Famous Quotes & Sayings

Steven Soderbergh

I wanted to be as site-specific as possible. I said to each actor, 'I want you to talk about things you know about.' There's a screenplay but the goal was to incorporate as much of them into the characters as possible.

Jewel Staite

I've just always loved really good projects. The things that draw me into a new project have very little to do with genre and have more to do with the characters I'll be playing, the people I'll get to work with and things like that.

Everybody's been saying that since the day we started shooting it and when I wrote it that it would make a great series because the characters are so interesting and because it takes place in a small town, it could be ongoing,

Colm Toibin

Describe character using dialogue. Describe character using what the characters see or do or think, but not what they had done or where they had been.

Damn if these characters aren't gay to me. What Jake might have meant is that these guys live outside of a social construction of a gay identity.

It's a wonderful way to introduce children to the magic of live theater, with characters they can easily identify with.

Oded Fehr

It's a ridiculous thing to say, but truthfully I don't really like guns. But, I end up playing characters that use a lot of guns.

Susanna Clarke

It seemed to me that you make magic real by making it a little prosaic, a little difficult and disappointing - never quite as glamorous as the other characters imagine.

Geena Davis

It made perfect sense to me that I would play this part, ... I have always been interested in roles that are gonna be challenging for me - but also, characters that other women can identify with.

Mike White

It's fun when you create a world to inhabit it and see the other characters from grounds eye view.

It's funny, how you look at so many priests who are characters when you're growing up; then one day you find you're a character yourself,

Siri Hustvedt

It's hard to penetrate characters who are very cut off and lack empathy and to do it with sympathy. It's so easy to make a damaged character repugnant.

It's set in high school, so it's a different demographic we're going for. You look at those characters and you go, 'What would they be like 10 or 15 years earlier than the characters you saw in the first one?

Jack Coleman

That's one of the things that I've loved about 'Spider-Man' and Marvel in general. The characters all have dimension.

Lynda Carter

It's sometimes overshadowed by the fact that there's so much else going on and so much flash, but he won't do anything if he doesn't feel the characters are strong.

Each of the six characters are equal. There's no diva, no star of the show. They all are stars. There are times all six of them are singing at exactly the same time, and it actually makes sense. Mozart is the only person who could actually pull it off and make it work.

Sally Kellerman

That they were going to rebel? Yeah. They were just such rebels anyway, and their characters were rebels, so they just lived it to the hilt.

That's how we're made this year. We're a team, like an NFL team, that's going to utilize our personnel, that's going to use all the characters in our offense.

Keanu Reeves

Even though they are such fantastical characters and situations, it's still a man trying to figure it out. These motifs of messiahs and heroes and anti-heroes, these journeys are things that we deal with in our day to day.

Mal Peet

Everyone who sits on a sofa watching 'Match of the Day' is a top soccer expert, as you know. So if you start to worry about such people reading your story and saying, 'That'd never happen' you're going to freeze up. You're writing fiction, and your characters can do whatever you need them to do.

Ilie Nastase

Everyone today plays the same way, very dull. ... It is a pity there are no characters like John McEnroe, Jimmy Connors or, maybe, Ilie Nastase today.

Every moment can change. It launches from high comedy to serious matter. There are the comic elements, and then there are the more serious characters who are trying to do the right thing and be better.

Shaun Pollock

It's always good to have a partner who is full of energy, and who you can see is giving it 110 percent all the time. You need those kind of characters in a side.

Robin McLeavy

It's always exciting to play characters who are obsessive because all their energy is so focused on that one thing and they're eccentric because of it.

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.

Go to any Shinto temple in Japan and you'll see it: a simple stand from which hang hundreds of wooden postcard-size plaques with a colorful image on one side and, on the other, densely scribbled Japanese characters in black felt-tip pen, pleas to the gods for help or succor.

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.