Some stage directions you just simply have to throw away. Votes: 3
If you read Shakespeare's stage directions, all the gore and violence is right in there. Votes: 3
I've always felt that in a comedy script the stage directions should also have a comedic value. Votes: 3
Oliver [Goldstick] is a very dynamic and imaginative writer, so the stage directions were visceral and very clearly written. Votes: 3
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. Votes: 3
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. Votes: 3
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. Votes: 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. Votes: 3
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. Votes: 3
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. Votes: 3
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. Votes: 3
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. Votes: 1
From Spiritual Directions of Diadochus of Photiki Votes: 3 Vladimir Aleksandrovich Antonov
All the world's a stage, and all the men and women merely players: they have their exits and their entrances; and one man in his time plays many parts, his acts being seven ages. Votes: 6 William Shakespeare