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A lot of times, good improv is when both people, or however many people are in the scene, really have no idea what the next thing you're going to say is.
John C. Reilly
Good
You
People
Say
No Idea
Scene
Both
Idea
However
Lot
Times
Improv
Going
Really
Next
Next Thing
Many
Thing
Motley never once sat down and said, 'Well, the music scene's changing. We need to make this record a little darker or heavier musically or lyrically.' It was just four guys sitting in a room like a bunch of 16-year-olds in a garage and jamming on riffs.
John Corabi
Music
Down
Changing
Lyrically
Once
Musically
Darker
Record
Guys
Scene
Never
Like
Well
Make
Said
Motley
Bunch
Sitting
Just
Heavier
Jamming
Little
Room
Sat
Garage
Riffs
Four
Need
I don't walk around talking about my life and spouting my philosophy to people I don't know. I mean, if I get to know them, I'll talk for hours. I guess I like a lower-key scene.
John Cusack
Life
People
Walk
My Life
Guess
Philosophy
About
Scene
Like
Hours
Know
Talk
Talking
Around
Get
Mean
Them
As the scene of life would be more the cold emptiness of space than the warm, dense atmosphere of planets, the advantage of containing no organic material at all, so as to be independent of both these conditions, would be increasingly felt.
John Desmond Bernal
Life
Space
Organic
Cold
Increasingly
Independent
Would
Would-Be
Atmosphere
More
Scene
Both
Advantage
Containing
Emptiness
Felt
Material
Conditions
Dense
Than
Warm
Planets
I'm a great believer in the novelist being 'on the scene,' reporting, traveling, meeting all sorts of people.
John Gregory Dunne
Great
People
Great Believer
Meeting
Scene
Sort
Reporting
Being
Novelist
Traveling
Believer
I learned that the best way to work is to allow the scene to live on its own before making major adjustments, whether in rehearsal or on film.
John Krasinski
Work
Best
Before
Own
Live
Way
Adjustment
Best Way
Scene
Allow
Major
Learned
Making
Whether
Rehearsal
Film
Pixar has been compared to fine furniture makers who polish the backs of drawers - even if you don't see everything in a particular scene, you still feel that every little detail has been met.
John Lasseter
You
Met
Every
Everything
Furniture
Backs
Has-Been
Detail
Fine
See
Scene
Feel
Particular
Polish
Makers
Still
Been
Pixar
Little
Who
Even
Compared
I work very hard on motivating everything I do as an actor. Explosive moments have to be completely motivated; whether they're explosive comedy or explosive horror, they have to come organically out of a scene and an interaction with another actor.
John Lithgow
Work
Comedy
Everything
Out
Horror
Scene
Come
Another
Motivated
Motivating
Very
Interaction
Whether
Organically
Hard
Explosive
Moments
Actor
The whole London football scene is now financially more powerful and ambitious than ever before. That reflects the city's economic might and its multiculturalism. Now West Ham have a new , and Spurs and Chelsea will follow. And the London clubs have widened their areas of support.
John Motson
Will
Before
Financially
City
Follow
London
More
Scene
Economic
Area
Football
Support
Powerful
New
Chelsea
Ham
West
Spurs
Ambitious
Reflects
Than
Clubs
Might
Multiculturalism
Whole
Now
Ever
We taped all this and then got it transcribed and picked the best lines or ideas or ways to take a scene. I've done that many times, and it can improve the script but also wreck a perfectly good scene.
John Schlesinger
Best
Good
Ways
Wreck
Scene
Take
Picked
Perfectly
Ideas
Also
Got
Lines
Times
Improve
Done
Script
Then
Many
In the States, this type of jam-band phenomena has opened it up for groups to improvise, admittedly more in the groove area, as opposed to the straight-ahead jazz thing - which is good for me, as that's one part of where I'm at. It's been so great playing these gigs and seeing kids come out and the whole college scene.
John Scofield
Good
Great
Me
College
Improvise
Jazz
Type
States
Kids
Out
Gigs
Seeing
Admittedly
More
Scene
Area
Part
Opened
Come
Opposed
Been
Up
Where
Which
Groove
Whole
Groups
Thing
Phenomena
Playing
On 'Mad Men,' I have a bit of an advantage because I know who gets better as they repeat a scene and who's best at the beginning.
John Slattery
Best
Better
Men
Beginning
Bit
Mad
Mad Men
Scene
Advantage
Know
Because
Repeat
Gets
Who
We were using a hand-held camera to film the scene when Morse collapses. The camera wouldn't start. Three times they said action and it still wouldn't work. To this day, they still don't know what was wrong.
John Thaw
Work
Day
Three
Action
Scene
Morse
Wrong
Know
Said
Still
Were
Camera
Times
Using
Film
Start
The romance stuff is easy. A sex scene... that's hard, because you don't know what to do. Those scenes are awkward.
John Turturro
You
Sex
Those
Easy
Scene
Scenes
Stuff
Know
Because
Romance
Hard
Awkward
Novelists are not equipped to make a movie, in my opinion. They make their own movie when they write: they're casting, they're dressing the scene, they're working out where the energy of the scene is coming from and they're also relying tremendously on the creative imagination of the reader.
John le Carre
Creative
Own
Energy
Imagination
Tremendously
Out
Dressing
Scene
Relying
Casting
Write
Also
Make
Reader
Opinion
Equipped
Coming
Where
In My Opinion
Movie
Working
Novelists
Like every novelist, I fantasise about film. Novelists are not equipped to make a movie, in my opinion. They make their own movie when they write: they're casting, they're dressing the scene, they're working out where the energy of the scene is coming from, and they're also relying tremendously on the creative imagination of the reader.
John le Carre
Creative
Own
Energy
Every
Imagination
Tremendously
Out
Dressing
About
Scene
Relying
Casting
Write
Like
Also
Make
Reader
Opinion
Equipped
Coming
Where
In My Opinion
Movie
Working
Novelist
Novelists
Film
Of course I danced a lot when I was making 'Swingers.' The swing music scene was big in Hollywood, and I went to places like The Derby. And, after I wrote it and was trying to get it made, I would go every week so I'd be good at dancing.
Jon Favreau
Music
Good
Made
Big
Every
Danced
Music Scene
Dancing
Would
Scene
Week
Like
Wrote
Course
Making
Go
Lot
Get
Trying
After
Places
Hollywood
Derby
Swing
I don't think I ever will do a sex scene because of my religion and my personal standards.
Jon Heder
Religion
Will
Sex
Think
Scene
Because
Personal
Standards
Ever
If I do a scene with an actor who doesn't have much experience, I say, 'I tell you what we're going to do: You just listen to me, and then you respond. We don't have to do any acting.' And that's good advice because you shouldn't see the acting.
Jon Voight
Good
Me
You
Experience
Advice
Say
Respond
Tell
See
Scene
Because
Any
Going
Listen
Just
Then
Much
Good Advice
Acting
Who
Actor
Once the big lights come in, you can feel self-conscious. How can you capture the scene without ruining it and freezing people up? You keep it small and lean.
Jonathan Krisel
You
People
Big
Ruining
Once
Small
Scene
Self-Conscious
Feel
Lights
Come
Lean
Freezing
Without
How
Up
Capture
Keep
It's like that scene from The Player when they talk about merging Star Wars and Kramer vs. Kramer, or whatever. You could do that with music and it would just be awful.
Jonny Greenwood
Music
You
Whatever
Just Be
Would
About
Scene
Could
Merging
Like
Talk
Kramer
Just
Wars
Star
Star Wars
Awful
Player
I sit every once in a while and I think about plays and films I can do with William Petersen into our eighties. He's the most incredible scene partner I've ever had.
Jorja Fox
Partner
Sit
Every
Think
Films
Incredible
Our
Once
William
About
Scene
Had
He
Most
Eighties
While
Ever
Plays
I like to give dimension to shots inside action scenes. It's demanding because you have to rehearse a lot of things happening at the same time and frame all those things in a shot. But I feel like when you accomplish that then you've got a cool action scene.
Jose Padilha
Time
You
Demanding
Action
Frame
Those
Dimension
Inside
Give
Scene
Scenes
Feel
Like
Because
Got
Accomplish
Lot
Same
Same Time
Happening
Then
Shot
Shots
Cool
Rehearse
Things
To me, a sex scene in a movie generally means a gratuitous scene that doesn't serve the story but gives a kind of excuse - we've got these two actors, we want to see them naked, so let's bring in the music and the soft light.
Joseph Gordon-Levitt
Music
Me
Light
Sex
Naked
Kind
See
Scene
Gives
Generally
Excuse
Got
Want
Movie
Story
Them
Means
Actor
Gratuitous
Serve
Bring
Two
Soft
My parents always instilled in me this feeling of wanting to be a normal person. I never moved out to L.A. as a kid and got into that scene and that whole thing that happens to kid actors that's the reason they go off the deep end.
Joseph Mazzello
Me
Parents
Feeling
Kid
Out
Scene
Never
Instilled
Always
Got
Go
Normal
Off
End
Normal Person
Person
Moved
Wanting
Happens
Reason
Deep
Whole
Deep End
Actor
Thing
During one performance of 'Les Miserables,' the barricade didn't leave the stage, so we had to actually end up finishing the second act with the barricades on the stage, which was very strange... doing the love scene on the barricade.
Josh Young
Love
Strange
Stage
Scene
Finishing
Had
Performance
Leave
Doing
End
Up
Very
Love Scene
Which
Act
Les
Les Miserables
Actually
Second
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