Scene Quotes - Page 16

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.

Cath wanted to go back and rewrite every scene she'd ever written about Baz or Simon's chests. She'd written them flat and sharp and hard. Levi was all soft motion and breath, curves and warm hollows. Levi's chest was a living thing.

I want to sell tracks but at the same time I want to stay true to the music I like. This is why I love the underground scene because they can stay true to what they want to do.

Doing nude scenes for me is totally fine. When you view it through the lens of a prudish, inhibited culture, then it becomes a little perverted. But the experience of acting is that you transcend your own experience.

I have never been part of a scene. I've always been a bit of an island really, but I am fine with that.

My experiences have taught me that things rarely improve with a simple change of scenery.

I never think of poetry or the poetry scene, only separate poems written by individuals.

There's a great Anton Chekhov quote. He says, "The Russian loves recalling life, but he does not love living." That scene has always been something that I have held dear. When something happens, the first thing you want to do is tell it. That's almost more exciting. It's almost simultaneous with the experience; you are already telling something incredible while it's happening. The stories that everybody carries around and repeats, I am really interested in that.

Whence are we, and why are we? Of what scene The actors or spectators?

The great thing about the electronic music scene is that everybody can be part of it either by dancing, DJing, or organizing a party.

The studio scene in California is sort of ridiculous anyway.

Every musical scene has a cycle.

We dominate the scene and we will continue to impose our will on this country.

I love the beginning of Magnolia, the thing about the dealer. That scene is genius. Brilliantly acted.

If you watch a movie, it never happens that you see a character that is in every single scene.

The scene was set. All that was required was an action, a cold start, instant and brutal as beginnings always are.

When you're on an ensemble show and you're messing around with everybody every day and you're not in every scene, and then all of a sudden you're in every scene, it's rough.

John Carpenter was very gentle. He was very tender. He really liked talking to actors. He really wanted you to be comfortable. He waited until you were ready to do the scene, and he has a lot of confidence.

Excuses are used to justify leaving the scene of truth without changing.

I think the most emotional part in making the movie and discovering the movie - because it was a process of discovering - is all the scenes with the family.

I played a scene at the end of my first year, and that's how I was discovered.

I guess maybe I was hired to play in the Doll House because of my dinner scene in The Sixth Sense, which has been scrutinized a thousand times as to whether you know Bruce Willis is dead, or whether I'm talking to myself. I think that maybe if that could be my forte, to do a scene and be able to say it could be read this way or that way.

I want to see more women behind the scenes.

John Cusack is a dream. I did one one-on-one scene with him and we got to shoot it so many times, and he did it different every time.

I don't like when you necessarily know that this is the end of the movie. I like when a movie ends abruptly. You go through this, and some of the scenes are uncomfortable, and some are funny - and then suddenly it's over.