Best Scene Quotes

Everything has already been done. every story has been told every scene has been shot. it’s our job to do it one better.

Most writers – poets in especial – prefer having it understood that they compose by a species of fine frenzy – an ecstatic intuition – and would positively shudder at letting the public take a peep behind the scenes.

History, like beauty, depends largely on the beholder, so when you read that, for example, David Livingstone discovered the Victoria Falls, you might be forgiven for thinking that there was nobody around the Falls until Livingstone arrived on the scene.

No scene in sacred history ever gladdens the soul like the scene on Calvary. Nowhere does the soul find such consolation as on that very spot where misery reigned, where woe triumphed, where agony reached its climax.

All love scenes started on the set are continued in the dressing room.

The scenes of our life are like pictures done in rough mosaic. Looked at close, they produce no effect. There is nothing beautiful to be found in them, unless you stand some distance off.

History with its flickering lamp stumbles along the trail of the past, trying to reconstruct its scenes, to revive its echoes, and kindle with pale gleams the passion of former days. What is the worth of all this? The only guide to a man is his conscience; the only shield to his memory is the rectitude and sincerity of his actions. It is very imprudent to walk through life without this shield, because we are so often mocked by the failure of our hopes and the upsetting of our calculations; but with this shield, however the fates may play, we march always in the ranks of honor.

When we are shown scenes of starving children in Africa, with a call for us to do something to help them, the underlying ideological message is something like: Don’t think, don’t politicize, forget about the true causes of their poverty, just act, contribute money, so that you will not have to think!

When I was on Broadway, my most recent Broadway show was ‘Spring Awakening,’ and every night I did a topless scene.

Confucius was not so much a philsopher as a proto-ideologist: what interested him was not metaphysical Truths but rather a harmonious social order within which individuals could lead happy and ethical lives. He was the first to outline clearly what one is tempted to call the elementary scene of ideology, its zero-level, which consists in asserting the (nameless) authority of some substantial Tradition.

LA has a fantastic car scene and because the climate is so gentle, cars can last forever.

Music, for the moment, has been this hidden thing for me. For the first time, I am master of something. I am not used by someone else, like in movies or pictures, where you always have the happiness or disappointment of knowing it’s you seen through someone else’s point of view. You go to see a film and half of the pretty scenes are not in it-the ones you liked. Living with this frustration all the time, suddenly music came as the best thing for me at home, where no one can tell you anything.

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?

I think there’s just so much awesome music coming out of New Zealand, I’ve always loved The Naked And Famous, I absolutely love Ghost Wave… it just seems like there’s a really cool scene happening out there, I’d love to go and spend some time there and see what other bands are popping up.

Seattle’s Moraine not only make Washington State proud, but also the whole American progressive music scene joyful. … It’s simply an impressive dead on eleven song tour de force. … GET THIS! Highly Recommended!

Nudity and sex scenes are two completely different things. Nudity you can kind of get used to, but not when there is movement and relating involved. The sex scenes are very uncomfortable because that’s something to be protected, so you have a visceral reaction to not exploit that.

It would seem to me… an offense against nature, for us to come on the same scene endowed as we are with the curiosity, filled to overbrimming as we are with questions, and naturally talented as we are for the asking of clear questions, and then for us to do nothing about, or worse, to try to suppress the questions.

I don’t get the jitters and I don’t get nervous, because I build that comfort on set for myself. Sometimes if I’m gonna do something really crazy, it helps me to yell or look like an idiot on set, so that when I’m about to do a scene, I’ve already embarrassed myself. I find ways to work around getting the jitters.

I thank Henry James for the scene in the hotel room, that I stole from Portrait Of A Lady… This particular scene is the most beautiful scene ever written.

In Hollywood, you’ve got a hundred people on set, and shooting the sex scene you’re wearing nude-toned underwear and tape on your nipples. Nothing is going beyond where you want it to go.

Barack is at a level where he can’t – no matter how much he wants to or how much we want him to – he’s not going to come take out our garbage, so to speak. He can’t be the garbage man and the president. He can’t be the mayor and the alderman. He can’t fill all those roles. So I always push for local, local activity on the political scene.

As a writer, you have to be willing to kill your darlings, and I’m a writer first. As a director, I’ve got no problem cutting the scenes.

Every time you get a script and you have a scene, you start mining out how many layers there are within it.

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.

There’s something about being there, on the set, in costume, in the moment, where you start to get a feel for the scene, which is not the same as sitting in your office writing it.

I’ve worked hard and accomplished what I’ve accomplished in the heavyweight scene.

My parents do a lot of things behind the scenes that go unnoticed.

I always wanted to play with the sound, but I always wanted to do it in a respectful way, because I never lived in New York and I don’t have a real connection to that scene.

On True Blood — I’ve never told anybody this—but I was so nervous and I was so drunk that after I shot the scene I was going up to the crew members — and I had just met all these people the day before — and I was going up to all of them like, ‘You got a boner! You do! You’ve got one!’ It was horrible. Horrible!

At the end, I cobbled scenes all together and smoothed out the transitions as much as possible. Incidentally, I would not recommend this approach to writing a book, and will probably not write that way again!

The only episode which was completely my idea was for Mitch Pileggi, the actor who portrays Skinner, the Assistant Director of the FBI. He appears often in the series, but only for a few scenes. You know virtually nothing about him. I wanted him to have an episode that was his alone, so I wrote Avatar for him. He even has a scene that’s pretty . . . hot [knowing smile]. He was very happy.

Men conceal the past scenes of their lives.

Even if we don’t see it, God is always working underneath the surface, behind the scenes and orchestrating His plans and purposes.

The greenhouse scene! It was just so fun to have the romance and the action.

The only time I felt like a weird exploiter – even though I knew I wasn’t one – was when I was writing a sex scene between me and my adorable co-star [Adam Driver] in which he had to tell me how much he loved my potbelly. It seemed like a weird wish-fulfillment thing, where I’m directing my own fantasy.