Quotes About Cut

When you cut a film, certain scenes fall away and don't fit into the shape of the movie.

The great thing about making an ensemble show is it becomes modular. It might work on the page to cut from one scene to another, but on the screen, it's more powerful to take that second scene and move it first or move it later.

In any movie, there are a number of scenes that get cut in an effort to keep the film from running too long. Some are of little consequence, but others are important scenes that are very painful to lose.

I have need of a knife to cut our brother down,' she explained. 'We must pray for his soul and accord him a Christian burial.' The others cast uneasy glances at each other.

If a novelist has created vivid characters, interesting relationships, settings the reader can easily imagine, and intriguing stories, a screenwriter has loads to work with. The challenge comes with deciding what to cut and what to keep.

I don't think I can sell to our voters in our district that there's nothing to cut in the federal budget. Nobody, I think, sees that or would agree with that.

If you force legislators to balance, at the end of the day, if it has to be balanced, then they step up and they become legislators and can find out where to cut.

If imagination's the lifeblood of the people and thought is our oxygen, then his job's to cut off our circulation and hers is to make sure that we all stay dead from the neck up.

Does every conversation with you have to be the director's cut?

We can think of our atmosphere as a budget and our emissions as expenses: because methane and nitrous oxide are significantly larger greenhouse expenses than CO2 in the short term, they are the most urgent to cut. Because they are primarily created by our food choices, they are also easier to cut.

Prominent among the Hettite priests were the Galli or eunuchs, who on the days of festival cut their arms and scourged themselves in honour of their deities. Such actions remind us of those priests of Baal who 'cut themselves after their manner with knives and lancets, till the blood gushed out upon them.

In film or TV work, you can have this amazingly dramatic pause, and they'll just edit it out.

When my hair is long enough to be cut, I go to my wife's hairdresser, and she generally pays for it.

If Congress adds 5 percent to the debt, then their pay should be cut by 5 percent.

I think that what most surprises anybody who goes into politics from even a modestly cerebral background is the vulgarity of much of the cut and thrust of politics.

We need to see the FLSA and the minimum wage as part of a larger struggle to cut poverty and to address the challenge of income inequality.

Why does Medicare have such difficulty accommodating a cut - no, wait, a trim to its annual spending increase - of two measly percentage points? Two words: baby boom.

There's a general feeling if you take the cut block out of the game, then you're going to significantly impact the run game.

My dad cut my hair once - I wanted a bob and he gave me a bowl cut. That was a tough few years.

For too long, opponents of climate change have hid behind the argument that the U.S. cannot afford to cut carbon pollution because other countries won't follow suit.

I like the brand Band of Outsiders. Their suits are cut really slim, for smaller framed gentlemen.

Actors make bad lovers. Their most important kiss is for the camera. Not in a superficial way, in a really deep way. They can only give everything if they know someone is going to shout cut!

It's no conspiracy [for the Hindu] to make me a refugee in the very country of my birth It's no conspiracy to poison the air I breathe and the space I live in It's certainly no conspiracy to cut me to pieces and then imagine an uncut Bharat.

Emotion, at the top of the list, is the thing that you should try to preserve at all costs. If you find you have to sacrifice certain of those six things to make a cut, sacrifice your way up, item by item, from the bottom.