Scene Quotes - Page 33

• I like a twisted sense of humour. On 'A History of Violence,' David Cronenberg and I would be doing the grimmest scenes and laugh a lot.

  Viggo Mortensen

  Laughing, Violence, Would Be

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

  Viggo Mortensen

  Lucky, Looks, Remember

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• People will like to say that 'Eastern Promises' is brutal, but the only reason they say that is because the scenes stick with them. They are realistic. They are in-your-face and you see the consequences. It's not a bunch of quick editing cuts.

  Viggo Mortensen

  Cutting, Editing, People

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• Sometimes a scene works and acting is the easiest thing in the world and you don't have to do much of anything - just enjoy yourself and listen to the other actor. When it doesn't work, then every actor has different ways of dealing with the impasse. Sometimes you use memories from the past. Whatever. It depends from job to job.

  Viggo Mortensen

  Jobs, Memories, Past

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• Every frame and every scene has to have an intention.

  Mira Nair

  Intention

  "From Bengal to the Big Apple". Interview with Amaya Rivera, www.motherjones.com. March, 2007.

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• Acting with creatures that aren't there is kind like acting with an actor who refuses to come out of his trailer. You still have to go on and do the scene.

  Liam Neeson

  Acting, Actors, Goes On

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• I have questioned myself about the brutality in the last few novels. Actually in The Leopard, in hindsight, I feel I went a little bit too far with screaming blood. There are a couple of scenes that I regret and wish I had the chance to rewrite. Phantom has less blood.

  Jo Nesbo

  Couple, Regret, Blood

  "Jo Nesbø: 'I am a vulture'". Interview with Andrew Anthony, www.theguardian.com. March 10, 2012.

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• You never know what you do that could be totally out of left field, which actually might work and give something fresh to the whole scene, to the character, whatever. If you have that with a director who then knows how to shape it, either in the direction, in the moment, or in the editing, then that's good.

  Robert De Niro

  Character, Editing, Giving

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• The memory of that scene for me is like a frame of film forever frozen at that moment: the red carpet, the green lawn, the white house, the leaden sky. The new president and his first lady.

  Richard M. Nixon

  Memories, Sky, White

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• That's what sets apart one actor from another, and that you can't teach. You can't give someone that. When you're working, putting a character together, or in a scene, that's where things will happen that you have to have the intuition to notice them, and to register them.

  Gary Oldman

  Character, Giving, Intuition

  "Gary Oldman on life, the universe, and everything". Interview with Laremy Legel, www.mtv.com. December 19, 2011.

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• When I still lived in Manhattan, people-watching was my hobby, and I spent many Sunday afternoons eating up the scene from a window seat at a Starbucks on Broadway.

  Susan Orlean

  Sunday, People, Hobbies

  "On the Wing" by Susan Orlean, www.newyorker.com. February 8, 2011.

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• If you play comedic scenes like they're really serious, then it's so much more funny than if you're going for a laugh.

  Patton Oswalt

  Play, Laughing, Serious

  "The GQA: Patton Oswalt". Interview with Dan Hyman, www.gq.com. December 14, 2011.

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• If you explode onto the scene at a very young age, there are so many people pulling you in different directions. It takes time to recalibrate and see what's important.

  Clive Owen

  People, Important, Age

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• Action scenes are not that different from other scenes.

  Clive Owen

  Different, Action

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• When I was a younger actor, I would try to keep it serious all day. But I have found, later on, that the lighter I am about things when I'm going to do a big scene that's dramatic and takes a lot out of you, the better off I am when I come to it.

  Al Pacino

  Trying, Actors, Serious

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• The most boring scenes are the scenes where a character is alone.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Being Alone, Character, Boring

  Interview with TashaR, www.avclub.com. November 13, 2002.

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• Minimalism seems closest to the sophisticated storytelling of movies. Movies have really educated contemporary audiences to be the most intelligent, sophisticated audiences in history. We don't any longer need to have the relationship between one scene and the next explained. We will figure it out ourselves.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Intelligent, Needs, Next

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• There is nothing better than playing a scene with John Cleese or Maggie Smith. It's electric. But I don't think I'm the sort of person who needs to have an outer ego in order to produce something. I realised that through the travel programmes.

  Michael Palin

  Thinking, Order, Ego

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• I have a number of writers I work with regularly. I write an outline for a book. The outlines are very specific about what each scene is supposed to accomplish.

  James Patterson

  Book, Writing, Numbers

  "The Great Gatsby : But First, a Word From Viagra" by Marie Woolf, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 5, 2013.

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• When I met Elvis, we didn't really have a conversation. I was introduced by my uncle, and he sort of grunted my way. What stays with me is the whole scene. I had never seen a real mob scene before. I was really young and impressionable. Elvis really did look - he looked sort of not real, as if he were glowing.

  Tom Petty

  Uncles, Real, Glowing

  "Tom Petty: What I've Learned". Interview with Mike Sager, www.esquire.com. August 2006.

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• I love scoring. Putting music to picture is a rewarding challenge and one that relies on interpretation of emotion - as in, what is the pivotal feeling in a scene and which character's point of view is driving it at any given moment?

  Liz Phair

  Character, Views, Challenges

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• The best moments can't be preconceived. I've spent a lot of time in editing rooms, and a scene can be technically perfect, with perfect delivery and facial expression and timing, and you remember all your lines, and it is dead.

  Brad Pitt

  Editing, Expression, Perfect

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• My mother had been an actress and we came from that world in New York, the theater world and the downtown sort of theater scene, and so I guess we didn't really have what you'd call like a Hollywood kind of life at all.

  Martha Plimpton

  Mother, New York, Hollywood

  "Q & A: Raising Hope’s Martha Plimpton on being a child actress, guest stars and Twitter". Interview with Lance Carter, www.dailyactor.com. September 27, 2011.

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• If you do a scene and you really like a character in it or a premise in it to write it down and to work on it so that you can have five or six characters that you can pull out in an audition.

  Amy Poehler

  Writing, Character, Down And

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• Young actors often don't think of the consequences of doing nudity or sex scenes. They want the role so badly that they agree to be exploited, and then end up embarrassing family, friends, and even strangers.

  Natalie Portman

  Sex, Thinking, Roles

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

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