Scene Quotes - Page 18

I like writing sentences. It's tactile and exciting. Whereas working at the level of the scene is a more cerebral pleasure.

I've always felt that the basic unit of writing fiction is the sentence, and the basic unit of the screenplay is the scene.

I've always been partial to comedy. I love the idea of working on a comedic scene.

It's difficult for me to imagine any scene differently because I've read the book so many times. The book, as a whole, seems like a document that wouldn't withstand any changes at this point. Or perhaps I simply can't imagine having to revise it again.

It was like passing the scene of a highway accident and being relieved to learn that nobody had been seriously injured.

The ability to share whole scenes form our lives will be a valuable thing over time.

The good thing about recording everyone separately is it gives the directors more control - they can change one character's lines in a scene without having to re-record everybody, and the story changes a lot before the movie comes out.

Let us draw the curtain of charity over the rest of this scene

The international music scene has grown so much, and America is sort of following that.

To one who has enjoyed the full life of any scene, of any hour, what thoughts can be recorded about it seem like the commas and semicolons in the paragraph-mere stops.

Eleanor Roosevelt could easily have told negroes the deceitful maneuvering of the United States government that was going on behind the scenes. She never did it. In my opinion she was just another white woman whose profession was to make it appear that she was on the negro's side. You have a lot of whites who are in this category. Therefore, they have made negro loving a profession.

I always wanted to play with the sound, but I always wanted to do it in a respectful way, because I never lived in New York and I don't have a real connection to that scene.

Life is not an opera. Scenes belong on the stage.

I wanted to watch the women interacting with [Warren Beatty], which takes he chose, and how the actresses were reacting in scenes with him.

How can my ankles and arms be obscene?

I want to have a scene with Maggie Smith.

I find it really awkward to do a scene where I'm supposed to seem like I'm in love.

I love directing scenes that I'm not in because suddenly I really feel like a filmmaker which is a different thing.

We prate of freedom; we are in deadly fear of life, as much of our own American scene betrays.

Well, it's more of a sane life to be part of an ensemble! I find that the work can be more specific too and I have to really make sure I know where I am in the story because I'm not in every scene.

We goofed around a lot and acted silly. It was great working with Mark Wahlberg too. Some off scenes I had with him I was terrified to do, but he was great.

Whenever there's a nude scene, it's always uneasy. You're not in the comfort of your own home with your significant other.

What about good small roles for women? I've told my agent, if there are two great scenes in a film, I don't care, if it's something with that great edge to it.

I just can't believe that anyone would start a band just to make the scene and be cool and have chicks. I just can't believe it.

It's hard to get lost in a scene, to get into a character when everyone's standing around you on the set.