Famous Quotes & Sayings

Graham Moore

If you're going to make a film, and you're going to have dialogue, and you want to take the characters seriously, let's understand what they're saying. If there is going to be technical dialogue, let's render it in a way that the audience can understand it and expect that it's not going to be so far over their heads.

James Norton

If you compare the violence in 'Happy Valley' to the violence in something like 'Game of Thrones,' it's nothing. But it is shocking because it's so real and grounded. The characters could live next door to you - they're not in a remote fantasy world.

In older science fiction stories, they had to rely on storytelling as opposed to spectacle. The old run of the 'Twilight Zone,' the star was the writing and the storytelling, and the characters and the twists and the cleverness in the setup and payoff and execution.

Julie Kagawa

I like to put my characters through a lot, so, in 'Talon,' my fans will find familiar themes of bravery and sacrifice, and what it means to be human... even if you're not human.

O. J. Simpson

I prefer movies. I think it's nice to go to difference characters and kinda jump around. Maybe one day I'll do a TV show again.

David Bergen

Invite characters of surprising and moral character, or at least those who grapple with what is right or those who make decisions that shock.

Melissa McCarthy

In terms of the characters I think are really fun to play, a lot of times it's someone in my head saying 'I know that woman.'

Adan Canto

In theater, you go in-depth with your character, so coming to the States, it was inevitable to dig into the pilots I liked. I knew what characters I was going to be reading for, so I would dissect them and really get involved with them.

Kimberly Willis Holt

I hope the wonder of what happens to my characters never goes away. That yearning keeps me writing.

Kodi Smit-McPhee

I think I've been good at getting into lonely and troubled characters because, not to brag, but I'm the complete opposite in real life.

Kim Edwards

I've always set my stories in places I know well. It frees me up to spend more imaginative time on the characters if I'm not worrying about the logistics.

John Burnside

Every time I write a book, I think how I could be doing it better to please people - a nicer book with nicer characters - but I just can't.

Jean M. Auel

I can move my characters through it easily, because I understand the background; I've really studied it.

David Small

I don't like my parents; I never will. I didn't cry at either of their funerals. I haven't missed them for five seconds. I didn't - you know, our characters were so at odds with one another right from the beginning. But I do understand them now as human beings, with the understanding of an adult.

Hope Davis

I do feel I get called to troubleshoot parts that could be so unsympathetic, ... I don't mind that. To me, they seem like juicy roles. They are characters in conflict, but they are not despicable. I'd rather be this kind of wife than a woman wringing her hands at home saying, 'When is he coming back?'

Jason Robert Brown

Comedy is drama. I think that if your characters are feeling something that is very real, then they have to respond in a way that feels real to them, and some situations, the only response you could possibly have is to respond in a way that's so extreme that people are going to laugh.

If I didn't write sex scenes, all my characters would head to the kitchen and make cups of tea.

Heath Ledger

I felt this was such a refreshing story of love. For me, our characters were also complex, and to...really investigate this form of humanity and expression of love was an opportunity that I hadn't had.

JoBeth Williams

I felt they had really moved the characters in a direction that was very interesting. The family had really felt the impact of what had happened to the.

I did a 10-page treatment, then started working on biographies for each of the characters. By the time I was finished writing those biographies, I understood completely where each of those characters was going.

Steve Buscemi

I don't tend to think of these characters as losers. I like the struggles that people have, people who are feeling like they don't fit into society, because I still sort of feel that way.

Ezra Miller

I'd say I'm drawn to characters that ring true to me. Adolescence is a troubled time for everyone, so a lot of those characters have been troubled, tortured people. It's been a great way to navigate my adolescence by having these more troubled kids as an outlet.

Rita Volk

I, as a fan of numerous TV shows and movies, know that people mess up. The characters that we love are not always going to act in the ways that we want them to. That's what makes them interesting.

Corey Reynolds

I feel like a lot of the portrayals of, in particular, younger minority ethnic characters on television, a lot of their dialogue, a lot of their characteristics, a lot of their personality in a writer's eyes, is kind of propelled through their ethnicity.

He's one of the coolest characters in the business. Everybody here is a kid at heart, but he just shows it.

Diane Lane

He's much more of a veteran than I am in the genre, ... He encouraged me to trust my instincts and tried to pull me into more improvisation. I'll get there, but this is not that film for me. It was more of what Gary had in mind; he heard the way the characters speak in his ear when he wrote the words.

How many stunts can you pile on before the characters get really stale and boring?

James Frain

Characters who have some kind of free rein on their darker selves are always fun because they've taken the license off. You just get to fill out all the colors.

Darin Strauss

Characters stretching their legs in some calm haven generally don't make for interesting protagonists.

William Wordsworth

Characters of the great Apocalypse,/ The types and symbols of Eternity,/ Of first, and last, and midst, and without end.

Aneurin Barnard

I always used to pretend to be different characters - cowboys, that sort of thing. I used to think that the Indians lived over the mountains that I could see out of my bedroom. As I grew up, I started to understand that acting was actually a craft, and there was no question about it, that was exactly what I was going to do.

Anthony Marra

Calvin and Hobbes are the only two characters from my childhood reading that I return to with any regularity, and they have grown with me, yielding newer and deeper meaning.

Graeme Murphy

But I also wanted to give them an intelligent emotional journey, without having to suspend reality - to be able to look at those characters and see reasons for the relationships and why what happens happens.