“The childhood scenes [ in The Tree of Life] are tremendous. My favorite moment is when the mother levitate - for three seconds. Of course, this is how a child thinks of his mother.” ThinkingChildrenMomentsMotherThreeCoursesTreeChildhoodSceneMy FavoriteSecondsTree Of Life Author:Paul Auster
“We used hand-held cameras 50 years ago. It wasn't something new. Sometimes we used a tripod, or we'd have a tracking shot, and sometimes - like when a character was being chased - we used a hand-held camera because it was right for the scene. In those cases, it helped the mood; it created immediacy and a feeling for the viewer that they were in the scene and in the moment.” YearsSometimesMomentsCharacterFeelingsHandsUsedCasesSceneShotsYears AgoCamerasMoodSomething NewViewersImmediacyTrackingTripods Author:Vilmos Zsigmond
“Well, my intention is to make work about being uncomfortable. About being in a world that isn't always the world you want to be part of. I talk a lot about the free fall, the moment in the scene where gravity takes over, and the beautiful awkwardness when gravity wins. Gravity is hilarious. Gravity always wins.” WorldWantWellsMomentsBeautifulFallWinningSceneIntentionUncomfortableGravityAwkwardness Author:Laurel Nakadate
“Kevin Bacon and I recently worked on a move together, R.I.P.D. Just before we'd begin a scene, when all of us would feel the normal anxiety that actors feel be- fore they start to perform, Kevin would look at me and the other actors with a very serious expression on his face and say: "Remember, everything depends on this!" It would make us all laugh. On the one hand, it's not true of course, but on the other, everything does depend on this, on just this moment and our attitude toward this moment.” FeelsLooksDoeMomentsHandsTogetherRememberFacesMovingCoursesActorsAttitudeLaughingSeriousExpressionDependsSceneNormalAnxietyLook At MeKevinRemembers Everything Author:Jeff Bridges
“I don't think that those things [so called common practice] ever truly existed in the way that we like to believe that they do, the way we learn about them in music history class. Those things are defined at least decades after they happen. And even then, it's a fallacy because when you're in the moment, when you're in a thriving scene of musicians, inevitably everyone is going to be doing something completely different from everyone else” ThinkingWayBelieveDifferentMomentsHappensCommonClassPracticeSceneMusicianDecadesDefinedFallacyHistory Class Author:Missy Mazzoli
“I cut the scene out, but there was a moment where Christoph Waltz plays the piano in 'Django [Unchained]' - Jamie [Foxx] is a magnificent piano-player but there's never a moment where Django plays the piano.” PlayMomentsCuttingPlayerScenePianoMagnificentJamieWaltzDjangoDjango Unchained Author:Quentin Tarantino
“You need great actors in this one, because there are moments where there's no way to get around it, you just need to come up with it. They have no time; they can't help you with coaches: "We've got to have it now!" Whether it's tears, whether it's a five-page scene. You can't put it off tomorrow because we're already behind; you've got to have it. I'm just amazed at the casting and how wonderful everybody was.” WayNeedsMomentsHelpingActorsBehindsFiveWonderfulTearsTomorrowScenePagesCome UpCoachesAmazedCastingBehind YouGreat Actors Author:Courtney B. Vance
“I started out as a poet who primarily wanted to write about image and moment. Over the years I've been trying to teach myself how to do plot and scene. My first story collection had the most issues with the plotlessness, and when I was writing my second collection I was teaching myself how to make things happen.” WritingTryingYearsFirstsMomentsStoriesHappensWantedTeachIssuesTeachingPoetSceneThings HappenCollectionsPlotMake Things Happen Author:Dan Chaon
“Trying to stay in the moment as an actor and being really [present in] what you're doing and the scene that's going on and where the characters have come from, it wasn't difficult, per se, to really embody and embrace.” TryingMomentsCharacterActorsDifficultSceneEmbraceBeing Real Author:Danielle Panabaker
“Well, I'll be honest with you, sometimes you don't know you're playing a moment that's going to be in a montage. Sometimes it's a scene that didn't work out the way you hoped it would be and ends up in a montage.” KnowsWayWellsEndsSometimesMomentsWould BeHonestSceneWork OutBeing Honest Author:Mark Duplass
“You get to keep acting on the feelings you had just moments before. You don't have to psych yourself up for the scene. You can just go off what you were already feeling.” MomentsFeelingsActingScenePsych Author:Taissa Farmiga
“Theratre is not like like in film and TV, where you have to stop and go back and keep redoing the same three pages for two hours. You get to go through the whole 80 pages of the script, which is incredible. You get to keep acting on the feelings you had just moments before. You don't have to psych yourself up for the scene. You can just go off what you were already feeling.” TwoWholeMomentsFeelingsFilmThreeHoursActingTvsScenePagesIncrediblesScriptsPsych Author:Taissa Farmiga
“I guess at that moment in time I had a certain... presence? A certain level of presence in the industry. But that was at Madonna's request. There was a concept for the video ["Material Girl"], and the idea was that it was kind of a Howard Hughes and Marilyn Monroe sort of idea, that there was this guy behind the scenes making it all happen. And she saw me as that guy, so she asked for me.” KindIdeasMomentsHappensGuyCertainGirlLevelsBehindsSawsMaterialsIndustrySceneConceptsVideoThat MomentThis GuyRequestThat GuyMoments In TimeBehind The ScenesMaterial Girl Author:Keith Carradine
“If you have a dishonest moment, you're going to lose the audience. So I had to not only light myself in the scenes.” IfsMomentsLightLosesAudienceScene Author:Ryan Reynolds
“Everyone sees the glory moments, but they don't see what happens behind the scenes.” MomentsHappensBehindsSceneGloryBehind The Scenes Author:Allyson Felix
“There are certain scenes you do in a movie that are like catching a wave, and you leave work feeling elated - almost as though you've purged something. That's rare, but you do live for those moments.” MomentsFeelingsCertainSceneWaveCatching Author:Michelle Pfeiffer
“The thing about running is, if I run in the morning before work, I feel like I'm ahead of the day. Whatever work I've done in terms of preparation or research or thinking about the scene or the character, it all kind of crystallizes in that moment in the morning. And sometimes I have the best ideas then.” IfsThinkingFeelsKindIdeasSometimesDoneMomentsCharacterRunningTermMorningSceneResearchAll KindsPreparationThat MomentWhatever Works Author:Tom Hiddleston
“When I saw that scene [in ocean from the Aquarius] for the first time, it blew me away. It caused me to reflect on my age, my history and all that I've been through in Brazil. Having been away from Brazil for so long, while not speaking in my own tongue, when I saw that image, I felt like I was taking my first deep breath after nearly suffocating to death. It was like the plastic had been removed from my head. Even if this breath turned out to be my last, at least I got to have this one moment of release. At least I got this one chance.” IfsFirstsLongMomentsAgeLastsFeltChanceMy OwnSawsSceneOceanFirst TimeBreathsTongueReleasePlasticBrazilDeep BreathOne ChanceSuffocatingAquarius Author:Sonia Braga
“What is useful about when there is a sort of pull-out to reveal moment going on is that it actually focuses the mind when you're writing the earlier scenes because you're thinking 'right, how do I? I can only show this amount of the room... I can only show these characters from the waist up because they've all got robot legs!' it's a challenge so it keeps you engaged on some level.” ThinkingWritingMindI CanMomentsCharacterShowsChallengesLevelsRoomsAmountSceneLegsEngagedRobotsThinking Right Author:Charlie Brooker
“I don't think I've succeeded in making any really good films. There are moments, scenes, whole movements that sing. It has all added up to a cinema of sorts, even though I'm still learning my art.” ThinkingArtStillsWholeMomentsFilmMovementSceneCinemaGood Films Author:Jean-Luc Godard
“Animators do amazing working translating and interpolating the characters [in the Planet of the apes], the facial performances. What we're creating on set - if you don't get it on the day, in the moment, on set, in front of the camera, with the director and the actors. The emotional content of the scene and the acting choices.” IfsMomentsCharacterChoicesActorsActingFrontsEmotionalPlanetsSceneDirectorsCreatingPerformancesCamerasTranslateApesFacialAnimator Author:Andy Serkis
“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
“When you shoot a scene, you remember every moment. You remember when your head went down, your head went up. You don't see little quirks, little eye movements, little lip movements. Once again, you become completely vain when you're watching it in a way that you weren't when you were shooting it. And the vanity, what it makes you focus on are everything that has nothing to do with the scene and everything to do with your own ego.” WayLittlesMomentsEyeRememberFocusMovementSceneEgoLipsVanityShootingVainRemember WhenQuirks Author:Viola Davis
“You gleefully say, "I just thought of something!", when in fact your brain performed an enormous amount of work before your moment of genius struck. When an idea is served up from behind the scenes, your neural circuitry has been working on it for hours or days or years, consolidating information and trying out new combinations. But you take credit without further wonderment at the vast, hidden machinery behind the scenes.” TryingYearsHas BeensIdeasMomentsFactsHoursBehindsBrainInformationAmountGeniusSceneCreditEnormousCombinationMachineryYour MomBehind The Scenes Author:David Eagleman