As a director, try to be humble and not to overdo it, not overcoverage and over-covering the scene.

There’s no point in swanning through and being cool as a breeze in every scene. It’s not really that interesting. Even if you’re a superhero.

A lot of young actors will do a scene and then run off and look at themselves. I don’t believe in that at all.

Look, sometimes it’s OK with girls like this, they wanna have fun, and sometimes it’s not because they’ve got a broken wing and they’re hurt and they’re an easy target. In this case, this particular...

When you do a slasher film, you find yourself repeating the same kind of scene, then it becomes not very challenging and not very interesting.

For me, the more talented the actor is that I’m working with, the easier my job is because the circumstances of a scene are easier to believe when the people around you are in the...

As long as I’m around the cats in the hip hop scene, they’ll throw me a track and I’ll write a rap over it.

For me, screenwriting is all about setting characters in motion and as a writer just chasing them. They should tell you what they’ll do in any scene you put them in.

I got heavily into the drum-and-bass scene, which is really wicked.

As much as I converse with sages and heroes, they have very little of my love and admiration. I long for rural and domestic scene, for the warbling of birds and the prattling of my...

You have to examine a scene on the page first. Then you get into the basics of acting: Who are you? Who are you talking to? How do you feel about that person?

Never sit staring at a blank page or screen. If you find yourself stuck, write. Write about the scene you’re trying to write. Writing about is easier than writing, and chances are, it will give...

I did a production of Macbeth in the 1960s in which I had a swordfight in the final scene. But the blade fell off my sword just as I was stabbing the guy. I ended...

A scene has to have a rhythm of its own, a structure of its own.

Writing a first-draft battle scene is akin to real combat—chaos, confusion, and you must keep your cool as you fire word bullets downrange.

When a person who is very ill decides to treat it like a slight virus, you play that game. If you make a big scene, I think it is yourself you are doing it for,...

Kaladin walked, feeling numb. He’d thought that there was nothing more life could do to him, nothing worse than the slave’s brand with a shash, nothing worse than losing all he had to the war,...

When you’re in that scene, you really wonder if this is all you’re ever going to be. You know how vile and filthy you are inside.

I don’t personally look to my own life experiences for answers about how to play a scene.

Every frame and every scene has to have an intention.

Humor is so important to the American scene throughout history.

Funny, cute and kissableI’ve found a girl that makes me lose controlEvery night’s like the first nightNever gettin’ old

You need to find the size of performance that’s appropriate to the material, appropriate to the shot, or appropriate to the scene.

My dad became a soap opera actor, and I was an extra in a skating rink scene on the soap. I didn’t audition. It was nepotism all the way.

Can you say why America is the greatest country in the world?It’s not the greatest country in the world. That’s my answer… [turns to a panelist] Sharon, the NEA is a loser. Yeah, it accounts...

I am looking to get into the grime rap U.K. scene.

I’ve never wanted to be part of an inner circle of any scene. I’ve always been an outsider looking to question and subvert.

I know that I’m a decent actor, but it’s another thing to be in a scene with Jon Hamm and hold your own.

It’s always a little nerve-wracking to do a love scene, more than anything because it’s just awkward.

Friar Laurence:O, mickle is the powerful grace that liesIn herbs, plants, stones, and their true qualities: For nought to vile that on the earth doth live, But to the earth some special good doth give;...

I can’t stand the club scene. It’s all about impressing people.

The velvet tapestry of the night curved from horizon to horizon, flecked with thousands of tiny stars. There seemed all the more of them, for as well as filling the sky, they shimmered in an...

To Savor The Scene, A Book, or A Friend.

I can’t stand the club scene.

Most of the time I’m thinking, I’m glad that scene was improvised.

One of my favorite stories is my first kissing scene with Linda Gray.

I was always intrigued with European cinema, and hated most American cinema. I didn’t like the one, two, three – boom! style, with a neat and tidy ending. That was never my scene.

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.

You can’t act for the editing. You just go in and do the scene the way you think is right.