Staged Quotes

(on Carol Reed) He was always a director who got as much out of actors as could possibly be gotten. And he could stage individual scenes as well as they could possibly be staged. If he had a weakness, which I admit he has, it was that he didn`t have a sufficiently keen story sense.

(on the famous fight scene in Superman II (1980)) The Salkinds (producers Alexander Salkind and Ilya Salkind) wanted to make a splash. Their vision was really big. I remember much of that as being fun. The strong wind blowing the cars around, from the three baddies with their super breath, that was all staged by (Richard Lester). And it had an element of humor to it, so it was fun for us to think of gags.

Take away the director from the staged play and what do you get? Usually a diminution of strife, a shorter rehearsal period and a better production.

(on Carol Reed) He was always a director who got as much out of actors as could possibly be gotten. And he could stage individual scenes as well as they could possibly be staged. If he had a weakness, which I admit he has, it was that he didn`t have a sufficiently keen story sense.

For every rockabilly festival staged here, there are 10 held overseas.

The ambulance missions are staged through the Public Health Emergency Preparedness and Response Office, ... The volunteers must wait for the assignments that will tell them where they`re going and what they`re going to be doing.

I really don`t want to write a score until the whole show is cast and staged.

There`s a kind of dynamic quality about theater and that dynamic quality expresses itself in relation to, first of all, the environment in which it`s being staged; then the audience, the nature of the audience, the quality of the audience.

Did you know I staged the first performance in America of At the Hawk`s Well?

I never staged a coup. They picked me up. Like I say, they forced me to become premier, maybe hoping that by that way, they send me to the electric chair.

The news is staged, anticipated, reported, analyzed until all interest is wrung from it and abandoned for some new novelty.

We don`t want (officials) to go in harm`s way. In this particular situation where there is somewhat of a `staged` incident or altercation, we would want our officials to get involved a little earlier.