partner makes it half as difficult. We keep each other in check. It's not like she [Angie Marr] was ever a quiet little wifey wife behind the scenes. She's exactly like me. She's very smart. We're very lucky that we've always wanted the same things. She loves guitar music, she loves important records, and our lives are about records and shows and great bands.” LittlesImportantShowsWantedDifficultBehindsHalfRecordsOur LivesWifeSceneLuckyQuietBandSmartGuitarPartnersChecksLike MeBehind The ScenesVery SmartGuitar Music Author:Johnny Marr
“I got introduced to the rave scene in 1992. At the time I was into skateboarding; I listened to a little hip-hop but was mainly into heavy metal and grunge.” LittlesSceneHip HopHeavyHipsHopsMetalsHeavy MetalSkateboardingRaveGrunge Author:Pedro Winter
“I really loved it because it really informed his way of seeing my character and the story. If you look closely he always had this metaphor of an egg, of a little chick pecking her way out of a shell, and in one scene in the kitchen there are all these white plates on a wall and then in the middle there is a yellow plate so even that looks like an egg. And a lot of the furniture was almost sculpted in that way as well. It was really cool to see that.” IfsWayWellsLooksLittlesCharacterStoriesWhiteSeeingMiddleWallSceneMetaphorKitchenEggsYellowPlatesShellsFurnitureReally CoolChicks Author:Mia Wasikowska
“When someone new comes on and has their first nude scene - and even if it's not full nudity - it's always a weird, awkward setup. We have these famous merkins which are sort of toupees for your delicate areas to make it look like you're naked but cover you up a little bit. But we joke around a little bit with the newbies who are trying that stuff on for the first time.” IfsTryingFirstsLooksLittlesStuffBitsLike YouSceneLittle BitJokesFirst TimeAreasNakedOver YouDelicateAwkwardNuditySetups Author:Deborah Ann Woll
“I feel like all the songs are little scenes, different angles, of the feelings that come around something ending.” FeelsLittlesDifferentFeelingsSongSceneAngleDifferent Angles Author:Norah Jones
“It's pretty easy to think of the idea of a story, and maybe even to write a scene or two, but understanding the ebb and flow of a narrative, where to leave the little clues your protagonist (and reader) need, while playing fair, takes a lot more skill and patience than you might think.” ThinkingNeedsWritingLittlesTwoIdeasStoriesMightEasyUnderstandingReaderSceneSkillsFairsFlowNarrativeClueProtagonistsEbb And Flow Author:Dennis Green
“I think there was a lot of working out the arc of how Manny [Daniel Radcliffe] talks. Scene to scene [in the Swiss army Man], if I would start talking a little too well, they would come in and say like, "Hey, you need to [dial back] your ability to speak" - things like that.” IfsThinkingMenNeedsWellsLittlesSpeakAbilityTalkingSceneArmyWork OutHeyArcsSwissHey YouAbility To Speak Author:Paul Dano
“The rehearsal period is so far away from the time when the scene will actually be shot that very little is remembered.” LittlesPeriodsSceneShotsRememberedFar AwayRehearsal Author:Peter Stone
“In one of the scenes [in the Ordinary World], you can see a little cameo of my son, who's in the party. You've just gotta bring it all back home.” WorldLittlesHomePartySonSceneOrdinaryMy SonBack HomeCameosOrdinary World Author:Billie Joe Armstrong
“For the actors, there's something very important about that first showing of the scene to the crew, becomes like a little performance.” FirstsLittlesImportantActorsScenePerformancesCrew Author:Ewan McGregor
“When I'm writing something, if it gets too serious, I just can't bear it, so I take a step back and take the overall scene in and vent the air a little bit.” IfsWritingLittlesBitsStepsAirSeriousBearsSceneLittle Bit Author:Park Chan-wook
“Let's say [Warren Beatty] wants you to speak louder in a scene. He won't stop playing the role and say to you as a director, "Will you speak louder on the next take?" He'll say it as Howard Hughes: "I can't totally hear you. Why don't you speak up a little bit?" To kind of keep this rhythm going.” WantKindLittlesI CanNextSpeakBitsRolesSceneDirectorsLittle BitRhythmBeatty Author:Alden Ehrenreich
“The industrial revolution took the father out of the home and put the kids in school. And then everyone had their own little scene.” LittlesHomeKidsSchoolFatherRevolutionSceneIndustrial Revolution Author:Howard Rheingold
“I personally like a little rehearsal, not if I'm gonna have a super emotional scene you wanna have it be a fresh thing.” IfsLittlesEmotionalSceneRehearsal Author:Zulay Henao
“It's hard to top what you see in the film, they were just such a great group of people to work with and we all hung out in between scenes and I got to know everybody a little bit.” PeopleKnowsLittlesHardFilmBitsGroupsSceneLittle BitHung Author:Christina Hendricks
“There are a lot of layers in the film [Dream of Life]. And during editing we would try to tame all the layers, try to make things a little bit more understood. We would move scenes around. We'd try all these things.” TryingLittlesDreamFilmMovingBitsSceneLittle BitUnderstoodLayersEditing Author:Steven Sebring
“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
“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