Scene Quotes - Page 13

• I eat broccoli. I think about the plot. I pace in circles for hours, counter-clockwise, listening to music. I try to think of one detail in the scene I'm about to write that I'm really excited about writing. Until I can come up with that one detail, I pace.

  Matthew Tobin Anderson

  Writing, Thinking, Circles

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• Unfortunately, we don't have a depth of African scriptwriters, so it's easier to Africanize something that already works. Local script writers are giving me James Bond budget scenes that I can't even produce.

  Mo Abudu

  Giving, Depth, Scripts

  "Mo Abudu: ‘Fifty’ Shades of Africana [INTERVIEW]". Interview with Suede, www.ebony.com. December 17, 2015.

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• We always need to have someone help with videos, I think all of our DVDs could've been better but our music video, I love all the music videos, but the actual behind-the-scenes and stuff of our music video DVD, it was rushed and didn't turn out great.

  Jess Margera

  Thinking, Dvds, Needs

  Source: puregrainaudio.com

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• Always tell us where we are. And don't just tell us where something is, make it pay off. Use description of landscape to help you establish the emotional tone of the scene. Keep notes of how other authors establish mood and foreshadow events by describing the world around the character. Look at the openings of Fitzgerald stories, and Graham Greene, they're great at this.

  Janet Fitch

  Character, Emotional, Looks

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• A lot of individuals I've met that I've done a song or two with. But to be honest I'm not incredibly familiar with the scene. I mean, I'm more familiar with people coming from other countries like Latin-American MCs and African rappers... that type of stuff I'm really starting to get a hold on.

  Immortal Technique

  Country, Song, Latin

  Source: www.hiphopcanada.com

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• When you're young and you play music, you have a peer group, you come out of a scene. There's a lot of people you know, and then you have some success, and it all goes away.

  Adam Duritz

  Play, People, Groups

  Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com. 2014.

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• As an actor, I feel that my work makes me very vulnerable. I have to be emotionally available to serve the scene I'm doing. You never quite know where your emotions will take you.

  Jacob Vargas

  Doing You, Actors, Never Quit

  "Jacob Vargas from Sons of Anarchy: Making the Most of Pain, Chaos, and Love". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• I was a grill cook at McDonalds for a little bit. I did landscape for a little bit. I played a lot in the bar scene, I played countless sets of acoustic songs in that arena.

  Aaron Lewis

  Song, Mcdonalds, Bars

  "Staind: An IGN Classic Interview". Interview with Spence D., www.ign.com. July 9, 2003.

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• Virgil Donati is clearly the best drummer to come along in the music scene in quite some time. He is extremely unique and has embraced an original sound that has given him a signature that is unmistakable and impossible to duplicate.

  Tony MacAlpine

  Unique, Signatures, Sound

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• The good thing about having chemistry is, when you get to the improv section of a scene, you've got somebody to feed off. It can go on and on and on, and the sky's the limit.

  Kevin Hart

  Sky, Goes On, Limits

  "Kevin Hart says it was 'love at first sight' when he met Ice Cube" by Ree Hines, www.today.com. January 15, 2014.

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• There always should be something hanging unfinished before a scene ends so that there's a reason for going to the next scene.

  Michael Ondaatje

  Next, Reason, Ends

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• During the time that my recording career seemed to be in a slump a music called disco came on the scene and literally took over radio stations as well as having radio stations created to play it which sort of negated my music as well as that of some of my peers.

  Dionne Warwick

  Play, Careers, Slumps

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• My little secret before I do every scene is I say a short little prayer.

  Justin Baldoni

  Prayer, Secret

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

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• Sometimes I just want to write a really intense love scene. But I can't do that in my books for teens, or parents will complain - believe me, I've tried.

  Meg Cabot

  Believe, Book, Writing

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• That's the thing about prep, is that it's a joy to have it there and you can spend all this time prepping, but ultimately you have to look at your script and turn up on the day. It's embedded in there somewhere but you have to forget it all and play the scene because we are storytelling.

  Jenna Coleman

  Play, Joy, Scripts

  "The Time Traveling Actor". Interview with Haley Weiss, www.interviewmagazine.com. December 28, 2015.

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• I cut the scene out, but there was a moment where Christoph Waltz plays the piano in 'Django [Unchained]' - Jamie [Foxx] is a magnificent piano-player but there's never a moment where Django plays the piano.

  Quentin Tarantino

  Cutting, Player, Django

  Source: www.coupdemainmagazine.com

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• I think the first couple of times you do make-out scenes, you psych yourself out and it's really nerve racking.

  Hilarie Burton

  Couple, Thinking, Psych

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• Sometimes they come to you and it's a small role, so it's about the experience and the journey and mixing with people you know you will learn from. Or sometimes it's a scene in a movie that you think, 'I just have to play this person.'

  Naomi Watts

  Journey, Thinking, Play

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• Kevin Bacon and I recently worked on a move together, R.I.P.D. Just before we'd begin a scene, when all of us would feel the normal anxiety that actors feel be- fore they start to perform, Kevin would look at me and the other actors with a very serious expression on his face and say: "Remember, everything depends on this!" It would make us all laugh. On the one hand, it's not true of course, but on the other, everything does depend on this, on just this moment and our attitude toward this moment.

  Jeff Bridges

  Attitude, Moving, Remembers Everything

  "Jeff Bridges and his Buddhist teacher ruminate on life". Interview with Bernie Glassman, www.today.com. January 8, 2013.

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• My fans - I hate the word fans...my supporters - it's an international following that isn't from being in London and existing on the "scene." It came from being on the Internet, from being a teenager communicating with different artists, showing who I am, who KESH is, as well as connecting with other people around the world doing similar things.

  Kesh

  Teenager, Hate, Artist

  Source: www.elle.com

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• There were some times when we did the winter scenes in the summer, and I had to wear that silly fur coat. Oh, my Lord! I was perspiring!

  Jamie Farr

  Summer, Silly, Winter

  Interview with Peter Anthony Holder, www.peteranthonyholder.com. May 24, 1995.

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• I look at it scene-by-scene. Whether it's a historical character or not, whatever, on the page is one thing and delving into the history or somebody is one thing, but making something work for an audience in front of a camera is another exercise and you bring whatever authenticity you can to it.

  Gary Cole

  Character, Exercise, Historical

  Source: www.indiewire.com

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• I think that sharpens the intention of a scene and clarifies a story's arc. Of course, I don't seek the questions until after I've written a scene - or maybe after I've daydreamed it.

  Edan Lepucki

  Thinking, Stories, Intention

  Source: therumpus.net

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• It's not the subject of narration that interests me, but the structure. That's why I stay in touch with my old works, which I reread regularly. I don't hesitate to take up previously used images or even whole scenes.

  Dumitru Tepeneag

  Structure, Used, Interest

  Source: therumpus.net

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• There were definitely scenes I struggled with more than others: the car accident and the thunderstorm are two that come to mind. It's difficult to write about a thunderstorm. There are only so many ways to describe it and our vocabulary is so limited. And the car accident scene required a tense, manic quality that had to be conveyed in the language, as well as the character's dialogue and actions. I was editing these scenes long after I thought I was finished with them.

  Mary J. Miller

  Character, Writing, Two

  Source: therumpus.net

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