Quotes about character
character innocence innocent
Your characters have to remain innocent of what your picture is after. Douglas Sirk
character flesh lasts
WE HAVE HAD OUR LAST CHANCE. THE PROBLEM NOW IS BASICALLY THEOLOGICAL, AND INVOLVES SPIRITUALITY AND IMPROVEMENT OF human CHARACTER. IT MUST BE OF THE SPIRIT IF WE ARE TO SAVE THE FLESH. Douglas MacArthur
character actors done
My own personal process with movies is to develop the characters with the actors and, when I've done that properly, you can't imagine anyone else, but that actor, playing that part. Doug Liman
character shopping actors
It's almost a work-shopping process to create the characters with the actors.
character men iron
It's hard to get a movie made about characters these days. We're in a climate where, unless it's based on a toy or it's a superhero where somewhere it ends in man - like Spider-Man, Superman or Iron Man - it's hard to get it made.
character stories might
In movies, you can basically buy the audience into the theater. If you spend enough money on visual effects, even if you are lacking in story and character, you might still pull it off.
character successful years
TV has no choice, but to rely on character, and everybody knows that. I love working in it. It's such a big canvas where, if you're successful, you go on for years.
character choices sides
For big Hollywood movies, I'm on the more character-driven side of the equation. So, TV is a natural place for me to be because you've got no choice, but to be character-driven.
character pride casting
I pride myself on doing character-driven movies and, when my movies have worked, it's been because of the right casting and the right character, and it just clicks.
character thinking actresses
I think if you work as an actress and are supposed as a character to be in love with some actor, then to some extent you do have to be in love with him. Dorothy Stratten
character giving choices
I start with the story, almost in the old campfire sense, and the story leads to both the characters, which actors should best be cast in this story, and the language. The choice of words, more than anything else, creates the feeling that the story gives off. Donald E. Westlake
character choices conscious
Once he became a series character, I made the conscious choice that he would never act like a series character, never wink at the reader, never pull his punches. Better for him, better for me.
character technology thinking
I do think that in the near future, if it hasn't happened already, people will be able to use technology to design their own novels, perhaps with individuals themselves as the main character. In other words, everything is being individualized and narrowed. Don DeLillo
character america people
America is the world's living myth. There's no sense of wrong when you kill an American or blame America for some local disaster. This is our function, to be character types, to embody recurring themes that people can use to comfort themselves, justify themselves and so on. We're here to accommodate. Whatever people need, we provide. A myth is a useful thing.
character two dna
You're always working in the movie. Never was I me, and never have I been me, nor was he him. We were the two characters. But the character that I was playing was informed by my DNA, looking at him informed by his. Donald Sutherland
character mean play
I just want to work with good filmmakers and do good projects that mean something to me and play interesting characters. That's really it. Dylan O'Brien
character interesting perspective
It's interesting to play that [ Thomas in The Maze Runner], actually. The audience gets to see the character discover who he is, things that he never even knew about himself. I love that Thomas starts out as the newbie, as the 'Greenie', and the audience kind of experiences that through his perspective. It's really cool to watch him discover these leadership qualities that he has, and the way you approach it... I guess, just honestly. As honest as you can, really.
character heart past
I really am a character actor, in my heart of hearts, because I really do like developing characters and painting a past for them. Dylan McDermott
character people needs
It probably says something really clinically terrible about my character that I need to get up on a stage and go 'Ra ra ra' in front of people. Dylan Moran
character purpose faces
We face a hostile ideology global in scope, atheistic in character, ruthless in purpose and insidious in method. Dwight D. Eisenhower
character giving people
If you try to give people knowledge, and you haven't trained them in character, based on faith, they will become intellectual reprobates. Doug Phillips
character play want
Each character you play has its own set of characteristics, for want of a better word. Douglas Booth
character men opposites
The reputation of generosity is to be purchased pretty cheap; it does not depend so much upon a man's general expense, as it does upon his giving handsomely where it is proper to give at all. A man, for instance, who should give a servant four shillings, would pass for covetous, while he who gave him a crown, would be reckoned generous; so that the difference of those two opposite characters, turns upon one shilling. Doug Stanhope
character numbers common-sense
The last time anybody made a list of the top hundred character attributes of New Yorkers, common sense snuck in at number 79. Douglas Adams
character men principles
Man is not made better by being degraded; he is seldom restrained from crime by harsh measures, except the principle of fear predominates in his character; and then he is never made radically better for its influence. Dorothea Dix
character artist two
Most of the methods of training the conscious side of the writer-the craftsman and the critic in him- are actually hostile to the good of the artist's side; and the converse of this proposition is likewise true. But it is possible to train both sides of the character to work in harmony, and the first step in that education is to consider that you must teach yourself not as though you were one person, but two. Dorothea Brande
character creating secret
I'll tell you the secret. When you begin with a character, you want to begin by creating a villain. Dorothy Allison
character heart way
I need you to do more than survive. As writers, as revolutionaries, tell the truth, your truth in your own way. Do not buy into their system of censorship, imagining that if you drop this character or hide that emotion, you can slide through their blockades. Do not eat your heart out in the hope of pleasing them.
character thinking feminist
I don't think that the feminist movement has done much for the characters of women. Doris Lessing
character cutting things-in-life
I was always cutting dialogue out when we were rehearsing, and when I produced movies, too. I felt that people don't say things in life - they act, they do things. I always wanted my characters doing, rather than saying what they were doing - which was redundant. Donna Mills
character reality trying
I try to ground most of my characters in reality somehow. That's kind of what I bring to the table. Donnie Wahlberg
character people different
I didnt get arrested to show off my wild character. People say its a gimmick for all five of us to be different. Thats ridiculous.
character blood fiction
Character, to me, is the life's blood of fiction Donna Tartt