[The] vain and transitory scenes of human greatness are unworthy of a serious thought.
As a director, when you cut scenes from a movie, you do it with the idea that it is making the story move forward and progress. Sometimes, you don't realize that something is actually a sidetrack for the story, or it takes the tension out of a scene.
How stagnant and tepid the whole British political scene is now is just beyond belief.
I'm sure every film it's going to be like, 'Okay, this is the scene where your shirt gets ripped off. ' I'll never be able to keep my shirt on.
Veteran performers are dying off, and new acts simply aren't emerging on the national scene.
I'm a good Indian girl, I still don't do sex scenes in my movies because my mum would kill me!
I don't believe in doing thousands of cuts, then giving it to the editor to make the movie. 'Dump-truck directing' is my reference to that style of moviemaking. You have to know how to cut before you can shoot well. The lack of definition in movies today is appalling. Very few people know how to mount a narrative anymore. If a scene works in one cut, you don't need 10. Or it might need 10. Let's not make it 20.
Honestly, as an actor, all I need to know, the way I kind of look at a scene, is like a puzzle. There are certain puzzle pieces that are bigger than others, and all I need to know is if this is going to fit here to make this part of the puzzle work.
I personally think that all the scene that you see, love scene, is pretty real, almost 100 percent.
Till now I have never shot a scene without taking account of what stands behind the actors because the relationship between people and their surroundings is of prime importance.
The punk scene in NY was so gritty and nihilistic & I was like ooh I want to do that
War seems to be one of the most salutary phenomena for the culture of human nature; and it is not without regret that I see it disappearing more and more from the scene.
I don't find intimate scenes more difficult than other scenes.
Hey man, Jaws was never my scene, and i don't like Star Wars
Sundown, yellow moon, I replay the past I know every scene by heart, they all went by so fast
In truth, fair Montague, I am too fond.
Any story has a beginning, middle, and end, of course, but the question is, where do you start it exactly? It's about a guy who is murdered in a fistfight, but how does it evolve and what does it mean? That's what I discovered scene by scene, and this innovation of coming in as a first-person narrator was a complete surprise to me. It just happened.
Is the scene always visual? It can be aural, the frame can be linguistic: I can fall in love with a sentence spoken to me: and not only because it says something which manages to touch my desire, but because of its syntactical turn (framing), which will inhabit me like a memory.
I'm not a selfish actor. I believe that it's a team effort. You're not in a scene by yourself.
I've always loved news. I've always loved storytelling and being where the scene is.