Scene Quotes

• 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.

  

  Sarah Gadon
  • Want
  • Ends
  • Wells

• I wondered why I hadn't realized before that art was hard because you had to recreate not merely the scene but the way it soared into your soul and changed you.

  

  Edeet Ravel
  • Art
  • Soul
  • Changed

• 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.

  

  Brian Chippendale
  • People
  • Bands
  • Art stuff

• I very much prefer the balance in a scene to standing out and so you have to make a decision

  

  William Hurt
  • Decision
  • Balance
  • Scene

• I created my own concept art and went in and did a 90-minute presentation that cost me a lot of money.And, the great thing is though, when I got the job, they had to buy all of it from me, because one of the set pieces in the middle of the movie was the scene I wrote, and they needed to own everything because a lot of it ended up being the movie we made, so I got all my money back. I was committed. I was going to outspend every competing director.

  

  Scott Derrickson
  • Art
  • Committed
  • Competing

• I'm working on a snow scene right now, and it's summer. It's hot, and I will get chilly. I'll have to turn on the heat. My wife walks in, and it's 95 degrees in the studio. I know it's nutty, but it's a projection you have where you step into the painting.

  

  Thomas Kinkade
  • Wife
  • Painting
  • Summer

• Remember, this is back in the '40s, and the idea of a museum being a place where interested people could come in direct contact with works hadn't arrived on the scene yet. That, I think, I first ran into at the Freer Gallery in Washington, D.C., where a man named Marty Martin Amt decided that he really felt his job - part of his job, as an assistant to the director was to make the collection available to interested people.

  

  Warren MacKenzie
  • People
  • Remember
  • Direct

• I look at albums like novels. If you write a really good scene or a really good moment, just because you wrote it, doesn't mean that it fits with the story that you're writing.

  

  Patrick Stump Fall Out Boy
  • Story
  • Scene
  • Novels

• The Church is larger than any one nation or any one political scene.

  

  Andrew van der Bijl
  • Church
  • Nation
  • Scene

• You can't feel sorry for a scene. If the movie works without the scene, then you don't need the scene.

  

  Michel Gondry
  • Feels
  • Needs
  • Sorry

• Actors must practice restraint, else think what might happen in a love scene.

  

  Cedric Hardwicke
  • Actors
  • Scene
  • Restraint

• Action, reaction, motivation, emotion, all have to come from the characters. Writing a love scene requires the same elements from the writer as any other.

  

  Nora Roberts
  • Character
  • Scene
  • Elelements

• 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.

  

  Judith Butler
  • Sex
  • Discourse
  • Transwoman

• Webcomics are much bigger than any one scene can circumscribe.

  

  Scott McCloud
  • Scene
  • Comics

• I'm a visual thinker. With almost all of my writing, I start with something that's visual: either the way someone says something that is visual or an actual visual description of a scene and color.

  

  Gerald Vizenor
  • Writing
  • Description
  • Thinker

• In his or her own way, everyone I saw before me looked happy. Whether they were really happy or just looked it, I couldn't tell. But they did look happy on this pleasant early afternoon in late September, and because of that I felt a kind of loneliness new to me, as if I were the only one here who was not truly part of the scene.

  

  Haruki Murakami
  • Happy
  • September
  • Loneliness

• There are some things I like about L.A. You can have a really healthy lifestyle, and I love running with the dogs on the beach. It's just the social scene is horrific!

  

  Mischa Barton
  • Dog
  • Beach
  • Healthy

• As an actor just learning the craft, you literally do a scene with Jimmy Gandolfini, and you walk away a better actor.

  

  Steven Van Zandt
  • Learning
  • Actor
  • Scene

• I don't look at rushes, or I don't go to the dailies. I don't even really look at playback unless it's an action scene or a move that I need to do better, something like that.

  

  Saoirse Ronan
  • Action
  • Moving
  • Scene

• Making a mistake means overshooting a scene, shooting too many takes, for instance. Long after you've got it, you just keep shooting.

  

  William H. Macy
  • Long
  • Mean
  • Mistake

• As a director, when you cut scenes from a movie, you do it with the idea that it is making the story move forward and progress. Sometimes, you don't realize that something is actually a sidetrack for the story, or it takes the tension out of a scene.

  

  Catherine Hardwicke
  • Sometimes
  • Progress
  • Cutting

• The problem in America is, the 'alternative' scene isn't alternative anymore. It's just all these metal bands who cut off their fucking hair. I mean, Live is a really stodgy old rock group. We don't feel comfortable being lumped in with a scene like that.

  

  Nigel Pulsford Bush
  • Band
  • Rock
  • Scene

• Ahmadinejad is just a buffoon, sort of a clown on the international scene who tries to be provocative so he can get his name in the paper and his face on television.

  

  Jimmy Carter
  • Scene
  • Buffoon
  • Ahmadinejad

• 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.

  

  Ryan Adams
  • Different
  • Writing
  • Song

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