Top 22 Quotes About Stage Directions
#1. Cathedral terminology was like stage directions - totally counterintuitive.
Dan Brown
#2. You can skim those stage directions and go right to the dialogue. You can almost read the movie in the same amount of time it will take you to see the movie.
William H. Macy
#3. I just love language. I mean, I love it. I love stage directions. Any opportunity to write. I hadn't written in so long, I get very crazy and miserable. I - it's like not seeing my kids: I can't do it for very long.
Joss Whedon
#4. If you read Shakespeare's stage directions, all the gore and violence is right in there.
Teller
#5. Writers love to write those idiotic, long stage directions, and some of them worse than others. They have nothing to do with the movie. They're just jerking around.
William H. Macy
#6. With everything I've done from "Jackie Brown" on, I got really into really writing more prose in the - in what you're calling the stage directions, all right. And consequently my scripts have gotten bigger and bigger, and got to "Kill Bill" volume 1 and 2.
Quentin Tarantino
#7. Francis Ford Coppola did this early on. You tape a movie, like a radio show, and you have the narrator read all the stage directions. And then you go back like a few days later and then you listen to the movie. And it sort of plays in your mind like a film, like a first rough cut of a movie.
Al Pacino
#8. Don't write stage directions. If it is not apparent what the character is trying to accomplish by saying the line, tell us how the character said it or whether or not she moved to the couch isn't going to aid the case.
David Mamet
#9. Some stage directions you just simply have to throw away.
Judd Hirsch
#10. I usually write very few stage directions. I think a lot of that is a waste of time. The art of screenwriting is in its terseness, saying a lot with a little. I have no patience when I read a script where the writer describes this guy and what he's wearing and his glasses and his hair.
Scott Frank
#11. I've always felt that in a comedy script the stage directions should also have a comedic value.
Bruce Robinson
#12. Sometimes you write and you find yourself almost wondering how it will turn out. I don't think every writer sort of almost admits that at some stage his books can take on their own kind of life it selves and simply lead away into directions that they're not kind of prepared for.
J.P. Donleavy
#14. Right before I go on stage, I'm absolutely terrified. My mind darts at many directions, but the center of me is going forward into the performance.
Sarah Brightman
#16. And I remember most of what I know that is good and true and lasting has come not from scholars but from minstrels and gypsies ...
Robert James Waller
#19. I never fell in love with another woman. I cannot have a relationship with a woman if I'm not in love ... I'm a very particular person, I'm not very much interested in short adventures with women or girls. I have to fall in love with someone in order to have a realtionship with her.
Omar Sharif
#20. People are proud of their players.
Joe Torre
#21. I wish I could say I write 9-5. It's usually more like 8-6, every day but the weekends.
Kim Harrison
#22. I was on the ground, I was in command, I had been given the mission, and I took the decision.
Romeo Dallaire
