Best Staging Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“I always considered myself being an organizer. I'm very good at teaching singers, I'm very good at staging a show, to entertain people. But I never included myself. I never applied this to me as an artist.”

People Shows Artist Teaching Very Good Singers Organizer Staging

Author:Ike Turner

“When you are confronted with an opera, you have to keep an eye on everything: the musicians, the chorus, the ballet, the singers, the staging.”

Eye Musician Singers Ballet Opera Chorus Staging

Author:Placido Domingo

“The modern reader (or viewer, or listener: let's include everybody) is perilously overloaded. His attention is, to use the latest lingo,'targeted' by powerful forces? Our consciousness is a staging area, a field of operations for all kinds of enterprises, which make free use of it.”

Kind Use Force Powerful Attention Consciousness Modern Fields Reader Areas All Kinds Operations Enterprise Listeners Viewers Staging Overloaded

Author:Saul Bellow

“The culture industry perpetually cheats its consumers of what it perpetually promises. The promissory note which, with its plots and staging, it draws on pleasure is endlessly prolonged; the promise, which is actually all the spectacle consists of, is illusory: all it actually confirms is that the real point will never be reached, that the diner must be satisfied with the menu.”

Real Culture Pleasure Industry Promise Draws Notes Satisfied Consumers Plot Cheat Illusory Menus Diners Staging

Book:Dialectic of Enlightenment

Source: Dialectic of Enlightenment

“Mars could very well be a staging location for the resources of the asteroid belt. We have to learn how to get a payback somewhere, but it's beyond Mars that the real payoff will come from minerals.”

Wells Real Resources Mars Location Belts Minerals Asteroids Payoff Payback Staging

Author:Buzz Aldrin

“So much can be learned by any filmmaker by studying his work, in terms of blocking, staging, editing and sound.”

Sound Term Study Block Filmmaker Editing Staging

Author:Ramin Bahrani

“I'm just a guy that grew up in a total fun-loving environment. I try to create that everywhere I go. Basically what I'm doing is a reflection of me as an individual, me naturally. I'm not staging or putting on anything. I think my approach to the game is an all-out approach, whatever it takes to win. I've always been that way.”

Thinking Way Trying Guy Games Winning Individual Fun Environment Grew Approach Grew Up Reflection Whatever It Takes Staging Fun Loving

Author:Dave Parker

“There are some sequences in films that I think work filmicly, that stand out to me, but thats much more to do with the staging and the cutting and the mood of the thing as a sequence, the way everything comes together.”

Thinking Way Together Film Cutting Mood Standing Out Sequence Staging

Author:Roger Deakins

“[I watch] Fincher, Spielberg, Cameron, McTiernan. Just people who are good at staging action. I like to know where I am. I don't like the kind of cutting where you don't know where you are.”

People Knows Kind Action Watches Cutting Where You Are Cameron Staging

Author:Steven Soderbergh

“Home staging is no longer optional in this real estate market, it is a must!”

Real Home Estates Optional Staging Real Estate Market

Author:Barbara Corcoran

“Each book is a different staging post on the writer's journey, and each book stands by itself, regardless of the writer's relationship to it.”

Book Different Journey Posts Staging

Author:Jeanette Winterson

“Great directors can understand the staging in such a way that can make a scene come alive. Others have a certain way of pacing the scene.”

Way Certain Alive Scene Directors Pacing Staging

Book:Al Pacino

Source: Al Pacino

“I'd really been interested in opera when I was about 16, and I really like staging them.”

Opera Staging

Author:Bruce Beresford

“Very thorough in the rehearsal process but more in terms of just understanding the characters, understanding where the actors are at with discovering those characters for themselves, and just setting an overall emotional tone for the piece as opposed to necessarily getting things up on their feet or staging scenes.”

Character Actors Process Understanding Term Pieces Feet Emotional Scene Setting Settings Tone Discovering Rehearsal Thorough Staging

Author:Kate Winslet

“Information...exhausts itself in the staging of meaning...[and leads] not at all to a surfeit of innovation but to the very contrary, to total entropy”

Information Innovation Contrary Entropy Staging

Author:Jean Baudrillard

“Marketing is really theater. It's like staging a performance.”

Performances Theater Marketing Staging

Book:Odyssey: Pepsi to Apple-- a journey of adventure, ideas and the future

Source: Odyssey: Pepsi to Apple-- a journey of adventure, ideas and the future

“If I stage things too much and nothing changes in the act of photographing, then I might as well have not taken the picture: If the whole thing already exists in my head, then I haven't learned anything. The tension lies between the staging and the unpredictability.”

Ifs Wells Whole Might Lying Taken Too Much Stage Havens Tension Things Change Unpredictability Staging

Author:Justine Kurland

“I realized early on that artifice attracted me to an image more than any other quality - I mean artifice in the sense of staging and heightened color and exaggerated lighting, not a surreal or fictive moment... I think the lighting and feeling of Cinemascope, the movies I saw as a kid, always stayed with me as a kind of glorious vision of reality.”

Thinking Kind Mean Moments Feelings Reality Kids Quality Vision Saws Color I Realized Glorious Surreal Lighting Exaggerated Artifice Staging

Author:Laurie Simmons

“Literature especially has an interesting relationship to photography - to observation, to description, to fiction: taking something that you see and elaborating, jamming, and I think, staging.... taking that moment of observation and letting it go, giving it some wings, following it, rather than nailing it. You're riffing off of reality.”

Thinking Giving Moments Reality Literature Interesting Fiction Photography Wings Following Observation Description That Moment Let It Go Staging

Author:Larry Sultan

“I was very young, maybe five. The opera was very... I was attracted to opera to the point that I think it's the reason I started to write music for films. I never studied. There are film and music school that teach you how to write music. I never studied that. But the influence of opera, which is a combination of storyline, visuals, staging, plus music... that was perhaps the best school I could have had. That's what gave me the idea of coming to Hollywood to write music for films.”

Thinking Writing Ideas Reason School Film Young Teach Five Influence Hollywood Combination Visuals Plus Opera Storyline Staging Best School Film And Music

Author:Lalo Schifrin

“When I'm writing in my bedroom, in a bar, at my kitchen table or wherever, I'm conjuring it all up on the page. That's all well and good, but it is going to be a limited perspective at that point and time. Occasionally, what I write might read really well initially, but then you change your mind while hunting for locations when you discover settings which offer even better opportunities for drama or dramatic staging.”

“Yeah, I love A Nightmare on Elm Street. I was just a fan. I was such an avid fan. I remember being on the set talking about a sequence and he started asking me about maybe staging it a little different. I realized - I think he was shocked that I knew his work so well - I remember I started going like, "Why don't we do it like The Last House on the Left, where you had the girl on the ground..."”

Thinking Wells Littles Different Lasts Remember Girl House Left Talking Fans Streets Asking Yeah I Realized Nightmare Shocked Sequence Avid Staging Nightmare On Elm Street

Author:Kevin D. Williamson

“I think that it's important for a film that's in 3D that the filmmakers create the movie from a staging and scene planning standpoint with the dimensional space as one of their storytelling components.”

Thinking Important Film Space Scene Planning Storytelling Filmmaker Components Standpoint Staging

Author:Christopher Meledandri

“Jumping twenty or so years later, Ann Ciccolella, artistic director of Austin Shakespeare, approached me with the idea of staging Anthem. She had heard my film score to Ayn Rand: A Sense of Life. And she said, I want to do Anthem as an oratorio. Well, I figured what she meant was a straight play with music.”

Want Years Wells Said Ideas Play Film Heard Directors Twenties Artistic Score Jumping Anthem Austin Staging Film Scores

Author:Jeff Britting

“In another project I worked on just a few years ago, a staging of Peter and the Wolf, which I translated into Yiddish and sang on a stage in New York City. Thank God very few people knew I was doing it! But the kids in the audience loved it - even though it was all in Yiddish.”

People Years Kids Cities Audience Stage New York Projects Years Ago New York City Thank God Peter Yiddish Staging

Author:Maurice Sendak

“You've got to remember that improvisers are writers and actors and directors all simultaneously. That's what's happening in real time because you're writing on your feet, and you are acting out the words and you are directing what the staging is. You're deciding what staging is.”

Writing Real Remember Actors Acting Feet Directors Happenings Acting Out Staging

Author:Mike Birbiglia

“What happened in Ukraine? The coup d'état in Ukraine has led to a civil war, because, yes, let's say, many Ukrainians no longer trusted President Yanukovych. However, they should have legitimately come to the polls and voted for another head of state instead of staging a coup d'état. And after the coup d'état took place, someone supported it, someone was satisfied with it, while others were not. And those who did not like it were treated from the position of force. And that led to a civil war.”

Should War States Force President Happened Position Should Have Satisfied Treated Civil War Trusted Polls Ukraine Coups Head Of State Staging

Author:Vladimir Putin

“In the face of uncertainty, many companies will default to asking their innovators to study and analyze, which can't actually ever provide a definitive answer. The decision-making systems here are meant to deal with the reality that decisions about innovative ideas will rely on patterns and intuitions. The best venture capital organizations deal with this challenge by staging investment, actively participating in startups they fund, tying decisions to learning as opposed to artificial dates on the calendar, and assembling a diverse team of decision-makers.”

“It's possible that Trump will have success by staging jobs theatre, rather than creating jobs. It's the inverse of what Obama did: saving an enormous amount of jobs without having the televised theatre to go along with it.”

Jobs Trump Amount Creating Theatre Enormous Saving Inverse Creating Jobs Staging

Author:Jonathan Chait

“Novels and stories are sometimes very complex staging grounds to say, in fact, very simple things. Things impossible to say otherwise because they are repeated in so many exploitative contexts - adverts and TV shows and political speeches.”

Sometimes Facts Stories Shows Political Simple Novel Impossible Tvs Speech Complexes Tv Shows Simple Things Adverts Staging Political Speeches

Author:Zadie Smith

“Many decry rising inequality because it makes those who've fallen behind feel impoverished. But it's done much more than cause hurt feelings. It has also raised the real cost to middle-income families of achieving many basic goals. The process begins with the completely unremarkable fact that top earners have been spending at a substantially higher rate than before. They've been building bigger mansions, staging more elaborate weddings and coming-of-age parties for their kids, buying more and better of everything.”

“Is not the most erotic portion of a body where the garment gapes? In perversion (which is the realm of textual pleasure) there are no "erogenous zones" (a foolish expression, besides); it is intermittence, as psychoanalysis has so rightly stated, which is erotic: the intermittence of skin flashing between two articles of clothing (trousers and sweater), between two edges (the open-necked shirt, the glove and the sleeve); it is this flash itself which seduces, or rather: the staging of an appearance-as-disappearance.”

“Well, it kind of hurts when the kind of words you write And kind of turn themselves into knives And don't mind my nerve you can call it fiction 'Cause I like being submerged in your contradictions, dear 'Cause here we are, here we are Although you were biased, I love your advice Your comebacks they're quick and probably Have to do with your insecurities There's no shame in being crazy depending on how you take these Words they're paraphrasing this relationship we're staging And it's a beautiful mess, yes, it is It's like we're picking up trash in dresses”

“2012 has been an extraordinary year for our country. We cheered our Queen to the rafters with the Jubilee, showed the world what we're made of by staging the most spectacular Olympic and Paralympic Games ever and - let's not forget - punched way above our weight in the medals table.”

World Way Years Has Beens Made Country Games Forget Weight Tables Extraordinary Our Country Queens Medal Spectacular Jubilee Staging Rafters

Author:David Cameron

“Time is like an enterprising manager always bent on staging some new and surprising production, without knowing very well what it will be.”

Wells Time Knowing Eternity Productions Managers Surprising Bent Enterprising Staging

Book:The Works of George Santayana: Soliloquies in England and Later soliloquies

Source: The Works of George Santayana: Soliloquies in England and Later soliloquies

“Home staging used to be optional. Today, it's a necessity in selling a house.”

Home Today Used House Selling Used To Be Optional Staging

Author:Barbara Corcoran

“When film is not a document, it is dream. That is why Tarkovsky is the greatest of them all. He moves with such naturalness in the room of dreams. He doesn't explain. What should he explain anyhow? He is a spectator, capable of staging his visions in the most unwieldy but, in a way, the most willing of media. All my life I have hammered on the doors of the rooms in which he moves so naturally. Only a few times have I managed to creep inside. Most of my conscious efforts have ended in embarrassing failure - The Serpent's Egg, The Touch, Face to Face and so on.”

Way Should Dream Film Faces Moving Rooms Effort Vision Doors Media Willing Capable Conscious Eggs Documents Embarrassing Spectators Creeps Face To Face Serpent Hammered Staging

Author:Ingmar Bergman

“I have a way of filming things and staging them and designing sets. There were times when I thought I should change my approach, but in fact, this is what I like to do. It's sort of like my handwriting as a movie director. And somewhere along the way, I think I've made the decision: I'm going to write in my own handwriting.”

Thinking Way Should Writing Made Facts My Own Decision Design Directors Approach Handwriting Movie Director Staging

Author:Wes Anderson

“There is no definitive list of the duties of a stage manager that is applicable to all theaters and staging environments. Regardless of specific duties, however, the stage manager is the individual who accepts responsibility for the smooth running of rehearsals and performances, on stage and backstage.”

Running Individual Responsibility Accepting Environment Stage Duty Performances Theater Theatre Lists Managers Smooth Rehearsal Staging Stage Managers

Author:Laurence Sterne

“A flop is often the result of the fact that each of the talents involved, while working on the same project, may in effect have been working on a different show from all the others. If all contributors do not share the same vision of the evening, the end product will not evince the harmony of diverse elements-the seeming inevitability of book, score, and staging-of a good musical.”

“What Mr. Kaufman and his team are after is less a portrait of any one person than one of the ethos of a place. In the deliberate, simple staging ... in which eight radiantly clean-scrubbed performers embody 60 different people against a bare-bones set, 'Laramie' often brings to mind 'Our Town,' the beloved Thornton Wilder study of life, love and death in parochial New Hampshire.”

“I enjoyed doing the gag covers better than the story ones because they were usually simpler. A cover based on an incident in the plot took a great deal of staging to tell a little story that was still part of the book. And it had to make sense on its own.”

Littles Stills Book Stories Deals Enjoyed Make Sense Plot Incidents Gags Staging

Author:Carl Barks

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