Quotes About Scene

I had friends in this band called Mars and they used to play a lot.

Every bad smell is about us. We make our way through the world and come upon a scene that is medieval-modern, a city of high-rise garbage, the hell reek of every perishable object ever thrown together, and it seems like something we've been carrying all our lives.

It's this contrast that keeps the audience on their toes and paying attention. It's as though the story works like this: Scene one (+): Our hero really wants something. Scene two (-): But the opportunity to get that something has been taken away. Scene three (+): An opportunity arises that might help the hero get what they want. Scene four (-): But that opportunity falls through.

Every word, every image, and every beat in a movie is heading toward a specific scene. Sometimes called the climactic scene or the obligatory scene, this all-important scene happens at the end of the movie and it's the scene that resolves all the conflict.

somos nosotros, los psicoanalistas, quienes en el silencio de la escucha imaginamos mentalmente, en forma de escena, el origen del sufrimiento experimentado por el neurótico".

We're standing here, beat to shit, walking away from a crime scene where either or both of us could have bought it, and you're asking me to marry you?" "Perfect timing.

There couldn't be too many bars in the world, I thought, where a man acted out a scene from the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel when he wanted an Amstel Light.

The most important way you attain this end is by presenting each scene moment by moment, leaving nothing out, because there is no summary in real life, and you can't have any summary in the scene, either, if you are shooting for maximum lifelikeness and reader involvement.

invariably the character with the strongest, clearest goal motivation going in. To say this a different way: The goal that starts a scene ordinarily should be stated by the story person who is to be the viewpoint character in that scene. And once this viewpoint has been established, you will be wise to stay in that viewpoint at least through the disaster ending the scene.

Today's "fully developed scene," consequently, tends to run shorter than it once did. You may encounter scene situations where you simply can't develop all the complex immediate issues in fewer than a dozen pages. If so, that's fine. But I suspect that the average, "developed" print-fiction scene today runs between four and six pages, and some are shorter than that.

What is a scene? It's a segment of story action, written moment-by-moment, without summary, presented onstage in the story "now." It is not something that goes on inside a character's head; it is physical. It could be put on the theater stage and acted out. What is the pattern of a scene? Fundamentally, it is: Statement of goal. Introduction and development of conflict. Failure of the character to reach his goal, a tactical disaster.

If you get an impulse in a scene, no matter how wrong it seems, follow the impulse. It might be something and if it ain't--take two!

Until mountain biking came along, the bike scene was ruled by a small elite cadre of people who seemed allergic to enthusiasm.

Especially with a comedy, you've got the clear cut goal of trying to make a scene funny. It's not like drama where you're trying to achieve some kind of emotion or trying to further the story along. You're trying to figure out what's the funniest way to do something.

scene of a murder in Peckham. It is standard procedure

From the gravel road, they all strained to see the old sycamore, but after a few seconds of focusing it was apparent there was a man hanging from it. Calvin told them everything he knew. The deputies decided it was best to proceed as if a crime had been committed, and they prohibited the ambulance crew from approaching the scene.

When the Apostles were taken away, Christianity did not at once break into portions; yet separate localities might begin to be the scene of internal dissensions, and a local arbiter in consequence would be wanted. Christians

If I don't cry while writing a key emotional scene, my gut feeling is it's failed.

I personally like a little rehearsal, not if I'm gonna have a super emotional scene you wanna have it be a fresh thing.

I was in the car driving back, after having done a scene where I kill somebody, and I just said to the driver, "I can't talk right now. I'm too emotional." The whole car ride back, I was just crying.

...let the emotional weight of a scene rest on the dialogue wherever possible. This is the easy way to avoid overinterpretation, which seems to be what turns a scene from sympathetic to sentimental.

I worked a lot in Chicago's theater scene as a fight choreographer. And so I do have a lot of experience in stage combat and also in Kabuki dance and Kabuki theater.

All an actor has is their blind faith that they are who they say they are today, in any scene.

Faith-is the pierless bridge supporting what We see unto the scene that we do not.