Horror itself in that fair scene looks gay, And joy springs up e'en in the midst of fear. [It. , Bello in si bella vista anco e l'orrore, E di mezzo la tema esce il diletto. ]
Thus heavenly hope is all serene,But earthly hope, how bright soe'er,Still fluctuates o'er this changing scene,As false and fleeting as 't is fair.
For a director, the most challenging scenes are the dialogue scenes.
I think it's very hard to be naked in a scene and not be upstaged by your nipples.
If a scene isn't well written they'll drop your neckline to fill the void.
Mal Blum's arrival on the indie scene gives us all hope for the future of smart music.
The 'wandering studio' gathers and stores experiences, takes chances with the unfamiliar and requires a measure of self-trust. Mistakes are part of the change of scene.
[In comedy] you never want to leave the actors hanging out to dry. So you need to come up with funny individual stories for each character, and then you do this sort of comedy geometry, weaving them together. Once you've got a funny structure and you know why the scenes are funny, then you get super funny people to say your own lines, say their own lines, say things in their own way, and every scene is a live rewrite in front of the camera.
From the beginning, there was so much pressure in the early San Francisco punk scene for everyone to be different than everyone else, to flaunt your intelligence and insights instead of every band sounding alike, like what plagues punk music in particular today.
Any time you get two people in a room who disagree about anything, the time of day, there is a scene to be written. That's what I look for.
I am a writer who works from an outline. What I generally do when I build an outline is I find focal, important scenes, and I build them in my head and I don't write them yet, but I build towards them.
Don't rush or force the ending. All you have to know is the next scene, or the next few scenes.
In a scene [where the improvisers must interact] without the letter S, the audience is waiting for you to lose - so they can laugh at you. Don't try to win.
Even afterwards when you go through a scene and then step off, sometimes you need a minute to just decompress.
Like hungry guests, a sitting audience looks Plays are like suppers; poets are the cooks The founder's you; the table is this place The carvers we; the prologue is the grace Each act a course, each scene, a different dish.
When I watch a movie for the first few times I'm usually thinking about where I was in a given scene, who was next to me, what we were doing etc. But after I've gotten through all of this, when I'm really watching the film itself, then I get moved.
I'm a product of older filmmakers I guess, the past where you get to make movies and scenes are what they are.
It seemed as though he gave way all at once; he was so languid that he could not control his thoughts; they would wander to her; they would bring back the scene,- not of his repulse and rejection the day before but the looks, the actions of the day before that. He went along the crowded streets mechanically, winding in and out among the people, but never seeing them, -almost sick with longing for that one half-hour-that one brief space of time when she clung to him, and her heart beat against his-to come once again.
I think it's important to keep the audience interested. But the best advice that I've gotten is to live in the moment. Sometimes you can get too into your head when you're in a scene.
Even if I don't have a job, I work on plays and scenes.
