Quotes About Scenes

It seems when I put together records, as Henley used to say, they're just like movies. They should have action, tension, love scenes, places to relax.

With prose you can incorporate more details, develop scenes, sustain the tension in a special way. Prose has its own speed.

I think when you're dealing with very tenuous scenes and difficult and heavy subject matter, it's important to be close intimately with your cast as friends, and be able to diffuse a lot of that tension and trust each other with the work.

The challenge for me is to make sure I've done my work. To make sure not every scene is quiet, that other scenes rise up, that there's different tension.

Love scenes, if genuine, are indescribable; for to those who have enacted them, the most elaborate description seems tame, and to those who have not, the simplest picture seems overdone. So romancers had better let imagination paint for them that which is above all art, and leave their lovers to themselves during the happiest minutes of their lives.

Extraordinary scenes there at the end. I think some of the crowd chanting 'Italy! Italy!' were actually Irish.

Film your murders like love scenes, and film your love scenes like murders

I tell writers not to think about writing short stories or novels. Just write one good scene. And then a novel becomes a bunch of good scenes stacked on top of each other.

The possibility of somebody emerging as a nuclear power or events happening that surprise us on the nuclear age is still a possibility. It always will be because there's an awful lot going on behind the scenes. Our intelligence just has to get better on that score. Peter Goss

And I like those authors best whose scenes describe my own situation in life-- and the friends who are about me whose stories touch me with interest, from resembling my own homely existence.

What I have lately said of painting is equally true with respect to poetry. It is only necessary for us to know what is really excellent, and venture to give it expression; and that is saying much in few words. To-day I have had a scene, which, if literally related, would, make the most beautiful idyl in the world. But why should I talk of poetry and scenes and idyls? Can we never take pleasure in nature without having recourse to art?

In the scenes of moral life the soul is at once actor and spectator.

On no other stage are the scenes shifted with a swiftness so like magic as on the great stage of history when once the hour strikes.

Shower scenes are great. Janet Leigh never took a shower again in her life after 'Psycho'.

I'm good at description and imparting flow to a story, but I don't necessarily understand the value of long scenes.

I enjoy scenes in films, which do not have the pressure of the story so much... and it flows. I've tried to go in that direction.

It should consist of short, sharply focused sentences, each of which is a whole scene in itself.

Even in the big movies, if the scenes are very big, I'm not fond of them as much as I'm fond of small actor scenes.

DVD ushered in this era when you had to have additional footage, deleted scenes, things like that. There was no call for that back when we were just doing VHS cassettes and LaserDiscs.

When we have a ball at our feet, we footballers are delighted, but what happens behind the scenes is not always all that pretty.

I have the foundation to write, and then I go back and do research, and some of that might influence the recrafting of certain scenes.

A lot of a movie is locations, frankly.

Something that I learned from 'Friday Night Lights,' sometimes if you have four or five scenes in an episode, it's not having less than having 10. It's what you do with those scenes.

The hardest part of writing 'William Shakespeare's Star Wars' was probably the sheer amount of iambic pentameter and tiptoeing around certain scenes I knew would be hot-button issues for 'Star Wars' fans.