Quotes About Scene

If people remember me for any scene in a Lars von Trier film, I'm extremely honoured and forever grateful.

I am quite schizophrenic as a person. I can be sweet as anything and lovely, and then I can just go into a scene that people are quite shocked with.

There's the movie you write, there's the movie you shoot and the movie you edit, and often, you find that you're getting the same information out of a scene that you already have and a scene that's actually more powerful, so you have to make the tough decision to take it out.

Most movies are lucky to have one moment, one shot that you look at and you always remember that moment and that scene.

Try to place the camera somewhere where you get most of the information from there, so you don't need to have too many shots and be too explanatory and expositional about the scene.

I think that it's awkward watching a video with your mom, particularly when you're making out with a girl or a sexy scene. I would rather be away from that!

No, I'm sure that there's a lot of L.A. bands out there.

Definitely, when you get into something where bands are playing for 30,000 people, it's not like the post-punk, U.S. independent scene.

Bath was hardly known for its rock'n roll. We weren't part of the London scene or the New Romantics or any of that.

Becoming a commercial scene? I don't think people in grime would be happy about that.

Once I made the mistake of saying I enjoyed listening to Lester Young over Charlie Parker, which solicited the response: "What the hell do you know?" It was true, I only knew what I liked, but in the often too-serious jazz scene, it seems what one likes isn't valid unless backed up by a twenty-page dissertation. That attitude probably accounts for a certain percentage of jazz enthusiasts who are pedantic bores.

In the doorframe stood Gus T. Jones and another old man, carrying a six-shooter. Jones looked at the scene, his mouth downturned like it was the sorriest goddamn thing he'd ever witnessed. He shook his head with pity for all the weakness in the world, removed his hat, and said, "I sure hope we're not interrupting anything.

With moviemaking, the audience always has to keep asking, 'What happens next?' If you have the wrong piece of music over a scene, people aren't going to get the scene. If you have the wrong camera angle, people aren't going to pay attention. That's as much a part of the process as getting people to talk to you.

The way I navigate scenes is through what I perceive to be the emotional truth of the character: what he wants from moment to moment.

I think fitness and performance levels are the right indicators to determine if it's the time to leave the scene.

But I just love that music scene so much, and I enjoy really being around those artists and watching them even more than I do performing, because they are a whole group of people that do it because they love music.

Well thank you, Trudi," Now falsely modest again. "But I Don't think I won the scene." "Well, of course, you did," dismissing his protest. "You had all the dialogue but," she warns him. "In our big scene tomorrow, that's another story. So watch out.

In every evocation of a childhood scene, my stepfather's face is the least detailed, the most out of focus; when I think of him my memory's eyes have cataracts.

The biggest surprise about making a movie has got to be the wait in between takes.

When I'm on a set, and I'm in between a scene or on a plane waiting, I read Twitter and I love it.

I love to work. I know that sounds ridiculous to say because all people love to work, but I love the homework that goes into acting. I love figuring out different ways of playing a scene. I love the energy of being on set. I love not getting enough sleep because I have to wake up early in the morning.

The funniest thing happened in one of my first scenes. In the beginning Emma was really arrogant and punk and in every scene she would slam the door when she walked in or out.

It was like a classic thing with Emma. So I walked in and I slammed the door and everything fell off the wall on the set. It was my second or third scene and I was so embarrassed and scared and so nervous about what everyone would say, but everyone just packed up laughing.

The entire New York comedy scene has moved to L.A. - it's bled the New York comedy scene dry.