Words matter. These are the best Staged Quotes from famous people such as Anupam Kher, Alan Huffman, Joshua Oppenheimer, Michael Portillo, Edward Zwick, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
When I staged the play and narrated my story to the audience, people found it amazing that after facing so many hardships, I have gone on to do 482 films.
When President Teddy Roosevelt posed for the cameras astride a massive steam shovel during construction of the Panama Canal in 1906, it was more than a simple photo op. Though the scene was clearly staged, it symbolized a crucial moment in American history.
I think Direct Cinema’s trying to be insightful by looking at reality in a very close way while, in fact, much more is staged than we like to think. In cinema verite, it’s about trying to make something invisible visible – the role of fantasy and imagination in everyday life.
My grandfather, who was always keen to promote living artists, staged an unprecedented exhibition of Peploe’s works at Kirkcaldy in 1928.
I’ve done all sorts of different kinds of action. We did a thing in ‘Blood Diamond,’ the attack on Freetown, where I carefully staged the action but did not show the camera operators what we were going to film – so it has the feel of documentary, trying to capture something, and that gave it a whole different feel.
I’ve admired Sivaji Ganesan ever since he staged ‘Veerapandiya Kattabomman.’
While conducting a conventional war in Iraq and Syria, ISIS has staged terrorist attacks on a global scale against the people from the countries who are fighting ISIS.
For every rockabilly festival staged here, there are 10 held overseas.
I always work only with friends, but it must be about them and myself. Because I film only very personal moments, nothing preplanned, staged or written, it has to be real and spontaneous. Some of them have become famous, some are not yet famous, some will never be famous. But they are all my friends.
Three of the brightest baseball pitchers of their times staged comebacks without much success – David Cone, Jim Bouton and Jim Palmer – but there was room to admire their quixotic gesture.
The story is a machine for empathy. In contrast to logic or reason, a story is about emotion that gets staged over a sequence of dramatic moments, so you empathize with the characters without really thinking about it too much. It is a really powerful tool for imagining yourself in other people’s situations.
I wrote about 22 plays before ‘When You Cure Me,’ which was staged in 2005. I occasionally get them out and have a read, thinking maybe there’s a thought or an idea or even a turn of phrase that I could use for something new. There’s not. They’re dire.
Nothing that you see on ‘Indian Idol’ is ever staged or planned.
The news is staged, anticipated, reported, analyzed until all interest is wrung from it and abandoned for some new novelty.
‘What’s the Use’ is normally done with all the women onstage with Julie. Sometimes it’s staged as a ‘lay at my feet, dear children, and let me tell you the ways of life.’ We felt like that wasn’t really what was going on.
‘Black Hawk Down’ wants to be about something, and in the midst of the meticulously staged gunfire, the picture seems to choose futility arbitrarily.
The text loses its virginity simply by being staged: it’s no longer the abstract ideal version; it’s an event.
In 2001, Katie Couric told ‘Today Show’ audiences that 7 percent of Americans doubt the moon landing happened – that it was staged in the Nevada desert.
The word ‘theatrical’ makes me cringe, because it suggests a performance is staged, put on, rehearsed. And while all this is true for an opera, I believe the act of singing and performing should always be honest, raw, guttural.
We know of instances of stage plays being made into films. But I really think that all Tamil films can be staged; I’d like to take up K. Balachander’s films and do that.
And I sense it was a rather constructed, almost half narrative fiction film in some ways. A lot of it was staged and manipulated to get those things in there that I knew to be strong.
The beauty of MMA is that it’s not staged, it’s a real sport and we have a lot of Punjabis involved in it.
Each culture has its own form of staged combat, evolved from its particular method of street fighting and cleaned up for presentation as a spectacle, e.g. savate, Cornish wrestling, karate, kung-fu.
A play called ‘Bichchu’ with Om Puri in the main role was going to be staged and I was working backstage. An actor failed to turn up for rehearsals and the director asked me to do that role instead. I agreed and would go to the beach to rehearse my dialogues as I had no place to stay those days.
I have always staged my fears as a way to transcend them.
I like to be real. I don’t like things to be staged or fussy.
Do not underestimate the intelligence of our farmers. They are not part of the protests staged by the Congress, which is resorting to gimmicks such as burning tractors.
Did you know I staged the first performance in America of At the Hawk’s Well?
I paint mostly from real life. It has to start with that. Real people, real street scenes, behind the curtain scenes, live models, paintings, photographs, staged setups, architecture, grids, graphic design. Whatever it takes to make it work.
The whole idea that the rescue was staged or the soldiers were shooting blanks, that’s just obvious stuff. Why would you do that in the middle of a war? It’s just crazy.