My fingers curl through the holes in the wicker, through the wet grass beneath it, trying to hold tight to the sharp blades of the present. Somewhere in my brain a sinkhole is bubbling over, and each bubble contains a scene from a tiny sunken world. . . I have never been the prophet of my own past before. It makes me wonder how the healthy dreamers can bear to sleep at all, if sleep means that you have to peer into that sinkhole by yourself. . . . I had almost forgotten this occipital sorrow, the way you are so alone with the things you see in dreams.
So I was hugely thrilled that my first scene ever on camera was with Hal Holbrook.
When Superman came out it galvanized the entire industry. It's just part of the American scene.
Where´s my leadin´ lady? Let me try this new love scene on you, baby.
As an actor, you think you have to go really far and deep and cry and yell to be good in a scene. Sometimes that's not the point.
I tell students they will know they are getting somewhere when a scene is so painful they can just barely bring themselves to write about it. A writer has to draw blood.
Sometimes I watch a scene I've written, and occasionally I think, "Oh, for God's sake, shut up. "
With most of my books, I'll actually go out and look at the setting. If you describe things carefully, it kind of makes the scene pop.
Action scenes are not that different from other scenes.
I appreciate a slow-burn romance. In most movies, everyone is just tearing their clothes off in the first scene.
I really like when I read a scene and it scares me. That makes me excited.
I'm UCB trained - I came up learning about game, which is a really big part of the Upright Citizens Brigade theater. They teach you about game, and game in a scene is what makes the scene funny. And oftentimes, it's the character - this is really improv dorky stuff.
I hurt myself doing a fight scene with some dwarves.
I don't give parties, and I'm not in that social scene. I couldn't care less.
Elvis changed the country music scene quite a bit; he almost put country music out of business.
I've always felt toward the slightest scene, even if all I had to do in a scene was just to come in and say, 'Hi,' that the people ought to get their money's worth and that this is an obligation of mine, to give them the best you can get from me.
I get a lot of credit for Tron. They called us scene choreographers back then because the animation unit wouldn't let us be called animators because we were working on computers. And we were some of the first people ever to make 3-D computer animation.
I was sad that Corpse Bride was so short. I would've liked to have had her around for way longer. She doesn't actually have that many scenes.
The music scene as I look at it today is a little different from when I was growing up. The percentages are roughly the same - 95 percent rubbish, 5 percent pure.
In the beginning, it wasn't even a question of deciding I'm going to do independent film and not commercial films - I wasn't being offered any commercial films, and there wasn't an independent scene.