Quotes about character
character ears pages
Homer's whole language, the language in which he lived, the language that he breathed, because he never saw it, or certainly those who formed his tradition never saw it, in characters on the pages. It was all on the tongue and in the ear. Robert Fitzgerald
character brain way
Do you know how writers often say the characters take over... But that is more or less what it always feels like to me, too. Even though that's just a way of describing how your brain is working, it's still what you tend to feel. Wes Anderson
character interesting effort
I want to try not to repeat myself. But then I seem to do it continuously in my films. It's not something I make any effort to do. I just want to make films that are personal, but interesting to an audience. I feel I get criticized for style over substance, and for details that get in the way of the characters. But every decision I make is how to bring those characters forward.
character writing firsts
I like to write first-person because I like to become the character I'm writing. Wally Lamb
character animal secret
I just make what I like - warm and human stories, ones about historic characters and events, and about animals. If there is a secret, I guess it's that I never make the pictures too childish, but always try to get in a little satire of adult foibles. Walt Disney
character pride cartoon
I take great pride in the artistic development of cartoons. Our characters are made to go through emotions.
character feelings action
In our animation we must show only the actions and reactions of a character, but we must picture also with the action. . . the feeling of those characters.
character giving imagination
It's always a challenge bringing a great story classic to the screen. Giving visual form to the characters and places that have only existed in the imagination. But it's the kind of challenge we enjoy.
character personality
Until a character becomes a personality it cannot be believed.
character men expression
The story man must see clearly in his own mind how every piece of business will be put over. He should feel every expression, every reaction. He get far enough from his story to take a second look at it... to see whether there is any dead phase... to see whether the personalities are going to be interesting and appealing to the audience. He should also try to see that the things that his characters are doing are of an interesting nature.
character personality trying
I try to build a full personality for each of our cartoon characters - to make them personalities.
character world dimensions
We have created characters and animated them in the dimension of depth, revealing through them to our perturbed world that the things we have in common far outnumber and outweigh those that divide us.
character interesting people
Until a character becomes a personality it cannot be believed. Without personality, the character may do funny or interesting things, but unless people are able to identify themselves with the character, its actions will seem unreal. And without personality, a story cannot ring true to the audience.
character play realistic
Usually most characters I play are quite realistic. Virginie LeDoyen
character moon insanity
There are essential and inessential insanities. The later are solar in character, the former are linked to the moon. Tom Robbins
character adversity achievement
In my opinion, character is the most important determinant of a person's success, achievement and ability to handle adversity. Tom Landry
character giving people
Trying to find a human side to the character is a way to give them a chance to have people like them. Tom Ellis
character dark technology
If you find yourself concentrating on the technology rather than the sociology, you're like the vaudeville character who loses his keys on a dark street and looks for them on the adjacent street because, as he explains, "The light is better there." Tom DeMarco
character years shoes
When you're playing a character for 10 years, it can challenge you less than it did at the beginning, so it was exciting to take on some new shoes. Especially with Erich Blunt, because being a tech wizard wasn't something I thought I would do after Harry Potter. Tom Felton
character play different
I'd rather play a character that was really, really different to me as to someone who is quite close to my character.
character expression feel-good
Style for me is some one who figures out who they are. What works on them. What they feel good in and develops that. Develops their character. And the outer expression of their character is what is style. Tom Ford
character play tough
Take characters that Nicholson or De Niro play: they're not always tough Tom Berenger
character eight chill
The Big Chill is one of those things that everybody can identify with. Between eight characters, they can pick somebody who's somewhat like them
character perfect people
I like playing flawed characters, people who aren't perfect.
character spawn most-favorite
Batman is easily my most favorite character beside Spawn. Todd McFarlane
character gay thinking
People define gay cinema solely by content: if there are gay characters in it, it’s a gay film. . . . I think that’s really simplistic. Heterosexuality to me is a structure as much as it is a content. It is an imposed structure that goes along with the patriarchal, dominant structure that constrains and defines society. If homosexuality is the opposite or counter-sexual activity to that, then what kind of a structure would it be? Todd Haynes
character opportunity stuff
I've had the opportunity to do a wide range of stuff, a lot of different characters and they've all had their own kind of thing. Tony Hale
character one-thing seems
I'm always perversely attracted to characters that seem one thing, but are ultimately revealed as another. Tony Goldwyn
character men years
I directed and produced Conviction, a movie about a man who spent 18 years in prison for a crime he didn't commit. I got to know Innocence Project co-founder Barry Scheck very well - he's a character in the movie - and I got very passionate about the cause. It's just so inherently dramatic.
character interesting want
I don't want to do an action movie, because I've acted in them, and they're so boring to do, because they're so technical. The headache of that is daunting. But, if it were an action movie with really interesting characters, how great would that be?
character television moral
Whether it's movies or television that I've directed, or characters that I've played, I'm just always fascinated by the moral ambiguity inherent in life.
character journey focus
I've never really been a fan of violence. I'm more into the characters and their journey and those kinds of movies don't really allow for that. It's a different focus. Toni Collette
character thinking play
I think I'm true to myself - you hear that actors have like plans. I'm gonna do this type of movie, then I'm gonna play this kind of character, and that'll get me from A to B. I've never done that. I honestly just follow my gut and I don't think you can go wrong with that.