Ensemble Quotes - Page 5

• 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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• I've always been attracted to ensembles. When I started doing plays in high school and in college, I always loved the community aspect of it. I loved these little families that would develop.

  Josh Radnor

  School, College, Play

  Source: collider.com

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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 most important part of filmmaking is the collaboration and the ensemble element of it. If you just all focus on the task and the work and try and make the best film that you can then people will come.

  Nina Jacobson

  People, Focus, Trying

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• I'm all about real drama, real performance, and real people, so my twist on this is: I'm creating a family, a brotherhood here. I'm creating a very real chemistry and I have this incredible ensemble of actors led by Will Smith, who are basically playing dimensional characters with lives and souls.

  David Ayer

  Real, Drama, Character

  "SUICIDE SQUAD Behind the Scenes Footage: David Ayer Says He’s Creating a Family" by Perri Nemiroff, collider.com. May 07, 2015.

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• Saturday mornings in spring should always start with a jolt of dance by Paul Taylor performed by Taylor 2. The touring ensemble, an adjunct of the Paul Taylor Dance Company, offered a rare New York performance... It was an impressive event, presented by a group of highly individualistic dancers.

  Jennifer Dunning

  Morning, New York, Spring

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• Picture-taking is an ensemble art-like theater.

  Ansel Elgort

  Art, Picture Taking, Theater

  "Breaking Out: Ansel Elgort Goes from High School to Off Broadway in Regrets" by Liesl Schillinger, www.vogue.com. March 28, 2012.

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• A lot of times, working in stand up, youre by yourself ,and so you just have to rely on yourself only but I like working in an ensemble.

  Josh McDermitt

  Rely On Yourself, Rely

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• Whether a listener absorbs this music or rebels against it is at least partly a matter of how the performers put it across. It would be hard to imagine an ensemble playing it with greater virtuosity than the JACK Quartet, which seemed not merely earnest but also completely comfortable with, and passionate about, the strange sound worlds at hand.

  Allan Kozinn

  Hands, Sound, Rebel

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• It was very much about performances, the whole ensemble thing was just great - everybody working together. Sometimes it didn't feel like a film set. It wasn't technically driven, it was very, very enjoyable

  Cillian Murphy

  Working Together, Sometimes, Film

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• My job apart from anything else is to build an ensemble composed of actors who all come from a secure place so that they can all work together to make the film.

  Mike Leigh

  Jobs, Working Together, Actors

  Interview with Chloe Veltman, www.believermag.com. March/April 2009.

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• Well that's what Andy wore to bed. You know, the oxford button-down Brooks Brothers shirt that he's been wearing all day and his big long socks. He'd just take off his jeans and his boots and go to bed. Then he'd change into a fresh ensemble after he had breakfast the next morning.

  Bob Colacello

  Morning, Brother, Jeans

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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• 'Jazz Artist of the Century' would have to be a distinctive soloist and ensemble player, a composer, an arranger, a bandleader, and a driver; would have to span all the genres and periods of jazz; would have to have run her own label; [would] possess a deep spirituality, with grace and a sense of humor; and would have to have succeeded against all odds. Who else? Mary Lou Williams.

  Dave Douglas

  Running, Artist, Player

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• A lot of the things I've enjoyed the most and that I think have been the best are ensembles.

  David Morse

  Thinking, Enjoyed, Has Beens

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• It is really refreshing to hear a big band that has the ability to execute ensemble passages with swing and precision while retaining a "small group" feel during the solo sections. This kind of "tight, loose" approach is seldom heard in big bands, whether they are professional or not. Now, all the band needs is to hit the road and take the music around the world!

  John Patitucci

  Swings, Groups, Needs

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• Without doubt, the foremost band for decades has been the One O'Clock Lab Band at the University of North Texas. Through its many incarnations and under various leaders, they have demonstrated the highest qualities of musicianship imaginable, plus a willingness to balance their big band tradition with creative exploration. Astounding ensemble work, insightful interpretations of the arrangements, imaginative writing, and above all, a loving attention to musicality . . . these people play beautifully.

  Gary Burton

  Writing, Play, Texas

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• I'm an actor first and foremost. My producing credentials are just to say, "Yeah, I love this story and now let's bring the people, the ensemble together," and I get out of the way. I have no desire to check on schedules and shooting schedules and money and stuff like that.

  Pierce Brosnan

  People, Desire, Together

  Source: collider.com

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• I prefer, and it turns out to be the truth, that I always have in my movies an ensemble of actors, but not just one individual doing the whole movie.

  Fedor Bondarchuk

  Actors, Individual, Turns

  Source: collider.com

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