Setting The Scene Quotes

#1. I enjoy setting the scene and coming up with interesting frames. 'True Detective' was a very hands-on set.

Cary Fukunaga

#2. Even the juncture in history and the zeitgeist we live in is something we choose, setting the scene for the spiritual fodder we need to grow and achieve deeper elevation of our souls.

Raquel Cepeda

#3. Bore children, and they stop reading. There's no room for self-indulgence or showing off or setting the scene.

Mark Haddon

#4. Well, I have an idea, usually a visual image of some sort. A setting. A particular, I don't know, urban scene, a particular time of day. Something that grips my imagination for some reason.

Philip Pullman

#5. With all of the qualities of the scene-setting, the dialogue, the place and time and the time and place in which your characters move. And I want to move with the characters, move with them and describe the world in which they are living.

Gay Talese

#6. I never fired anyone for telling me I was wrong.

Graham Speechley

#7. 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.

John Sandford

#8. I think of it as the lasagna approach to writing because I'm always adding layers. I'll sometimes do it layer by layer, with dialogue, attribution, action, objects in the scene, setting ... It can be sometimes that delineated.

Chelsea Cain

#9. No wonder simple men have always had their gods dwell in the high places. For as soon as a man lets his eye drop from the heavens to the horizon, he risks setting it on some scene of desolation.

Geraldine Brooks

#10. The man of fantasy must become the man of action, the adventure of dreams the adventure of life.

Milan Kundera

#11. We meet before the movie and she gives you charts with sounds on them and makes a tape of examples. While they are setting up the scene, I go with her to the trailer and we go through the scene and correct the speech.

Albert Finney

#12. I try to use all of my senses when describing a setting, and try to think of everything that would impact a character in any given scene.

Mercedes Lackey

#13. 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.

Justin Zackham

#14. Of course, everyone knows my story of being born in Russia and moving to the United States at 7. For a few years people would say, 'Well, she's living in the United States, but she's Russian.'

Maria Sharapova

#15. Make mistakes. Make great mistakes , make wonderful mistakes, make glorious mistakes. Better to make a hundred mistakes than to stare at a blank piece of paper too scared to do anything wrong, too scared to do anything.

Neil Gaiman

#16. Whilst the wolflets bayed,
A grave was made,
And then with the strokes of a silver spade,
It was filled to make a mound.
And for two cold days and three long nights,
The father tended that holy plot;
And stayed by where his wife was laid, In the grave within the ground.

Roman Payne

#17. Women power is a formidable force.

Gro Harlem Brundtland

#18. Scares that kid,

Patrick Carman

#19. Setting can be something that is a major player in a scene, something that makes the mood leap from the page. But if an author doesn't handle it right, it falls flat or seems overdone. It is a challenge getting it "just right".

Kim Smith

#20. The purple haze of the wych elms; the blue flash of a kingfisher's wings; the statuesque rightness of the milch cows in that green place chomping on the rich flood-grass.

Ronald Frame

#21. Jekyll and Hyde, in particular, is such an important novel in terms of suspense and setting a perfect scene for crime

Alanna Knight

#22. There are a lot of 'chicken Christians.' Chickens are generally afraid of life, and they seldom fly or reach their potential in life. And when a storm comes, all they seem to do is flap around the chicken yard, stirring up dirt and running to the chicken house.

Joyce Meyer

#23. The line between fiction and fact is at times factual and at times fictional

Pushkar Ganesh Vaidya

#24. He is a good and a great man; but he forgets, pitilessly, the feelings and claims of little people, in pursuing his own large views. It is better, therefore, for the insignificant to keep out of his way, lest, in his progress, he should trample them down.

Charlotte Bronte

#25. Fate, the monstrous scene-shifter, was setting the stage for the death of Uncle Fred, the elderly man.

George Bellairs

#26. The staircase was a mass of rotting wood, carved with such cruel-looking mermaids that Mr. Jelliby was afraid to put his hand on the banister.

Stefan Bachmann

#27. I like the fact you can spend two hours setting up a scene that will only last a couple of seconds. And I like just sitting around and dozing between scenes!

Mackenzie Crook

#28. The jet switched everything, one setting gone and the other there, like a conjuring act. This disorienting and instantaneous change of scene made places seem like channels on TV.

Jim Paul

#29. What did moths bump into before the electric light bulb was invented? Boy, the lightbulb really screwed the moth up didn't it? Are there moths on their way to the sun now going, It's gonna be worth it!.

Bill Hicks