Quotes about characters
characters friend nice return spend suddenly time
There are characters which you spend a lot of time with, and you get to know, and you feel that -- suddenly it's a friend somewhere. And they are nice to return to.
characters grew influenced obviously pulled
Wherever a writer grew up, they're obviously influenced by that area, and I'm sure their characters are pulled from those experiences. Jim Rash
characters guy learned saw secondary talent younger
With those younger players, you saw their talent but they were always like secondary characters in a play, ... They never learned what it was like to be the go-to guy and they didn't think like that. Doug Wilson
characters competing possibly
Wonderful characters rotate around and through bookshops on a daily basis, competing with and possibly even triumphing over fiction when it comes to entertainment, strangeness and inspiration. Sarah Hall
characters soap
Writing for a soap - writing for 25 characters day in, day out - is one of the most difficult jobs in Hollywood. Eric Braeden
characters fun halt huge novel panic trust week
Writing a novel is a huge adventure; when it's going well it's more fun than fun. When it stutters to a halt put it aside. Go for a swim, go for a walk, take a week off. Don't panic or be afraid; you and your characters are in it together. Trust them to come to your rescue. Deborah Moggach
characters ears environment foreground goes home narrative people tv watch watching
Most people just half-watch TV. They watch TV while they are doing many other things in the environment of their home. So, what they are doing goes through their ears as much as through their eyes. In television, the narrative and characters are in the foreground of everything, because you are watching TV as you do other stuff. Alfonso Cuaron
characters discovered lead learning
What I discovered is I don't like to repeat lead characters because one of the most pleasurable things in a book to me is learning about the lead. Alan Furst
characters fans gets synergy watch
Sci-fi fans really have a commitment to the characters even as much as the actors do. There's a synergy between making television and who gets to watch it. Brooke Nevin
characters feeling funny gets happy life sad
'A Bug's Life' is a really funny movie and the characters have such different personalities. The movie is happy and then gets really sad and I'm like, W'hoa, I'm feeling this way and this movie is about bugs!' Booboo Stewart
characters paint verbal
I started out as an artist, and what I do is verbal paintings. I paint a picture. Hopefully, you'll see the characters and what they're doing and what they're saying. Jonathan Winters
characters gay message standard true
The message is that this (infidelity) is different because the characters are gay and just being true to themselves. If that's the standard of one's behavior, then anything is excusable. Michael Medved
characters sexual shaped stories television
Their sexual knowledge, attitudes, behaviors are all shaped in part by the characters in stories that television conveys.
characters female idiotic men
The female characters in 'Peep Show' are not 'strong': they are idiots. As idiotic as the men. Robert Webb
characters jane morally remaining slightly
It's not all 'Jane Eyre' out there. In her sweet, honorable, slightly passive-aggressive way, Jane was as perfect as a protagonist can get while remaining interesting; in fact, she's one of my favorites. But most characters are more morally ambiguous. Susan Isaacs
characters margin narrow played rarely realistic realize realizing until ways
In any story, drama may be intensified by the characters realizing by how narrow a margin they had managed to succeed - that is, where coincidence played a role. This is one of the more realistic ways to use coincidence because rarely do we realize how important a coincidental event is until after the fact. Jane Lindskold
characters elizabeth historical larger life miss mostly romance susan time
I'm mostly a historical romance reader, but I never miss a Susan Elizabeth Phillips book. Her characters are larger than life and heartbreakingly real at the same time. I don't know how she does it. Julia Quinn
characters grow hours love plants seasons watch watching
I know that when I watch TV, I want to be transformed and transported, not just by the characters that I grow to love over the hours and seasons of watching but also the world that it plants me into. Jon Favreau
characters major themselves
I know what I want to achieve in each book and the major points, but I don't plan right down to the chapters. I think that the characters write themselves in some degree. Samantha Shannon
characters finished knew stopped
I knew that when he stopped speaking, I would have finished the play. One day one of the other characters said something and he didn't reply, it was such a relief! Frank Kelly
characters guarantee intend life playing time true
I like playing characters that are true to life, and there's no guarantee that any of us are going to be okay, but we intend to be, and we take the time to try to be. I don't think it's any different for a character. Mehcad Brooks
characters period pieces playing type
I like playing a variety of characters. I feel like I've been able to play different kinds of characters - I've done a lot of period pieces - but I've never had to play the same type of character too much. James McAvoy
characters feature hit improvise specific tone
I like doing them and they're ridiculous and the actors can improvise a lot, and they don't have to be really realistic characters that hit a very specific tone as in a feature film. They're really fun, I want to make more of them definitely. Jim Jarmusch
characters draw interested
I'm not interested in characters who aren't broken. I'm not interested in happy people. It just doesn't draw me as a writer. John Logan
characters great opportunity work
I just want the opportunity to continue to do great films, play great characters and work with great people. Moira Kelly
characters electricity humor lean majority since toward
I lean toward anything with a dark sense of humor. And since I've been out of school, the majority of my books have been contemporary; basically, I like my characters to have electricity - even better, a TV. Andrea Seigel
characters dig interests strange understand within
I like characters with problems. I like to understand them... To play alcoholics, fetishists, strange girls, you have to dig deep within yourself. It's 'elsewhere' that interests me.
characters full spots
I like characters who have blind spots and are full of themselves, but there also needs to be vulnerability. Stephan Pastis
characters immerse
I immerse myself in everything I write; I feel what my characters do. I suffer with them. I cry as I type, sometimes to the point that I can't see the screen. Ann Aguirre
characters creating love sitting
I love writing, and I love the solitude of the writing, in that you're just sitting there creating something from nothing, or a new story for characters you love and care about. John Wells
characters love move vessel work
I love to be a vessel through which characters can come through. And if I can move an audience with my work, then I've done my job. Rutina Wesley
characters darker love
I love doing heightened reality stuff, and having fun with the characters I play, especially in a kind of darker way, which I don't get to do in 'Primeval' at all. Andrew-Lee Potts
characters loved
I loved the guy. He was one of the real characters of our time. When I think about him, I smile.