“I have never lived in New York City, but a lot of people think that I am a New Yorker, because I was embraced by the Downtown scene since the 1980s. For the record I was born and raised in Los Angeles, California.” PeopleThinkingBornCitiesRecordsNew YorkSceneRaisedCaliforniaLos AngelesNew York CityNew YorkersDowntownBorn And Raised Author:Vaginal Davis
“Strangely, I always have a lot of cut scenes. I keep writing shorter and shorter scripts, thinking that this time, I'll get all my scenes in.” ThinkingWritingCuttingSceneScripts Author:David Twohy
“A great discipline comes with knowing that everyone's very focused. I've never shot a scene thinking, I wonder if this will make it. Every scene I shoot, I know that it's going to make it into the final cut.” IfsThinkingKnowsWonderKnowingCuttingDisciplineSceneShotsFinalsFocused Author:Jeremy Bolt
“We are all from different cultures. Heath's [Ledger] Australian, really. I'm from here. Ang's [Lee] from China. But I think Ang gets very close in preproduction and rehearsals. And then he allows his actors - I don't think scared of actors, but I think he's scared of getting in on the scenes he's watching. The space he's watching. So he just totally disconnects from you while you're shooting.” ThinkingDifferentCultureActorsSpaceSceneScaredChinaShootingRehearsalAustralianDifferent Cultures Author:Jake Gyllenhaal
“I remember watching Meryl Streep in, The River Wild. There's this scene where she's has a gun pointed at her, it's absurd in a lot of ways. Someone pulls a gun on her I think, I'm not really fully aware of the scene and she just, she starts, you see her terrified. And then all of a sudden she starts to burst out laughing. She starts laughing. Like she can't stop laughing. Because she's terrified and she's emotional and there are no rules to what you're supposed to feel. That to me is like A number one, that's the thing I have to remind myself all the time.” ThinkingWayFeelsRememberNumbersLaughingEmotionalSceneGunRiversAbsurdTerrified Author:Jake Gyllenhaal
“I think drugs played a big role in the Taboo scene. People were taking copious amounts of ecstasy, which had filtered over from New York, and at a certain point you were more likely to spend most of the night in the toilets at the club.” PeopleThinkingBigsNightCertainRolesNew YorkAmountSceneDrugClubsEcstasyToiletsTaboo Author:Boy George
“When I'm on the set, I take five minutes to find the best angle for a scene, and then we just shoot it and it looks exactly what you see on screen because I don't touch it afterwards. I never think about it, before being on the set. That's my thing. I love to be stuck.” ThinkingLooksFiveMinutesSceneScreensStuckAngleFive MinutesThings I Love Author:Quentin Dupieux
“It is captivating, isn't it? England has such a great scene of electronic music, and I think that was very prominent in Pusher, and the nightlife was the beat of the film. I feel what is really great about Pusher is that it wasn't about drugs and guns and strippers. That was just all circumstantial. I felt like it was really about people and how decisions and circumstances can change relationships. Something just happens. Everything changes for a reason.” PeopleThinkingFeelsReasonHappensFilmFeltDecisionCircumstancesSceneDrugBeatsGunEnglandReally GreatThings ChangeProminentElectronic MusicCaptivatingNightlife Author:Agyness Deyn
“There is a way of ordering our mental life on more than one level at once. On one level we can be thinking, discussing, seeing, calculating, meeting all the demands of external affairs, but deep within, behind the scenes at a profounder level we may also be in prayer and adoration, song and worship and a gentle receptiveness to divine breathings.” ThinkingWayMaySongPrayerLevelsBehindsSeeingDivineSceneDemandWorshipMeetingsAffairBreathingGentleAdorationDiscussingDeep WithinBehind The ScenesCalculating Author:Thomas Raymond Kelly
“It's hard work. It's really hard work, but it's really interesting. We have this camera, I think it's called a SimulCam, and when you play it back, you can see the giant in the scene you just shot. It's incredible. You're reacting to a tennis ball that's way up there, then when you watch it, it's this huge giant's face on it. Wow. That's cool. I just can't wait to see it when it's all edited together and the special effects are all crystal clear. It's going to be, hopefully, amazing.” ThinkingWayHardPlayTogetherFacesWaitingInterestingWatchesClearSpecialEffectsHard WorkHugeSceneShotsBallsCamerasIncrediblesHopefullyGiantsTennisWorking ItWowCrystalsReally InterestingReactingSpecial EffectsEditedTennis Balls Author:Eleanor Tomlinson
“Walter is incredibly complex. I do a lot of thinking about the work I do, and try to get the rhythms of scenes.” ThinkingTryingSceneComplexesRhythm Author:John Noble
“Bill [Condon] is such a great actor's director. He cares about what you're thinking. And, he's very open. Even though he was pressed for time, and he was doing two movies at once, and all this stuff was happening around him, he would still take time to sit there and talk to you about your scene and your character and what you were going through. That was really a treat.” ThinkingStillsTwoCharacterCareActorsStuffSceneDirectorsHappeningsTreatsBillsTake TimeGreat Actors Author:Kellan Lutz
“There's an economy in sports that I always think is a useful metaphor for acting. You have an objective. You're trying to win, and of course, you want to do well. You want to use good techniques so you enforce it, but also you don't do things you don't have to do. It's very economical, and I think that in acting the most economical way through a scene is always the best. It's active. There is the sense of the fight and you want to win.” ThinkingWayWantTryingWellsUseFightingCoursesWinningSportsActingEconomySceneMetaphorActiveTechniqueObjectives Author:Greta Gerwig
“Emily and I have some funny scenes where we quarrel and it gets quite heated, the mother-daughter relationship. You know, film mothers and daughters adore each other. And some don't. But how could you not love Emily Blunt? But I think I'm just one of those people who's always discontented.” PeopleThinkingKnowsFilmMotherSceneDaughterJust OneAdoreQuarrelsBluntEmilyMother DaughterMother And DaughterMother Daughter Relationship Author:Jacki Weaver
“It's very tricky to know when to stop. I think there are definitely moments where you feel that is the heart of a scene. When you're working on the script, you're looking for a handle on it.” ThinkingKnowsFeelsHeartMomentsSceneScriptsHandleTricky Author:Oliver Parker
“A lot of people think medicine hunting is all Chris trekking through the jungle. Or, for that matter, the chiefs and (male) elders he works with. The men get the headlines, but it's the women behind the scenes who are doing the planting and harvesting and chopping.” PeopleThinkingMenMatterBehindsHe ManSceneMedicineMalesChiefsHuntingJungleEldersHeadlinesTrekkingBehind The ScenesChoppingWorking Behind The Scenes Author:Zoe Helene
“I think it's very hard to be naked in a scene and not be upstaged by your nipples.” ThinkingHardSceneNakedNipples Author:Susan Sarandon
“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
“In the case of two actors connecting with each other and trusting each other, our bodies have memories without us having to consciously think about it, so rather than think, "Oh, I must think about my daughter dying," you just let that go and trust that you have all the emotions you need in there, and by losing yourself in the scene, that stuff kicks in without having to spend the day thinking about horrific things happening to your own child.” ThinkingNeedsChildrenTwoBodyActorsStuffMemoriesEmotionCasesDyingSceneLosingHappeningsDaughterThings HappenKicksMy DaughterConnectingLosing YourselfHorrificTrusting Each Other Author:Michael Sheen
“I don't think any actors love taking their clothes off on film, unless you're an exhibitionist, which I'm certainly not. Those are the scenes that you actually dread doing. But, so much more goes into this role. As an actress, it's all about reality, and I'm not a prude. I'm not someone who judges other people for taking their clothes off for roles. I'm not going to show everything, but nudity here or there doesn't faze me.” PeopleThinkingShowsRealityFilmActorsRolesJudgingSceneClothesActressesDreadNudityExhibitionistPrudes Author:Tamsin Egerton
“I think I was a militant smoker, and I felt hemmed in by a wall of political correctness and I think I purposely and militantly put the smoking scenes in the movies.” ThinkingPoliticalFeltWallSceneSmokingPolitical CorrectnessCorrectnessMilitantSmokers Author:Chris Hayes
“The reason that I'm here is that Patrick and I are partners and when crazy stuff comes our way we'll sit down and brainstorm and think around it just like we do when we're thinking about a scene. So, while the masters might not understand my being here, or at least they didn't at first, but they do now because we really are a partnership. If he's on set I'm on set.” IfsThinkingWayFirstsReasonMightStuffCrazyMastersSceneDown AndPartnersPartnership Author:Todd Farmer
“My dressing room was right on the water, and I would climb out of my window and walk around on the roof, whenever I needed time to think, or whenever I couldn't get a scene together. My father even came out there on the roof with me. We just walked around and talked up there, just to get away from everything, and nobody could get to us there. I really do love that place very much. It holds a very deep-rooted place in my heart.” ThinkingHeartTogetherFatherWaterWalksRoomsNeededMy HeartSceneWindowClimbsGet AwayRootedRoofDressingsVery DeepTime To ThinkDressing Rooms Author:Angie Harmon
“Whereas, if you have a longer scene, then you have momentum to build it up. I thought I sucked, but Chris Weitz is an actor, so he understands that process and that you can get nervous in it, and he can look beyond that. Or, it was just me and I was over-thinking the entire thing.” IfsThinkingLooksActorsProcessSceneNervousMomentum Author:Tinsel Korey
“Even though she's dealing with a scar, Emily just carries on with life. It's not a big deal. While we were shooting the scene, I tried it different ways. I tried it where I was hiding my face, and Chris [Weitz] was like, "Let's try it where she doesn't care," and that's who she is. She doesn't care what anybody else thinks.” ThinkingWayTryingDifferentBigsCareFacesDealsSceneShootingDifferent WaysCarrieHidingScarBig DealEmily Author:Tinsel Korey
“It's so not sexy and intimate. There are 40 people in the room. There's a guy with his belly hanging out, with a boom in your face. It's really very technical. I think doing a love scene is tougher than doing a fight scene. It's so staged and you can't put light on her face and you have to hit the mark.” PeopleThinkingLightFacesGuyFightingRoomsSceneMarkSexyIntimateHanging OutYour FaceBelly Author:Boris Kodjoe
“Once there are more African Americans and Asian Americans behind the scenes as producers, writers, and directors, I think more inclusive casting will happen.” ThinkingHappensBehindsSceneDirectorsProducersAfrican AmericanCastingAsianBehind The ScenesAsian American Author:Nicole Ari Parker
“I think I began getting really influenced by that whole punk scene around the age of 13 or 14-I went through that whole thing like the shaved head. I was always interested in what people called "the darker side," whatever that was, and the kind of look that you would see in the old horror films. So I let that become more of my persona.” PeopleThinkingLooksKindWholeAgeFilmSidesHorrorScenePunkPersonaHorror FilmDarker SideShaved Head Author:Rozz Williams
“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
“We always need to have someone help with videos, I think all of our DVDs could've been better but our music video, I love all the music videos, but the actual behind-the-scenes and stuff of our music video DVD, it was rushed and didn't turn out great.” ThinkingNeedsHelpingTurnsStuffBehindsSceneVideoDvdsBehind The Scenes Author:Jess Margera
“I eat broccoli. I think about the plot. I pace in circles for hours, counter-clockwise, listening to music. I try to think of one detail in the scene I'm about to write that I'm really excited about writing. Until I can come up with that one detail, I pace.” ThinkingWritingTryingI CanHoursListeningSceneCome UpDetailsExcitedCirclesPlotPaceListening To MusicBroccoli Author:Matthew Tobin Anderson
“I think the first couple of times you do make-out scenes, you psych yourself out and it's really nerve racking.” ThinkingFirstsCoupleSceneNervesMake OutPsych Author:Hilarie Burton
“Sometimes they come to you and it's a small role, so it's about the experience and the journey and mixing with people you know you will learn from. Or sometimes it's a scene in a movie that you think, 'I just have to play this person.'” PeopleThinkingKnowsPersonsSometimesPlayRolesJourneySceneMixingSmall Roles Author:Naomi Watts
“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
“If you need to strap a camera to you or get in a small space, then it makes sense to use digital.I do think it is possible to use a digital camera artistically, but it can only be good if you are using film technique. Film has grain, and digital has pixels, and there is not that much of a difference, but digital does not replace the need to create a scene and light it properly and spend time considering the shot.” IfsThinkingNeedsDoeUseLightFilmDifferencesSpaceSceneShotsCamerasBe GoodTechniqueMake SenseDigitalGrainConsideringEnd TimesSpend TimeSmall SpacesDigital CamerasPixels Author:Vilmos Zsigmond
“I think that behind the scenes the Pope [Francis] is seen as more of a religious figure, but obviously he is sort of a global political figure.” ThinkingPoliticalReligiousBehindsFiguresScenePopeBehind The Scenes Author:Joy-Ann Reid
“I like it when characters are some combination of appealing and maybe flawed or self-interested. I think in terms of scenes, and what I want a scene to achieve, and I think that the psychological realism arises from that.” ThinkingWantSelfCharacterTermAchieveSceneArisePsychologicalCombinationRealismFlawed Author:Curtis Sittenfeld
“Every day, every scene, you were like, "My god. I'm doing a scene with Brian Cox today and then I'm onto a scene with Stephen Rea." For us young actors, I think we were all very, very star-struck and impressed by the caliber of everyone who came out.” ThinkingTodayYoungActorsStarsSceneImpressedBrianYoung ActorsCaliber Author:James Norton
“have a much harder time writing stories than novels. I need the expansiveness of a novel and the propulsive energy it provides. When I think about scene - and when I teach scene writing - I'm thinking about questions. What questions are raised by a scene? What questions are answered? What questions persist from scene to scene to scene?” ThinkingNeedsWritingStoriesEnergyTeachNovelSceneHarderRaisedPersistWriting StoriesExpansiveness Author:Edan Lepucki
“I think that sharpens the intention of a scene and clarifies a story's arc. Of course, I don't seek the questions until after I've written a scene - or maybe after I've daydreamed it.” ThinkingStoriesCoursesWrittenSceneIntentionArcs Author:Edan Lepucki
“You don't write the kitchen scene just because you're eager to do it that day and you're avoiding something else. I think it has to move slowly, step by step. I pride myself on the construction of my stories but it's not something I impose on them.” ThinkingWritingStoriesMovingStepsPrideSceneKitchenConstructionAvoiding Author:T.C. Boyle
“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
“World music evokes a feeling. You don't have to think about the scene that it comes from.” ThinkingWorldFeelingsSceneEvokeWorld Music Author:St. Lucia
“My natural inclination is to think in scenes. So that's how I write, and the issue for me is usually: what to compress for speed.” ThinkingWritingNaturalIssuesSceneSpeedInclination Author:Leigh Newman
“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'll never forget reading Chekhov's "A Doctor's Visit" on a train to Hawthorne, New York, and I got to the end - the scene where the patient says goodbye to the doctor and she puts a flower in her hair as a kind of thank you to him - and I felt like a cowboy shot from a canyon's top. This is a different experience from reading a novel, I think. The emotional effect is cumulative. Let's just hope market forces don't send short fiction the way of the dinosaur, because their sales are paltry compared to the novel and this is truly unfortunate.” ThinkingWayKindDifferentEndsReadingForceFeltForgetFictionNovelEffectsNew YorkEmotionalFlowerHairSceneShotsDoctorsTrainPatientGoodbyeNever ForgetUnfortunateCowboySaying GoodbyeDinosaursCanyonsCumulativeDifferent ExperiencesChekhovHawthorne Author:Adam Ross
“I know when I watch a film at this point, if I completely lose myself in the characters and the story and the world of the film I know that it's at least in my opinion, that was great. Otherwise I'm thinking: "Oh I know they were just doing A, B and C, right before they walked into the scene, then the camera was there, then they probably took the shot from this reverse close-up and moved it into this." When all of that drops away then I'm like: "Okay this was phenomenal, this was fantastic." I mean, any film or TV performance in general is probably good.” IfsThinkingKnowsWorldMeanCharacterStoriesFilmLosesOpinionWatchesTvsSceneShotsOkayPerformancesCamerasMovedFantasticReversePhenomenal Author:Gabriel Mann
“I think there's just so much awesome music coming out of New Zealand, I've always loved The Naked And Famous, I absolutely love Ghost Wave... it just seems like there's a really cool scene happening out there, I'd love to go and spend some time there and see what other bands are popping up.” ThinkingSeemsSceneBandHappeningsWaveGhostNakedComing OutReally CoolNew ZealandPopping Author:Lizzy Plapinger
“Plot and scene are still the hardest things for me, though I think they're the building blocks of what makes a story work.” ThinkingStillsStoriesBuildingSceneHardestBlockPlotHardest ThingBuilding Blocks Author:Dan Chaon
“I think the most emotional part in making the movie and discovering the movie - because it was a process of discovering - is all the scenes with the family.” ThinkingProcessEmotionalSceneDiscovering Author:Oren Moverman