I'm not a very sentimental person, so you're not going to find schmaltzy scenes in my movies.
It's never really fun to have to cry in a scene or anything like that.
The way films establish the order of scenes is very artificial.
I came from a background of directing behind-the-scenes documentaries.
There are some scenes that work beautifully in a moving, sweeping master, which is how I like to work.
If you work in Chicago in the improv scene, anyone is happy for you if you get a job.
Memory is a funny thing. When I was in the scene, I hardly paid it any mind. I never stopped to think of it as something that would make a lasting impression, certainly never imagined that eighteen years later I would recall it in such detail. I didn...
What are the years from twenty to forty? Fettered and bound by personal and emotional relationships. That's bound to be. That's living. But later there's a new stage. You can think, observe life, discover something about other people and the truth ab...
You have to question a cinematic culture which preaches artistic expression, and yet would support a decision that is clearly a product of a patriarchy-dominant society, which tries to control how women are depicted on screen. The MPAA is okay suppor...
Death is just the last scene of the last act.
The bad guy always gets the best scene and the best lines in the film, and they usually get the most days off.
I played a scene at the end of my first year, and that's how I was discovered.
Jeff Bridges taught me a lot about how to keep a scene fresh.
Life is but a play and we are merely the characters of our own scene.
We only did probably two, three takes on every scene we did, at the most.
Breaking is when someone starts to laugh in the middle of a scene, which is so fun to watch.
I didn't disappear; I started writing songs and worked behind the scenes.
I've worked hard and accomplished what I've accomplished in the heavyweight scene.
The scene where I took my eyelashes off we did in two takes.
Every change of scene requires new expositions, descriptions, explanations.
Poop humor is fun. If you do the toilet scenes well and commit to them, they can be really, really powerful.
