"The blossom is blighted, the leaf is withered, the God of day goes down upon the dreary scene, and in short you are for ever floored."
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"A new chapter in a novel is something like a new scene in a play."
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"The whiskey died away in time and was renewed and died again, but the street ran on. From that night the thousand streets ran as one street, with imperceptible corners and changes of scene."
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"If all that's going on in your scenes is what's going on in your scenes, think about it a long time."
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"On a fair prospect some have looked, And felt, as I have heard them say, As if the moving time had been A thing as steadfast as the scene On which they gazed themselves away."
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"I really fancy Eddie Redmayne. I wouldn't mind a few steamy scenes with him."
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"And in the middle of one of those scenes, I suddenly felt my heart just open: it was overwhelming, to the point where I got teary-eyed. Never would I have thought anything like that could happen in a love scene."
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"It's almost better most times to not talk in a scene. I think you can actually express a lot more without words."
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"Since I am a person who starts work without clear knowledge of a storyline, every single scene is a pivotal scene."
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"Hypotyposis is the rhetorical effect by which words succeed in rendering a visual scene."
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"You're just looking for the thing that makes this scene sort of imperative, why you have to know what changes by the end of the scene so you're really looking to find the essence of it."
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"I have no scene, I go everywhere, I adapt."
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"Be sure the safest rule is that we should not dare to live in any scene in which we dare not die."
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"To play well the scenes in which we are 'on' concerns us much more than to guess about the scenes that follow it."
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"Whence are we, and why are we? Of what scene The actors or spectators?"
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"When I'm filming a kill scene [as a director], I just get happier and happier as we chop up body parts."
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"When I was filming the death scene [in Inglourious Basterds], and I'm killing somebody, I had to work myself up."
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"Of course when people are as talented as Jim O'Rourke or Gene Coleman, pretty soon you know that they're going to be part of the bigger scene anyway."
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"I like getting carried away by what is happening and then decide each scene based on the actors, the set and the light."
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"That's the only way I can control my movie. If you shoot everything, then everything is liable to end up in the movie. If you have a vision, you don't have to cover every scene."
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