“When I first saw Destiny's Child, I was in the fifth grade, and it made me want to sing and make music and there would be these freestyles on the radio for what seemed like hours, it was just so cool to me. So all of these influences and these styles started to blend together. Eventually, that evolved into me finding the indie scene in Houston. When I was 19, I joined a rock band, and that's when I began to say, "Okay, this is something that I could take seriously."” WantFirstsChildrenMadeWould BeTogetherHoursDestinySawsInfluenceRocksStyleSceneBandFindingsOkayRadioGradesFifthHoustonRock BandsFreestyleFifth Grade Author:Lizzo
“When we wrote that scene about the Sleepy Kittens where he's reading the storybook to the kids, it's like we've had to read these stupid books to our kids, and we all want to just tell our kids, "This is really bad. Don't you know that? Can't you see that?"” KnowsWantBookKidsReadingStupidSceneKittenSleepy Author:Cinco Paul
“People say that you want to be varied in your career, and I've done so many things and am very appreciative. But, the one thing I've never done and wanted to do was to be a regular on a TV show, where you get 22 weeks of the year to develop and play a character. I've done arcs of five or eight episodes on shows, but I'd like to have a character that's rich enough and deep enough to want to explore and live with for a few years. Playing the same character, but doing different scenes seems very exciting to me.” PeopleWantYearsDifferentDoneEnoughPlayCharacterShowsSeemsWantedCareersRichFiveOne ThingWeekTvsSceneExcitingEightEpisodesTv ShowsArcsAppreciative Author:Jim Piddock
“I was having panic attacks. I didn't want to live that way anymore. I was in love and I wanted it to work. I was tired of travelling, tired of the whole scene, just tired. I sat around. I was lazy. I wanted a routine, and I wanted to wake up in the same bed every day, and I got my wish.” WayWantWholeWantedWishSceneBedWake UpTiredSatLazyRoutinePanicMy WishPanic Attacks Author:Linda Evangelista
“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
“You have a pre-conceived notion of what you want the scene to be, but once you get there, that goes out the window and it turns out to be a way that you never imagined.” WayWantTurnsSceneWindowNotionWhat You Want Author:Shailene Woodley
“Film and television are very different. On the TV show, we do seven or eight scenes a day, so time and money are of the essence, and we have zero room for creativity because you've got to do each scene in only five takes. Whereas, on a film, you have an entire day to film one scene, so you have so much time to choose how you want to fill in a scene.” WantDifferentShowsFilmRoomsCreativityFiveTelevisionTvsSceneEssenceSevenEightZeroTv ShowsTime And MoneyFilm And Television Author:Shailene Woodley
“As actors we always say that once the person in a scene gets what they want, the scene is over. It's resolved. But life is never resolved - you're always in the process.” WantPersonsLife IsActorsProcessSceneOver It Author:Lauren Graham
“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 comedy] you never want to leave the actors hanging out to dry. So you need to come up with funny individual stories for each character, and then you do this sort of comedy geometry, weaving them together. Once you've got a funny structure and you know why the scenes are funny, then you get super funny people to say your own lines, say their own lines, say things in their own way, and every scene is a live rewrite in front of the camera.” PeopleKnowsWayWantNeedsCharacterStoriesTogetherActorsIndividualLinesComedyFrontsSceneCamerasStructureCome UpDryHanging OutGeometryWeavingFunny PeopleSuper Funny Author:Jeff Schaffer
“I actually like acting in things that I'm directing because I'm able to control the tone of how a scene may go and I know, very clearly, what I want from myself in that scene and what I need, as far as from a directorial standpoint.” KnowsWantNeedsMayAbleActingSceneToneStandpoint Author:Eric Balfour
“But, as an actress, you don't want to run into these scenes, willy-nilly. The couple that I did do were important for the character and essential to the plot, to show what was actually going on between each character. It is great to be able to have that, and to be able to say certain things and have certain passions.” WantImportantCharacterShowsRunningAbleCertainPassionCoupleSceneEssentialsActressesPlot Author:Tamsin Egerton
“It's not like we were forced to do something we didn't want to do. I mean, when you see that scene you'll realize that we're really lucky that the weather came at us because now it has a lot more meaning that wasn't automatically there. There's some sort of undertones that wouldn't have existed had we shot it outside. So we got lucky on that and what we try to do is take whatever obstacles come our way and make them work in our favor.” WayWantTryingMeanRealizingSceneLuckyShotsObstaclesFavorsWeather Author:Todd Farmer
“We do want the freedom to move scenes from episode to episode to episode. And we do want the freedom to move writing from episode to episode to episode, because as it starts to come in and as you start to look at it as a five-hour movie just like you would in a two-hour movie, move a scene from the first 30 minutes to maybe 50 minutes in. In a streaming series, you would now be in a different episode. It's so complicated, and we're so still using the rules that were built for episodic television that we're really trying to figure it out.” WantWritingTryingFirstsLooksStillsTwoDifferentMovingHoursFiveMinutesFiguresTelevisionLike YouSceneBuiltSeriesComplicatedEpisodesStreaming Author:Jill Soloway
“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
“It's been cool to see on the Voice all these up-and-coming artists from all over the country just develop and follow their careers as well, because we were all at a beginning point together. Now, after seeing the business side and behind-the-scenes stuff, it's hard for me to watch reality TV and play along like they want you to.” WantWellsCountryHardPlayRealityTogetherArtistStuffSidesVoiceBehindsCareersWatchesSeeingTvsSceneReality TvBehind The Scenes Author:Curtis Grimes
“The thing is, when we do fight scenes, when we kill people in the movies, they bring in experts to choreograph it bit by bit, because you can't really kill someone, and you don't want to really hurt them.” PeopleWantFightingBitsHurtSceneExperts Author:Annabella Sciorra
“Sometimes I just want to write a really intense love scene. But I can't do that in my books for teens, or parents will complain - believe me, I've tried.” WantWritingBelieveI CanBookSometimesParentSceneComplainingIntenseTeensBelieve In MeIntense Love Author:Meg Cabot
“I didn't want to live in LA again, although I'd go back every couple of months to do an interview, usually with a heavy rock or metal band. And as the decade went on, so much of that scene had become totally corrupted by too much coke and money and silicone.” WantToo MuchRocksMonthsCoupleSceneBandHeavyDecadesInterviewsMetalsCokeMetal Band Author:Sylvie Simmons
“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
“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
“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
“It's just about trying to find material where I'm doing more than just being a plot device. I want to actually get to do scenes that go to interesting places and are challenging to me.” WantTryingChallengesInterestingMaterialsScenePlotDevicesJust BeingInteresting Places Author:Mary Elizabeth Winstead
“I don't want to show deleted scenes. I don't like an audience looking at what the movie might have been - if it's in the movie, it's in the movie.” IfsWantHas BeensShowsMightAudienceSceneMight Have Been Author:Kevin Spacey
“I don't know if you want to see the Everybody Loves Raymond guy in a nude scene.” IfsKnowsWantGuySceneEverybody Loves Raymond Author:Ray Romano
“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
“I want to sell tracks but at the same time I want to stay true to the music I like. This is why I love the underground scene because they can stay true to what they want to do.” WantSceneSellsTrackStay True Author:Rahki
“My daddy tried to get me up to speak for the 17 years that I worked behind the scenes, but I never had the desire. Naturally, I was nervous and kind of shy. I just didn't want to do it.” WantYearsKindDesireSpeakBehindsSceneNervousShyDaddyBehind The Scenes Author:Joel Osteen
“I just wanna perform, I wanna get back on the scene, I wanna do all the festivals and stuff like that. I don't necessarily want to do all the bullshit that comes with it, like tons and tons of interviews, unnecessary things and all that.” WantStuffSceneInterviewsGet BackUnnecessaryBullshitFestivalsUnnecessary Things Author:Lady Sovereign
“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
“You're an actor, you want to do a scene in class. But one of the things I've always had is I've always had a really good memory. So I would go and watch a movie and then I would see a scene in the movie and I go, hey I'd like to do that in class this Wednesday.” WantActorsMemoriesClassWatchesSceneHeyGood MemoriesWednesday Author:Quentin Tarantino
“I've done a nude scene and I felt it was appropriate to the storyline and I thought it was done in a respectful way and I felt comfortable doing it. But there are obviously going to be scenarios - not necessarily in this job, but in other jobs to come - where the question will be posed to me 'Will I want to do nude scenes?' and I would have to consider that as its own thing. And not just something to say yes to because I have done so before. It really is circumstantial.” WayWantDoneJobsFeltSceneComfortableAppropriateScenariosRespectfulStoryline Author:Nathalie Emmanuel
“As an actor I want to do as many takes as I can. I wanna shoot the scene... or shoot the shot 'til they make me quit.” WantI CanActorsSceneShotsQuitting Author:Tommy Lee Jones
“As a fighter, you have a weight cut, and if there's a weigh-in scene you want to look way smaller and depleted. You want there to be a noticeable difference between that and the fight day. You don't drink water, except for tiny sips, and you're not really eating anything, except for a tiny slice of sweet potato every hour.” IfsWayWantLooksFightingWaterHoursDifferencesCuttingSweetDrinkSceneEatingWeightTinyFighterPotatoesDrink WaterSweet Potatoes Author:Matt Lauria
“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
“Another mistake a director can make is not to be prepared, so you get there on the day to shoot the scene, and they don't know how it should be blocked, and they're not clear on how they want to do a scene.” KnowsWantShouldMistakeKnow HowClearSceneDirectorsPreparedBe PreparedBlocked Author:William H. Macy
“You often have a great director who's like, "Well, actually I don't even want to reveal you until the end of this scene" or something like that and it totally changes everything that you thought it was going to be.” WantWellsEndsSceneDirectors Author:Sarah Gadon
“In fact, one of the funny stories from that set [of Hail, Caesar!] is we were shooting my scene, and around lunchtime, Terrence Malick shows up on set. He was uninvited and no one knew who he was. But I knew, just looking at him. I was like, "Holy moley, that's Terrence Malick!" So I went and told the PA, "Hey, Terrence Malick is here, and I think he wants to see the Coen brothers. He wants to talk to Joel and Ethan." He just showed up unannounced, uninvited, and I guess they spent their lunch hour with him.” ThinkingWantFactsStoriesShowsHoursBrotherHolySceneHeyShootingLunchHailFunny StoryUninvitedCoen BrothersLunchtime Author:David Krumholtz
“When you are working hard, you don't have time for anything other than what you are doing in the scene and what the director wants.” WantHardSceneDirectors Author:Robert De Niro
“I didn't want to overstate anything, but at the same time, the scene expands on some of the themes in the film [ "Aquarius"].” WantFilmSceneThemeAquarius Author:Sonia Braga
“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
“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
“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
“The bigger budget films only shoot about a page or two a day, so there's very specific amount of time spent on detail and getting each tidbit exactly how they want it. In a movie or TV show, you shoot eight or ten pages and you aren't afforded as much time to do each scene.” WantTwoShowsFilmTvsAmountSceneTenPagesBiggerDetailsEightBudgetsTv ShowsTime Spent Author:Dan Payne
“I want to see more women behind the scenes.” WantBehindsSceneBehind The Scenes Author:Octavia Spencer
“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
“From 1940 to about 1960, I had been writing just regular comics, the way my publishers wanted me too. He didn't want me to use words of more than two syllables if I could help it. He didn't want me to waste time on worrying about good dialogue or characterization. Just give me a lot of action, lot of fight scenes.” IfsWayWantGivingWritingTwoHelpingUseActionWantedFightingWorrySceneWasteGive MeDialogueIf I CouldWasting TimeWant MePublishers1960sSyllablesCharacterization Author:Stan Lee
“I don't want to give any lines to anybody because otherwise they come out like bricks from their mouths. The important thing is the meaning of the scene, not the words you use, and I prefer that you find your own words to express the scene.” WantGivingImportantUseLinesSceneMouthsImportant ThingsBricks Author:Gaspar Noe