Ensemble Quotes - Page 4

• I've never directed before, so I need to make sure that people know that I can. The movie that I've written, 'The Sophisticates,' is a... small ensemble comedy and I hope it's charming and funny.

  Lena Headey

  People, Needs, Comedy

  "Lena Headey Talks Sexy Vamps, Her New Flick and More". Interview with Stacie Ponder, www.amc.com. 2009.

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• My happiest times in the theater are when I do ensemble pieces. I really got into theater because of that closeness.

  Faith Prince

  Pieces, Theater, Closeness

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• I'd love to have my own TV show, in the way that Julianna Margulies has 'The Good Wife,' or a lovely ensemble show, like 'Six Feet Under.'

  Lara Pulver

  Tv Shows, Feet, Wife

  "Lara Pulver Talks Season Two of SHERLOCK, Making Her American TV Debut on TRUE BLOOD, and More". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. May 3, 2012.

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• All the others arts are lonely. We paint alone--my picture, my interpretation of the sky. My poem, my novel. But in music--ensemble music, not soloism--we share. No altruism this, for we receive tenfold what we give.

  Catherine Drinker Bowen

  Music, Lonely, Art

  Catherine Drinker Bowen (1939). “Friends and fiddlers”

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• This is a natural evolution, building a complete bath ensemble program and the Joseph Abboud bath brand within the Creative Bath family of licensed programs.

  Bob Weiss

  Creative, Baths, Evolution

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• The thought of the novelist lies not in the remarks of his characters or even in their introspection but in the plight he has invented for his characters - in the juxtaposition of those characters and in the lifelike ramifications of the ensemble they make: their density, their substantiality, their lived existence actualized in all its nuanced particulars, is in fact his thought metabolized.

  Philip Roth

  Lying, Character, Novelists

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• My whole childhood was filled with classical music and going to concerts of the New York Philharmonic and other New York ensembles and organizations, but interestingly, I didn't become conscious of wanting to be a musician until I was about 11. I was a rather late starter.

  Gunther Schuller

  New York, Organization, Childhood

  "Listen Back To A 1988 Conversation With Composer Gunther Schuller". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. June 22, 2015.

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• In space-time everything which for each of us constitutes the past, the present and the future is given en bloc...Each observer, as his time passes, discovers, so to speak, new slices of space-time which appear to him as successive aspects of the material world, though in reality the ensemble of events constituting space-time exist prior to his knowledge of them.

  Louis de Broglie

  Past, Reality, Space

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• I just rely on the text to speak for itself and then speak it as I believe it to interpret it, and then just know that the rules of the world that we're creating allow for things to come to life, and then just trust in the process of making a film. Hopefully we'll make a sequel, because if we do, we had such a great time as an ensemble, I think the best thing to do would be to just take the whole cast back. This is Iain's idea and I agree with it. Just reincarnate all the characters and put them back into the world. There's no rules. Why couldn't we do that?

  Brendan Fraser

  Believe, Character, Thinking

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• I think the key that differentiates the good actors from the mediocre ones that are still trying to come up, is that the good ones know how to listen. It's like being in a jazz band. They know how to listen to what the other musicians are playing. And where to come in and where to sit out. That's my approach to being in an ensemble cast and working with any kind of actors in a scene.

  Wesley Snipes

  Thinking, Keys, Trying

  Source: collider.com

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• Debts and lies are generally mixed together.
  [Fr., Debtes et mensonges sont ordinairement ensemble rallies.]

  Francois Rabelais

  Lying, Together, Debt

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• It's very hard to find a good comedy. I prefer doing comedy far over anything else because I think they're actually more profound. But finding a good one and a great ensemble is very difficult to do and I'm delighted that in these particular times there is so much interest in comedy and that comedy is having so much success.

  Sigourney Weaver

  Thinking, Profound, Comedy

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• When you go and you tell a studio and that it's an ensemble, that doesn't mean a lot to them. But, my hats off to Paramount and Warner Brothers, because when we told them that these were the kinds of people that we want to get, across the board, they were unbelieveably enthusiastic about it.

  David Fincher

  Brother, Mean, People

  "EXCLUSIVE: David Fincher Talks Zodiac: Director's Cut". Interview with Brian Gallagher, movieweb.com. January 7, 2008.

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• The great thing about space films generally, with the exception of Apollo 13, is that big stars tend not to work in space and I think that's because space is an equaliser. It makes everyone the same really and suits an ensemble cast and actors who are prepared to work with each other.

  Danny Boyle

  Stars, Thinking, Space

  "Sunshine - Danny Boyle interview". Interview with Rob Carnevale, www.indielondon.co.uk.

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• With a role like Hedda Gabler, which is incredibly complicated, you often feel that you haven't even scratched the surface the first time around, so you relish the opportunity to do it again, particularly with an ensemble of actors and the company we assembled. But when you do that in films you somehow have to make some attempt to uncross people's arms and you have to justify why you're doing it.

  Cate Blanchett

  Opportunity, People, Roles

  "Elizabeth: The Golden Age - Cate Blanchett interview". Interview with Rob Carnevale, www.indielondon.co.uk.

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• Aimer, ce n'est point nous regarder l'un l'autre,
  mais regarder ensemble dans la meme direction.
  English Translation:
  To love is not to look at each other,
  But to look together in the same direction.

  Antoine de Saint-Exupery

  Love Is, Together, Looks

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• When I was really young, I was reluctant to be perceived as bossy, and I thought that working with an ensemble was about generating a consensus all the time. Later on, I realized that it's actually generous to know what you want and to tell people what you want - actors, crew, everyone.

  Liza Johnson

  People, Actors, Want

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• The reason why lovers and their mistresses never tire of being together is that they are always talking of themselves.
  [Fr., Ce qui fait que amants et les maitresses ne s'ennuient point d'etre ensemble; c'est qu'ils parlent toujours d'eux memes.]

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Love, Talking, Mistress

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• There are minds constructed like the eyes of certain insects, which discern, with admirable distinctness, the most delicate lineaments and finest veins of the leaf which bears them, but are totally unable to take in the ensemble of the plant or shrub. When error has effected an entrance into such minds, it remains there impregnable, because no general view assists them in throwing off the chance impression of the moment.

  Sophie Swetchine

  Eye, Errors, Views

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• I never started out to be an action actor. I was an ensemble actor. "Rocky" was an ensemble film. "F.I.S.T." was an ensemble. "Paradise Alley" was an ensemble.

  Sylvester Stallone

  Actors, Paradise, Action

  "The Expendables - Sylvester Stallone interview". Interview with Rob Carnevale, www.indielondon.co.uk.

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• I prefer live musicians whenever possible. And I tailor the ensemble to what is appropriate for the film and the score I'm writing.

  Geoff Zanelli

  Writing, Musician, Tailors

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• In a recording, your ear believes and accepts the trumpets as part of the ensemble, but you can't do that in a concert hall.

  Geoff Zanelli

  Believe, Ears, Accepting

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• I never started out to be an action actor. I was an ensemble actor.

  Sylvester Stallone

  Actors, Action

  Source: www.viewlondon.co.uk

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• Even though I started playing the violin when I was four, my early chamber music experiences helped build a strong foundation for my solo work, as all music is a rich language and dialogue that is shared on stage, no matter what the size of the ensemble.

  Anne Akiko Meyers

  Strong, Four, Violin

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• Modernity is the ensemble of changes - intellectual, political, economic, social, cultural, technological, aesthetic - that have altered the world drastically since roughly the 17th century, until which time the world was, in the above respects, far less different from the world of any previous epoch of recorded history than it is from the world of today. The modern predicament is the set of problems these changes have bequeathed us.

  George Scialabba

  Political, Intellectual, Different

  Source: thenewinquiry.com

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