Scene quotes
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"I don't like to direct the actors by telling them what to do. If anything, it's reminding them where they are in the movie, what's happening emotionally and what they want in the scene."
"The scene isn't one of perpetual death but of life circulating within itself."
"My focus is on the rhythmic relationship between body and ground and the visual relationships among the elements of the always-changing scene."
"If a brutal scene is shown for no reason except to shock, then it is bad."
"I'm not the kind of person who thrives in "the scene." I know that when this is all over, and I'm no longer cool, I'm going to be just as happy because I'm going to be at home."
"As an insecure writer, I'll finish a scene and worry there's a better version of it. Or it could be elevated somehow."
"In reference to the murder scene in 'Dial M for murder' As you have seen on the screen the best way to do it is with a scissor."
"That's a really common trap that people in small scenes will start to rely on. They'll have all this material joking about that place, and then take a trip to Atlanta or whatever, and be like, "Half my act is gone because I can't talk about how everybody has a bicycle.""
"In every relationship, sooner or later, there is a court scene. Accusations, counter-accusations, a trial, a verdict."
"The way I go about a lovemaking scene is that we will talk about it during the rehearsing time."
"A good novel is an indivisible sum; every scene, sequence and passage of a good novel has to involve, contribute to and advance all three of its major attributes: theme, plot, characterization."
"The subject matter... is not that collection of solid, static objects extended in space but the life that is lived in the scene that it composes."
"Heaven blazing into the head: Tragedy wrought to its uttermost. Though Hamlet rambles and Lear rages And all the drop-scenes drop at once Upon a hundred thousand stages It cannot grow by an inch or an ounce."
"Assure thee, if I do vow a friendship, I'll perform it to the last article." --Othello, Act III, Scene iii"
"Believe then, if you please, that I can do strange things. [Act 5, Scene 2]"
"A lot of actors are just like la la la - they're never really connected and then they're in the scene and then boom. They're looking you in the eyes and they're just really focused."
"In his comic scenes, Shakespeare seems to produce, without labor, what no labor can improve."
"The reciprocal civility of authors is one of the most risible scenes in the farce of life."
"Each character has their own challenges. The challenge to doing one scene is your whole history of who you are and your relationships, you only have this one shot."
"It was hard, that confrontation scene [in "Fences"], that was a hard one. I felt like it was relentless, I never felt like I could just drop the ball when the coverage was on him or anything else."
