Michael Eklund Quotes

With a film, you know the beginning, middle and end of your character's arc. But on a TV show, you have no idea where they're going to end up.

Michael Eklund

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• I think, doing a first film, at some point you get halfway through, and you wonder, 'Is this is good enough to define who I am for the coming decade?'

  

  Sam Jaeger
  • Film
  • Wonder
  • Enough

• I started getting really interested in comedy when I was in middle school.

  

  Abbi Jacobson
  • School
  • Comedy
  • Middle

• The thing about Precious, she's so far from a Hollywood character. She's so honest and real, I definitely felt like I knew her.

  

  Gabourey Sidibe
  • Real
  • She
  • Character

• I dread the idea of a paparazzi snapping me while I'm out running.

  

  Paloma Faith
  • Me
  • Running
  • Idea

• Oftentimes, in fact I think this is to my fault, I look at usually scripts as a whole. I should probably pay more attention to the character that I'm going to play and what they do.

  

  Cameron Diaz
  • Character
  • Think
  • Attention

• Profitability comes from loyalty, productivity, and having a character base from which to work.

  

  Zig Ziglar
  • Work
  • Character
  • Loyalty

• I like Ned Leeds. I love the character so much. He's a very new character in the MCU. I think he's a very fresh take on people in the superhero world. Some superheroes crack under pressure, and Ned Leeds, who is not a superhero, doesn't.

  

  Jacob Batalon
  • People
  • World
  • Love

• A film has its own life and takes its own time.

  

  Aaron Eckhart
  • Life
  • Time
  • Film

• The hero is changing in Bollywood, and I approach a hero's role like a character by focusing on its weaknesses. I feel the weaknesses of a character make them more alive, relatable, and human.

  

  Randeep Hooda
  • Character
  • Human
  • Hero

• Everyone is going to die.

  

  Jack Kevorkian
  • Die
  • Going
  • Everyone

• When you're so passionate about cinema, the idea to direct your own film is really appealing.

  

  Gaspard Ulliel
  • Idea
  • Passionate
  • Cinema

• I always work with the tempo of the energy of the character, whether he's fast or slow, or heavy or light.

  

  Mads Mikkelsen
  • Work
  • Character
  • Energy

• When I was acting, I got trained in creating a character as a three-dimensional person. If you're doing it right you should be able to draw an audience into the character's world and make them feel their fears.

  

  Tana French
  • World
  • Character
  • Doing

• A national festival is an occasion to refine and rebuild the national character.

  

  Narendra Modi
  • Character
  • Festival
  • Rebuild

• Usually, witches are the little side character... a bad female character that comes in and leaves.

  

  Madchen Amick
  • Character
  • Bad
  • Witches

• I make it a point to study the character I do, and if the story demands that I wear a particular outfit, I'm game.

  

  Hansika Motwani
  • Character
  • Game
  • Study

• As I got further into my career, as a character of color, if I was going to have the types of opportunities I felt I deserved, and continue to have them, I was going to have to start creating those opportunities for myself.

  

  Lance Reddick
  • Character
  • Career
  • Myself

• I get really flowery and verbose in my adult books, but I don't think I dumb down my Y.A. It's just cleaner and more snappy. And the adult books have multiple points-of-view. In my Y.A., it's always third person from the main character's perspective.

  

  Gail Carriger
  • Character
  • Perspective
  • Down

• If I was going onstage, of course I would talk about it. How could I not?

  

  Larry David
  • Talk
  • Going
  • Would

• Nature magically suits the man to his fortunes, by making these the fruit of his character.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Character
  • Nature

• Every single work of art is the fulfillment of a prophecy; for every work of art is the conversion of an idea into an image.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Idea
  • Image
  • Conversion

• I think that a real film fan experience is about a kind of omnivorous experience.

  

  Tilda Swinton
  • Thinking
  • Real
  • Kind

• My mother was always encouraging about my wanting to be an artist.

  

  Chris Ware
  • Mother
  • Encouraging

• With a film, you know the beginning, middle and end of your character's arc. But on a TV show, you have no idea where they're going to end up.

  

  Michael Eklund
  • Character
  • Film
  • Idea