“I always feel the most validated and confident being around people that I find funny - having Fred Armisen laugh at a scene or Bill Hader or Seth Meyers give me a compliment.” PeopleGivingFeelsLaughingSceneGive MeBillsCompliment Author:Cecily Strong
“At any given time, there are a lot of million-dollar luxury charter boats cruising around the Mentawai Islands finding the most incredible waves. And yet the people on shore are suffering. The whole scene is wrong. As a surf community, we have to do something.” PeopleWholeSufferingGivenCommunityMillionsSceneFindingsDollarsIncrediblesWaveBoatLuxuryIslandsShoreMillion DollarsSurfCharter Author:Rob Machado
“Most of the time, I get auditions for deaf characters where the scene has them communicating in really convoluted ways, like reading lips from across the room when the other persons back is turned or having other people parrot what they say.” PeopleWayPersonsCharacterReadingRoomsSceneLipsCommunicateAuditionsDeafParrotsConvoluted Author:Shoshannah Stern
“I think the perception of me can be, you know, confused. But thats only because people only see that side of me when Im at work, in front of the camera. So they dont see Miranda at home; they dont see behind the scenes. They see the glamour of it all but they dont see Miranda standing barefoot in a dirty old house.” PeopleThinkingKnowsHomeHouseSidesBehindsFrontsScenePerceptionStandingCamerasDirtyConfusedBe YouGlamourBehind The ScenesBarefootOld HousesMiranda Author:Miranda Kerr
“It turns out that my memory is just not that great, so for specific scenes with people doing stuff, sometimes I'd have the details all wrong or I couldn't remember what happened exactly, so I just let that be.” PeopleSometimesRememberTurnsStuffMemoriesHappenedSceneDetails Author:Rick Moody
“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
“Sometimes people that are very good at improvisation in life, meaning like stage improvisation, aren't good in films because you have to ultimately take a scene where it needs to go. It's not about just saying something that's funny. You can say something funny but if it's not on story or driving the scene to its end it's really not very helpful at all.” PeopleIfsNeedsEndsSometimesStoriesFilmStageSceneVery GoodDrivingMeaning Of LifeHelpfulImprovisationJust SayingLife Means Author:Vince Vaughn
“You don't really get to know people behind the scenes. One can assume that it's out there, but I have no idea at the end of the day. I hope not.” PeopleKnowsIdeasEndsBehindsSceneAssumingNo IdeaThe End Of The DayBehind The Scenes Author:Mandy Moore
“When we make jokes about being lazy, or things that look like we're lazy parents, we don't want to make it appear like we're not also incredibly hardworking people when it comes to striving at our vocational things. I do think it's a conversation, but a lot of times, you make sacrifices for the sake of jokes, or for the sake of a scene.” PeopleThinkingWantLooksParentSacrificeSceneConversationJokesStriveSakeLazyHardworkingBeing Lazy Author:Lucas Neff
“Inspiring scenes of people taking the future of their countries into their own hands will ignite greater demands for good governance and political reform elsewhere in the world, including in Asia and in Africa.” PeopleWorldCountryHandsPoliticalGreaterSceneDemandIncludingReformElsewhereAsiaGovernanceIgniteGood GovernancePolitical Reform Author:William Hague
“I think so many great artists are flocking to LA because the downtown art scene is so vibrant, there is cheap living and you can really flourish as an artist there. There is an unbelievably supportive and really smart, talented theatre audience in LA full of young, hungry, vibrant people. It's something that sort of makes me think of what New York must have been like in its downtown theater scene in the 1980s - before my time.” PeopleThinkingHas BeensArtYoungArtistAudienceNew YorkSceneSmartTheaterTheatreHungryMy TimeSupportiveGreat ArtGreat ArtistDowntownReally Smart Author:Jon Bernthal
“I started playing guitar when I was in eighth grade, and that led to trying to write songs and trying to figure out how to play in bands. That led to meeting people, and getting into the local punk rock scene, and going to shows. So that was how I really got into the culture of it.” PeopleWritingTryingPlayShowsSongCultureRocksFiguresSceneBandMeetingsGuitarLocalsGradesPunkPunk RockPlaying GuitarEighth Grade Author:Chris McCaughan
“My vision of punk rock was these dudes who were spitting on the audience and moshing. That's why I kind of left that scene. Then I see all these people around my same age or between 17 and 25 that were making music themselves in their own town. They weren't just singing, but creating. I see them putting out this music where there are tons of women involved in the scene and involved in the bands.” PeopleKindAgeLeftVisionAudienceRocksInvolvedSceneBandCreatingSingingTownsPunkPunk Rock Author:Kathleen Hanna
“Even with college, the reason I wanted to go so badly is because I wanted to major in film. I want to take screenwriting classes and learn more about behind the scenes stuff, because I love people like Steve Carell and Kristen Wiig who are able to write a lot of their own material and be so involved in everything they do.” PeopleWantWritingReasonAbleWantedFilmStuffBehindsClassCollegeMaterialsInvolvedSceneMajorsBehind The ScenesScreenwriting Author:Miranda Cosgrove
“I couldnt really relate to the fraternity or party scene, to the people out in the mall every day protesting one thing or another. I felt like there was no one I could relate to.” PeopleFeltPartyOne ThingSceneRelateMallsFraternity Author:Charlie Trotter
“People in Philadelphia are a world apart from New York. They're very different from people in the New York scene. The New York scene wants your visibility and wants your money.” PeopleWorldWantDifferentNew YorkScenePhiladelphiaVisibilityWorlds Apart Author:John Gutfreund
“Any time you can be with like-minded people, laughing or crying over the same joke or the same scene... For me it's therapeutic. You just feel a little less alone on the planet.” PeopleFeelsLittlesLaughingCryPlanetsSceneJokesTherapeutic Author:Michael De Luca
“Various people have put forth that love is the scene of two, that it's not about unity, it's about two absolutely disjunct positions encountering each other. So here, even with something like sex-- what [that song's] about-- you could never become one.” PeopleTwoSexLove IsPositionSceneUnityVarious Author:John Maus
“I love when people improvise as long as they're great improvisers, what I mean by that is people can improvise within their characters and within the scene.” PeopleMeanLongCharacterScene Author:Scot Armstrong
“There is no such thing as too ordinary to write about, whether that's life or a scene in a novel. What's interesting to people, whether it's memoir or fiction, is the truth.” PeopleWritingInterestingFictionNovelSceneOrdinaryMemoir Author:Augusten Burroughs
“I always want another actor to shine in my scene because it makes the film stronger. I would encourage people to scene steal, because filmmaking is a collaborative effort.” PeopleWantFilmActorsEffortSceneStrongerShiningStealingFilmmakingCollaborative Effort Author:Vin Diesel
“Trusting as we did to the virtue of the people, the real people, not the politicians and demagogues, we passed through the most responsible and trying scenes, sustained by the bone and sinew of the nation, the laborers of the land, where alone, in these days of Bank rule, and ragocrat corruption, real virtue and love of liberty is to be found.” PeopleTryingRealFoundNationsLibertyVirtueLandPoliticianSceneAnd LoveResponsibleWorkersCorruptionBonesThese DaysLaborers Author:Andrew Jackson
“In Goya's greatest scenes we seem to see the people of the world exactly at the moment when they first attained the title of 'suffering humanity” PeopleWorldFirstsMomentsSeemsSufferingHumanitySceneTitlesGoya Book:A Coney Island of the Mind: Poems Source: A Coney Island of the Mind: Poems
“I had to get a driver's license and drive to St. Louis to find the punk-rock scene that was happening there. And there was a punk-rock scene. It was sweet. It was real. It was like everywhere else in the county. It was a handful of people who were feeling the same pull, and, of course, it was like the Island of Misfit Toys in Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer [1964]. Just the freaks, the fags, the fat girls, the unbelievable eccentrics .” PeopleRealFeelingsGirlCoursesRocksSweetSceneHappeningsRedFatsIslandsDriversFreakPunkToysUnbelievableLicenseHandfulCountyPunk RockMisfitsReindeerFat GirlRudolphRudolph The Red Nosed Reindeer Author:Michael Stipe
“If in the sex scene you happen to be naked in front of a lot of other people you've just got to put that aside, in the same way that you have to put that aside in a fully-clothed intense dialogue scene because you're entering into that particular imaginative state of play.” PeopleIfsWayStatesPlayHappensSexFrontsParticularSceneIntenseDialogueNakedEnteringImaginative Author:Geoffrey Rush
“I have the impression that the new generation of young people, are coming up on the scene with a sense "ancestorhood", and with more wisdom than was evident before.” PeopleYoungGenerationsSceneImpressionEvidentNew Generation Author:Jonas Salk
“I love making people uncomfortable, and when people say, 'I cringed watching [that] scene,' that's the biggest compliment you can give me.” PeopleLoveGivingSceneGive MeUncomfortableComplimentLove MakingCompliments You Author:Allison Williams
“People don't live their lives in a series of scenes that form a dramatic narrative, they don't speak in dialogue, they're not lit by a cinematographer or scored by a composer. The properties of real life and the properties of drama have almost nothing to do with each other. The difference between writing about reporters and being a reporter is the same as the difference between drawing a building and building a building.” PeopleLifeWritingRealFormSpeakDifferencesBuildingDramaScenePropertySeriesDrawingReal LifeDialogueNarrativeDramaticComposerReportersLitCinematographers Author:Aaron Sorkin
“I'm from Louisiana, and that's where I got my start, in Cajun music. There's a huge music scene down there centered around our culture. Those are people that are not making music for a living. They are making music for the fun of it. And I think that's the best way I could have been introduced to music.” PeopleThinkingWayHas BeensCultureFunHugeSceneBest WayCould Have BeenLouisianaCajuns Author:Hunter Hayes
“I love doing film soundtracks and working with directors on how they want the scene to be portrayed on audio as opposed to visual. I like the collaborative effort of working with people.” PeopleWantFilmEffortSceneDirectorsVisualsSoundtracksAudioCollaborative Effort Author:Al Jourgensen
“I structure the scripts and work on them on films and work on scenes with writers and but I haven't written a script myself, I really respect what they do and I'm fortunate I get to work with people that I really enjoy working with and we all kind of spitball and work together on these things, but I haven't written a script yet.” PeopleKindTogetherFilmEnjoyWrittenHavensSceneStructureScriptsAll KindsFortunateWorking Together Author:Tom Cruise
“I am of the generation of writers who can get instant feedback from readers within hours of publication. The fan forum is extraordinary - readers from all over the world coming together to discuss, argue and debate scenes and characters from a novel. They add a layer to the story that I cannot write and yes, I will participate in that conversation and answer questions. After all, they are the people I'm writing for and their enthusiasm and questions really pushes me to raise the bar.” PeopleWorldWritingCharacterStoriesTogetherHoursAnswersNovelGenerationsFansReaderSceneConversationRaisesAddExtraordinaryArguingDebateBarsEnthusiasmInstantLayersFeedbackPublicationForumsComing TogetherRaising The Bar Author:Michael Scott
“I only ever privately tell people stuff for the scene. And I often ask what they feel is right. Normally, by the time that we're filming, if it doesn't work, it always the script.” PeopleIfsFeelsAsksStuffSceneScriptsWorking It Author:Richard Ayoade
“Of course, I'm a dancer. Dancing grabbed me from the start and I have was never afraid to do it. With out dance I wouldn't be singing. I want to expose people to the underground dance scene through music.” PeopleWantCoursesSceneSingingDancingDancer Author:Jillian Hervey
“I think that even in a drama, we all want to smile, and laugh because what a horrible life if we're just like "I'm in a drama." And so I think in everything you're trying to look for the humor, even if it's a dark scene, because most people want to have fun in life, as opposed to have a boring time, a terrible time.” PeopleIfsThinkingWantTryingLooksFunDarkLaughingTerribleDramaSceneBoringHorribleHaving FunSmile And LaughTerrible TimesHorrible Life Author:David Koechner
“Sometimes, a scene goes on too long and, with this being a suspense story and murder mystery that you're trying to discover through her heightened paranoia, you don't want scenes that take you on a tangent. Sometimes, you love those scenes, but you know that it's better not to be in the overall film. So, I'm not sad that they're not in the main movie, but I do think it's fun for people to get to watch them, if they want to.” PeopleIfsThinkingKnowsWantTryingLongSometimesStoriesFilmFunWatchesMysteryGoes OnSceneMurderSuspenseParanoiaMurder Mysteries Author:Catherine Hardwicke
“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
“There's a lot of time sitting in movies, so you can put alligators in people's trailers in your spare time. So it [making a film] moves slower, which in some ways is great, because you can live with a scene and invest in it a lot. And in some ways it's hard, because sometimes you can start to lose your energy a little bit, but both are fun.” PeopleWayLittlesSometimesHardFilmMovingEnergyFunBitsLosesSceneLittle BitSittingSparesTrailersSpare TimeAlligators Author:Mary-Louise Parker
“When bands come from that underground scene and go into the mainstream, people just hate it. And it blows my mind. If you're saying you don't like what pop culture is, then change it. And when someone does make an effort to change it, everyone rebels against it and hates it. You can't win. People just want that division to exist. They don't want that division to go away.” PeopleIfsWantMindDoeHateCultureWinningEffortSceneBandBlowPopsGoing AwayDivisionRebelMainstreamPop CultureCan't Win Author:Laura Jane Grace
“The first job I ever did in the theatre, I was supposed to be a genius piano player. I couldn't play the piano, but you just sit there at a piano like you're playing, and suddenly all this amazing music comes out and the audience believes you can do it. It's the same with computers. I love scenes where there are people yanking at monitors, "yes I'll put you through now," and you know they're just doing that. But you can look brilliant at all this technology. I love it.” PeopleKnowsFirstsBelieveLooksPlayJobsCan DoTechnologyAudiencePlayerLike YouGeniusSceneComputerTheatreBrilliantSupposed To BePianoYou Can Do ItBelieve You CanAmazing Music Author:Michael Sheen
“The actor has to have some degree of craft, along with the talent. No one tries to laugh except bad actors. No one tries to cry except bad actors. How a character hides his feelings tells us who he is. Most people don't know that, and most actors don't do that. Therefore, there are a lot of actors who put me to sleep, that are considered good actors, but they're predictable and boring. I know how the scene is going to end before it ends.” PeopleKnowsTryingEndsCharacterFeelingsActorsSleepLaughingKnow HowTalentCrySceneDegreesBoringCraftsPredictableGood Actors Author:Martin Landau
“During improvisations, I'll hear people bringing back up details from something I heard about at breakfast or something somebody was saying that they were thinking about, and it informs a rewriting of a scene.” PeopleThinkingHeardSceneDetailsBreakfastImprovisationRewriting Author:Joe Swanberg
“I'm out doing my deal, I'm turning people on. What's wrong with taking people away from their everyday mundane situation and having a good, fun night for an hour and a half at a rock'n'roll scene?” PeopleNightFunHoursDealsHalfSituationRocksSceneEverydayRock N RollMundaneGood FunFun Night Author:Ozzy Osbourne
“You never really know what the director has got in his mind as far as the scene visually and art direction wise, etc. Even if you do, sometimes there's a side of things that don't necessarily gel the way people intend. So there a bit of a mystical entity, film.” PeopleIfsKnowsWayMindArtSometimesFilmBitsSidesWiseSceneDirectorsEtcEntityMysticalArt Direction Author:Guy Pearce
“I learned how to let other performers have their moment. A lot of people can't do that. They just chew the scenery and steamroll over their scene partners. It doesn't make you look better in the long run to do that. You have to have balance in your scene. If it's somebody else's moment, let them have it. Learn how to be generous. Plus, it makes the audience hate you.” PeopleIfsLooksLongMomentsRunningHateAudienceBalanceScenePartnersGenerousPlusPerformersLong RunsHate YouScenery Author:Wendi McLendon-Covey
“I feel like you are this or that because other people say so. I wouldn't know how to play a psychopath. I don't think about it that way. You think about playing the scene but if the other people say that guy is crazy, then you are.” PeopleIfsThinkingKnowsWayFeelsPlayGuyKnow HowCrazyLike YouSceneThat GuyPsychopath Author:Christopher Walken
“Even when other powers have been lost and people may not even be able to understand language, they will nearly always recognize and respond to familiar tunes. And not only that. The tunes may carry them back and may give them memory of scenes and emotions otherwise unavailable for them.” PeopleGivingMayHas BeensAbleLostLanguageMemoriesEmotionSceneFamiliarTunes Author:Oliver Sacks
“I always feel super uncomfortable when it's like ah, there probably has to be a sex scene. I feel really bad and then always look around to see if anyone is watching me while I'm writing. I want to apologize to people who have to read those sex scenes, but I feel like it's part of the characters life, it's important.” PeopleIfsWantFeelsWritingLooksImportantCharacterSexSceneUncomfortableApologizing Author:Joe Meno
“You don't have ideas when you're sitting in that sort of sterile little place, and you're not around people. The most boring scenes are the scenes where a character is alone. I just need that dynamic of other people around me to get my work done.” PeopleNeedsLittlesIdeasDoneCharacterSceneSittingBoringWork Done Author:Chuck Palahniuk
“I think most of us can remember from our own childhood, just in the Disney cartoons, things that frightened us profoundly. For me it was Bambi, the scene when the forest was on fire. That was something I had nightmares about. I can't imagine being a little kid of eight and seeing Night Of The Living Dead with living corpses eating the flesh of living people.” PeopleThinkingLittlesI CanKidsRememberNightFireImagineSeeingChildhoodSceneEatingEightFleshForestsNightmareFrightenedCartoonLittle KidCorpsesNight Of The Living DeadDisney Cartoon Author:Stephen King