He later noted, "if they're not going to give me a scene with Gillian, I'll just have to write one myself."

"Rather than just see her posing, we wanted to give her a scene and see her acting."

This gave us a blast of 88-degree air, plus a clean green scene punctuated by mud-splashed trucks waiting at crossings.

Then they gave her a scene to read, and I was absolutely amazed she could act.

For example, the Dutch saying "That's not a cat to be caught without gloves" gives a good frantic chase scene.

Mr. Cleese, who has what is - technically, anyway - the romantic lead, gives himself a nude scene.

At the festival, the finalists chose a genre and were given a scene to read to camera.

Aquascaping arranging the decor materials to give a pleasing underwater scene.

Being a piano technician also gave him a superb entree to the New York music scene.

I gave her a scene in the film and told her that we are not going to give her any directions.