“Some film actors want to sit back and look at every scene and all that crap. No, you're an actor - tell the story, and when it's told, there's another one to tell.” WantLooksStoriesFilmActorsSceneCrapFilm Actors Author:Clarke Peters
“My favorite scene in all of movies is Gregory Peck in To Kill A Mockingbird: You see him where he's on the porch, and his face is almost completely obscured. I don't want to see his face.” WantFacesSceneMy FavoritePorchMockingbirdKill A Mockingbird Author:Mary-Louise Parker
“I think as long as there are folks on the fringe who want to make movies, the indie scene will still be around. I do think it's getting harder to get them seen though.” ThinkingWantLongStillsSceneHarderFolksFringe Author:Joshua Leonard
“I want to focus on each scene. I'm a real perfectionist, and I don't want to feel like I didn't consider every possible variation of a scene. I come from a theater background, so I'm used to a lot of repetition, and I'm used to really attacking something over and over and over again.” WantFeelsRealUsedFocusSceneTheaterBackgroundsRepetitionAttackingVariationPerfectionist Author:Michael Shannon
“There are times when I want to be plainspoken about my feelings in a song. But there are other times when it's really good to try and get my head around different kinds of song structures, or maybe I might get turned on by trying to write a song that would fit in this one scene in a movie. And by the end of all this, you just end up with a bunch of different ideas. And songs are really just ideas.” WantWritingTryingKindIdeasDifferentEndsFeelingsMightSongFitSceneStructureBunchDifferent KindsDifferent Ideas Author:Ryan Adams
“I was interning at a children's theater group in Kentucky - that was my first job out of college. I had jumped around a couple of regional theaters, and I was about to go back to Maine to work at a summer Shakespeare theater there. I didn't want to just jump around the country from gig to gig. I really wanted to go to a city and get involved in a theater scene and a theater community.” WantFirstsChildrenCountryWantedJobsCommunityCitiesGroupsCollegeCoupleInvolvedSceneSummerTheaterGet InvolvedGigsKentuckyMaine Author:Timothy Simons
“Sometimes fake laughing is hard once you’ve done a scene 18 times. I don’t want to brag, but I have a reputation for being very, very good at that. It’s funny finding what’s challenging about acting as you go.” WantSometimesHardDoneChallengesActingLaughingSceneFindingsVery GoodReputationFakeBrag Author:Allison Williams
“I learned a valuable lesson doing 'Mr. Sunshine,' which is that I didn't want to be in charge because it's too much. Being in charge and acting in every scene was just too difficult. It's like eating dinner in a moving golf cart every night.” WantMovingNightDifficultActingToo MuchLessonsSceneEatingGolfValuableDinnerSunshineEvery NightCartsValuable LessonsEating DinnerGolf Carts Author:Matthew Perry
“The love we most cherish will, of necessity, bring us pain. Because that love is like the setting of a body with broken bones. But I want to stage the setting. I want to direct all scenes.” WantBodyPainLove IsStageBrokenSceneDirectBonesSettingSettingsCherishLove Is LikeBroken Bone Book:Divine secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood: a novel Source: Divine secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood: a novel
“Men, permitted to put words (and other things) in women's mouths, create scenes in which women desperately want to be bound, battered, tortured, humiliated, and killed.” MenWantSceneMouthsBoundsHumiliatedBattered Book:Feminism Unmodified: Discourses on Life and Law Source: Feminism Unmodified: Discourses on Life and Law