“My fans - I hate the word fans...my supporters - it's an international following that isn't from being in London and existing on the "scene." It came from being on the Internet, from being a teenager communicating with different artists, showing who I am, who KESH is, as well as connecting with other people around the world doing similar things.” PeopleWorldWellsDifferentArtistHateFansInternetSceneI HateInternationalFollowingCommunicateLondonWho I AmAround The WorldTeenagerSupporterConnectingBeing A Teenager Author:Kesh
“So many of my memories are generated by and organized around food: what I ate, what people cooked, what I cooked, what I ordered in a restaurant. My mental palate is also inextricably intertwined with the verbal part of my brain. Food, words, memories all twist together, so it was the obvious way to structure my life. Each memory of food opened up an entire scene for me, it was the key that unlocked everything.” PeopleWayTogetherMemoriesBrainKeysSceneStructureObviousOrganizedRestaurantsTwistsPalateIntertwined Author:Kate Christensen
“When you reflect upon the significance of Dr. King to this nation, it's criminal that he hasn't had a feature film that was centered around him until now. That, in and of itself, was emotional. But when you're doing scenes on the Edmund Pettus Bridge, with people still living in Selma and now in their 60s and 70s who had actually marched, who were there that original Bloody Sunday, that's humbling... that's deeply moving. You're no longer acting at that stage, you're just reacting, because it takes the filmmaking process to another dimension.” PeopleStillsFilmMovingNationsProcessActingStageEmotionalKingsSceneOriginalsCriminalsBridgesFeaturesDimensionsSundaySignificanceFilmmakingBloodyDrsReactingHumbling Author:David Oyelowo
“You make the choice. You look at each scene and you make sure that this is not a person deceiving people.” PeopleLooksPersonsChoicesSceneDeceiving Author:Gary Cole
“It's always best not to be thinking a hell of a lot while you're acting, because you want it to be as spontaneous as possible, not too intellectual. Just behaving and listening to other people who you're doing scenes with. I always like the latter when it looks easy, even though it may not be.” PeopleThinkingWantLooksMayEasyActingHellListeningSceneIntellectualLatterSpontaneousListening To Others Author:Gary Cole
“All the scenes that have to do with the fact that, at the end of the day, we're all engaged - hopefully some of us - in certain causes and ideals and certain ways of living, but we're human, and we're making all these mistakes, and we're caught in particular systems - whatever it is - but ultimately, there's a price paid by the people that are closest to you.” PeopleWayHumansEndsFactsCertainCausesMistakeParticularSceneIdealsPaidCaughtHopefullyEngagedThe End Of The DayClosest Author:Oren Moverman
“Very few people actually saw Andy's films like Chelsea Girls where he filmed seven hours, ran it on two screens, where each scene was in a different room at the Chelsea Hotel with these people he called 'Superstars" who were basically super-exhibitionists - the guy in one room high on LSD talking about masturbation, Brigid Berlin in another room playing a lesbian and shooting up people with amphetamines right through their jeans, it was all real and they were really doing it (though Brigid is now a proper lady), but you know Andy really did pre-date reality TV.” PeopleKnowsTwoDifferentRealRealityFilmGuyGirlHoursRoomsTalkingSawsTvsSceneSevenScreensShootingRanHotelJeansBerlinSuperstarMasturbationReality TvChelseaLsdExhibitionistAmphetaminesShooting Up Author:Bob Colacello
“In the future, I think you are going to want to capture a whole scene, a room, to be able to transport to that. To be able to stream what you are doing live and have people be able to interact in that space.” PeopleThinkingWantWholeAbleSpaceRoomsSceneStreamsCaptureTransport Author:Mark Zuckerberg
“And even being in the middle of it, at the LVMH group with Dior, there are certain parts of it that I'm just not really in, because it's not in me or my nature. The whole scene around it, the events, the photography ... It's never really been my thing. But I don't take a critical position on people who are very much about that either.” PeopleWholeCertainGroupsMiddleEventsPositionScenePhotographyCriticalDior Author:Raf Simons
“In the '90s, people wore scrunchies, but it was very uncool in the punk scene.” PeopleScenePunkUncool Author:Kathleen Hanna
“Most times you do a movie every place except for what the camera sees is just a mess with the lights, people, and cameras so you get used to it. There is no way to shut that out, there is always a constant reminder of how many people it takes, what is going on and how many elements that goes into making this scene look right.” PeopleWayLooksLightUsedSceneElementsCamerasConstantMessReminders Author:Jeremy Sisto
“I remember when people said, "Man, that's a powerful scene in the movie!" and I was like, "We just shot this thing before lunch, I don't know, he tears a log apart, I said some words".” PeopleKnowsMenSaidRememberPowerfulTearsSceneShotsLunchRemember When Author:Robert Downey, Jr.
“People are appreciating the old stuff again and there's no MTV-style scene police to try to make us all listen to Machine Head and Pantera *puke*!” PeopleTryingStuffStyleSceneAppreciateMachinesPoliceMtvPukeOld StuffPantera Author:Mat McNerney
“I really like the Chris-R scene and of course the "you are tearing me apart Lisa" scene. The reason I love the Chris-R scene is because we worked really hard to finish it. It's not just that though, it brings people together. Everyone is one the roof together by the end of the scene. You see the perspectives of the different characters. I feel like with all the connections in this scene that the room connects the entire world” PeopleWorldFeelsDifferentEndsHardReasonCharacterTogetherCoursesRoomsPerspectiveSceneConnectionsRoofDifferent Characters Author:Tommy Wiseau
“I love a lot of people in bands and people doing weird art stuff, but i will always forget someone and i don't really want to be part of stamping the boundaries on a scene.” PeopleWantArtStuffForgetSceneBandBoundariesForgetting Someone Author:Brian Chippendale
“I like to read. I've become obsessed with fiction. And it's too bad: I'm a musician many people love and I myself am not part of the music scene.” PeopleFictionSceneMusicianObsessed Author:Glenn Branca
“The U.S. is telling the Northern Alliance to kill Taliban prisoners. It's totally a breach of all the known conventions of war. Western television networks aren't showing this, but Arab networks are showing how prisoners are being killed and what's being done to them. Instead, we're shown scenes that are deliberately created for the Western media: a few women without the veil, a woman reading the news on Kabul television, and 150 people cheering.” PeopleWarDoneReadingKnownMediaTelevisionSceneNewsWesternPrisonerCheerConventionsVeilsAlliancesTalibanBeing DoneBreachKabulWestern Media Author:Tariq Ali
“I think people need to understand that deep learning is making a lot of things, behind-the-scenes, much better. Deep learning is already working in Google search, and in image search; it allows you to image search a term like "hug."” PeopleThinkingNeedsTermBehindsSceneHugGoogleBehind The ScenesDeep LearningGoogle Search Author:Geoffrey Hinton
“[Bob] Dylan began to incorporate things into that scene that were controversial then. He got shouted at in Newport when he played electric guitar, for instance. There was a certain purity that was sought among those people.” PeopleCertainSceneGuitarInstancePurityBobElectricDylanControversialElectric Guitar Author:T Bone Burnett
“I think about Dischord. There's been a pretty consistent notion that Dischord have been some sort of "overlords" of the scene. Some people have felt 'they are too cool for us,' or 'they won't put this out,' etc. All we're doing is our own work, our own thing. That's all we've ever done. Our work.” PeopleThinkingHas BeensDoneFeltSceneNotionConsistentEtcToo Cool Author:Ian MacKaye
“We were in front of a live audience and I would be acting with the man who was playing my lover, and we used those words, and the audience would titter and laugh, and make me uncomfortable doing the scenes. ... I wanted to sort of stop and yell at them, "What's so funny? What's the matter with you people? Grow up!" It made me very self-conscious at times.” PeopleMenMadeSelfMatterWould BeWantedUsedGrowsActingAudienceLaughingGrowing UpFrontsHe ManLoversSceneConsciousUncomfortableSelf ConsciousMy Lover Author:Billy Crystal
“When you're the guy behind the camera, you're aware of the reasons for the compromises or the changes that get made. As an actor, you go and do your thing, and someone else down the line then does all the math and goes, "We can't include that thing where he's pretending to be dumb and needling those people, because it takes a minute and a half, and it ruins the next scene. It doesn't make sense." If you're directing, you're the one doing that.” PeopleIfsDoeMadeReasonGuyNextActorsLinesBehindsHalfMinutesSceneCamerasMathCompromiseRuinsDumbMake SensePretending Author:Casey Affleck
“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
“Often when something is going on behind the scenes and people fight for change, the fight will go on and on and on until they understand the mechanism that they're actually fighting against.” PeopleFightingBehindsGoes OnSceneMechanismBehind The Scenes Author:Josh Tickell
“Then you have people coming up like Malcolm Bradbury, a relatively young writer who deals with the academic scene and deals with it, I think, brilliantly.” PeopleThinkingYoungDealsSceneAcademicYoung WritersBradbury Author:William Golding
“Emotions are the natural result of striving for something. Every single scene has two or more people in it, and nobody wants the same thing, so they are negotiating this one way or another. The result of that negotiation will bring out all kinds of emotional stuff in you.” PeopleWayWantKindTwoStuffNaturalResultsEmotionEmotionalSceneStriveAll KindsOne WayNegotiationNegotiating Author:William H. Macy
“Every scene has two people who want two different things, so there's conflict in every scene. You've got to duke it out, and you've got to get the other person to change his or her mind and do it your way.” PeopleWayWantMindPersonsTwoDifferentSceneConflictDifferent ThingsDukesTwo Different Things Author:William H. Macy
“That's pretty much what every scene is about, getting people to see your point of view. Sometimes you win, sometimes you lose.” PeopleSometimesWinningLosesViewsScenePoint Of View Author:William H. Macy
“When I'm taking the subway to my improv shows I will be writing in my notebook different actions that I see people doing on the train whether it's eating yogurt or looking at where their stop is, or tripping or holding a baby. It's not preparing scenes and ideas as much as it is stoking your brain to think observantly. Just to place observations in your head, so that they are available somewhere.” PeopleThinkingWritingIdeasDifferentShowsActionBrainBabySceneEatingTrainAvailableObservationPreparingNotebookSubwayYogurtTripping Author:Mike Birbiglia
“I've always listened to jazz or folk or blues. I was always listening to the prophets. I don't really go for...I don't know how to say anything about the singles scene without slamming people.” PeopleKnowsKnow HowListeningSceneJazzFolksProphetSay AnythingSingles Author:Van Morrison
“Usually, you have two people in a scene, and in the history of cinema the hero is most likely going to be the white guy. And the other guy is his friend who is carrying the bag or whatever, and you're not going to light for that guy.” PeopleTwoLightGuyWhiteHeroSceneCinemaBagsThat GuyOther GuysWhite Guys Author:Ava DuVernay
“A scene can be created when people are coming together. Either to shop or to hang out.” PeopleTogetherSceneShopsHanging OutComing Together Author:Eddy de Clercq
“I've always been quite good at watching someone do something and then picking it up, so I turned that talent to watching people on the film set, and just saw how small everything was and how intimate the scenes could be.” PeopleFilmSawsTalentSceneIntimateFilm Set Author:Luke Evans
“We did monologues and scenes, and New York I did a scene from Amadeus and a monologue from Pounding Nails in the Floor With My Forehead by Eric Bogosian, and then in L.A. I switched the scene to This is Our Youth and did the same monologue. I was spiky-haired, super skinny. A lot of people were like, "You should come here and do a sitcom." That was the feedback that I got. Obviously it was quite a different journey than the one I've actually had, but I just listened to people.” PeopleShouldDifferentJourneyNew YorkYouthLike YouSceneNailsFeedbackSkinnyForeheadsSitcomEricJust ListenMonologuesAmadeus Author:Zachary Quinto
“Tommy Nohilly, who plays Tubby [ Valley of Violence], he came down to see the movie for the first time and I was like, "You've got to come just to see people react to your [big scene]." I knew that would go well, but it's satisfying to me when he's sitting there and it actually does.” PeopleFirstsWellsDoePlayBigsViolenceLike YouSceneSittingFirst TimeValleysSatisfying Author:Ti West
“I don't want to make decisions about what I'm going to do before I'm doing it because I base my acting off my partner and off the other people in the scene.” PeopleWantDecisionActingScenePartnersAnd Off Author:Ewan McGregor
“I believe that unless it's a scene where I'm alone, then of course I could do what I want but I think good acting is about what happens between people, not on your face and my face.” PeopleThinkingWantBelieveHappensFacesCoursesI BelieveActingSceneYour FaceGood Acting Author:Ewan McGregor
“Sometimes when you do fight scenes you think, "Oh, I'll be hit in the face," because people get carried away with their vanity and want to look too cool to care, but we were all really careful with each other.” PeopleThinkingWantLooksSometimesCareFacesFightingSceneCarefulVanityCarried AwayToo Cool Author:Benedict Cumberbatch
“In the texts, and as His Holiness the Dalai Lama reminds us, we should check the person's behavior not when they're sitting on a big throne, but behind the scenes. How do they treat ordinary people - not the big sponsors - but just ordinary people who are of no particular importance to them.” PeopleShouldPersonsBigsBehindsParticularSceneBehaviorOrdinarySittingTreatsImportanceChecksHolinessThronesOrdinary PeopleBehind The ScenesSponsorsLamaDalai Author:Tenzin Palmo
“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
“What people think improvisation is and non-improvisation is, it's nothing to do with what you like or dislike. It's all about how it happens with certain directors and certain scenes. That's the way it works. It's not something, in general, that you can decide.” PeopleThinkingWayHappensCertainSceneDirectorsWorking ItDislikeImprovisation Author:Isabelle Huppert
“There will be scenes in a movie where people are walking through the park, or through a forest, and you're seeing the flickering leaves around them, and they're walking, but you're also hearing their words. It's an interaction between where they are and what they're saying that's both visual and verbal.” PeopleSeeingWalkingSceneHearingForestsParksVisualsInteraction Author:Lynne Rae Perkins
“When I get to work with people I admire, it's such a bonus, so it was an easy sell when I got this phone call asking, 'Will you do this thing with David Strathairn?'" Also, they didn't ask me to audition, which is another bonus. But they said, "All your scenes will be with David," and I said, "I'm there!"” PeopleSaidAsksEasySceneAskingSellsPhonesAdmireAsk MeAuditionsThey SaidPhone CallsBonus Author:Brent Spiner
“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
“I'm in a wonderful position now because the rise of the whole Houston scene, the scene that we've been doing for years that people really didn't embrace a long time ago and now they're embracing it. It's good to be in the middle of that during the uprising.” PeopleYearsLongWholeWonderfulMiddlePositionSceneLong TimeEmbraceLong Time AgoUprisingHouston Author:Chamillionaire
“Any music star would be singing about his lost love. A movie would be about a relatable incident; it wasn't an untouchable magic dragon box. It was something that people could relate to, and when I vanished a girl, it would be a story about a girl that left me, or a cutting into pieces would be a date with a magician. I wouldn't just vanish a girl in a shower, I would do the shower scene from Psycho [1960] with a [Alfred] Hitchcock cameo.” PeopleStoriesWould BeGirlLostLeftStarsPiecesCuttingMagicSceneSingingBoxesRelateDragonsLost LoveShowersMagician1960sIncidentsRelatablePsychoHitchcockUntouchablesCameos Author:Judd Apatow
“I reject totally the characterization of a transwoman as a mutilated man. First, that formulation presumes that men born into that sex assignment are not mutilated. Second, it once again sets up the feminist as the prosecutor of trans people. If there is any mutilation going on in this scene, it is being done by the feminist police force who rejects the lived embodiment of transwomen. That very accusation is a form of "mutilation" as is all transphobic discourse such as these.” PeopleIfsMenFirstsDoneFormForceSexBornScenePoliceFeministRejectsDiscourseTransAssignmentsEmbodimentAccusationBeing DoneProsecutorCharacterizationPolice ForceMutilation Author:Judith Butler
“It's true that I don't think I'd be a good director. If I were a director, I'd try to hire the best people I could and then leave them alone. I don't know much about cameras or lighting, so I'd make sure that I had a really good cameraman who understood lenses and lighting, and I say to him, "This is the scene we have to shoot and this is what I think it should be, you go do it." Same with actors. But really, very good directors who know everything do basically the same thing. They hire you and then they leave you alone.” PeopleIfsThinkingKnowsShouldTryingActorsSceneDirectorsUnderstoodCamerasVery GoodBe YouLensesLightingGood DirectorsCameraman Author:Christopher Walken
“I see no reason to believe that the Vietnamese Communist Party will lose control over the reins of power in Vietnam. There is no organized force in the country that is capable of competing with the VCP for power. And the party still believes that it must rule by intimidation and by dominating the political scene In effect, it has abandoned that part of Ho Chi Minh's legacy that the people must be won over by persuasion rather than by force - a dictum that Ho Chi Minh did not always follow himself.” PeopleBelieveStillsCountryReasonPoliticalForceLosesPartyEffectsSceneCapableLegacyOrganizedNo ReasonCommunistVietnamAbandonedCompetingPersuasionIntimidationReinsDominatingVietnameseCommunist Party Author:William J. Duiker
“It's an art installation to put out a collection, with the people behind the scenes who are inventing and creating these designs and making sure they're realized on the catwalk, and just how much hangs on it for the designers. Their livelihoods hang in the balance, as far as whether this year's collection works for them or not, and there are so many people's jobs on the line, as a result of that. I just had no idea.” PeopleYearsArtIdeasJobsLinesResultsBehindsDesignBalanceSceneCreatingNo IdeaDesignerCollectionsInventingLivelihoodBehind The ScenesInstallationCatwalk Author:Tom Riley