Michael Spiller Quotes
The pilot is a sales tool; it introduces you to the characters and might set the template for what the show is meant to be, but there's so many boxes you have to check off on a pilot that it can sort of hurt the storytelling in a way.Michael Spiller
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I really love storytelling.
Larry Wilmore -
All autobiography is storytelling; all writing is autobiography.
J. M. Coetzee -
I don't watch the show - only bits and pieces of all of them. The only one I sat through was the pilot.
Calista Flockhart -
Characters who don't suffer have no interest to me.
Kate Christensen -
Writers are not meant for action.
Manuel Puig -
The comics I made from 1990 to 1997 were largely based in vaguely urban, vaguely dystopic settings because that was my reference point for comics storytelling in general.
Nate Powell
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Myself and David, we both love art. We have a lot of respect for Damien Hirst and Julian Schnabel, and we've met them both, and they're very interesting characters. I also have a lot of respect for the working women out there. As you know, it's not easy when you're looking after children and you have a career as well.
Victoria Beckham Spice Girls -
The best characters in books are always the difficult ones, and why would you want to fall in love with someone difficult? The ones I'd fall in love with are the ones I'd definitely keep out of a book.
Patrick Ness -
I am a method actor, but I'm also a film actor as well as a method actor. Characters that don't have humility, whether they are heroes or villains, are hard to relate to. All characters in every aspect of what we do should have humility. If they don't, then they're a cartoon character.
Vincent D'Onofrio -
I think I can see more clearly now - about how the pattern of past experiences has shaped who I am and the characters I have played - and I'm grateful for that.
Kate Winslet -
As a Southerner, I love obstacles for my characters.
Karin Slaughter -
The truth of Scripture is meant not only to be studied-it’s meant also to be sung.
R. C. Sproul
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[Success] always starts with the material; it always starts with the truth and honesty of the characters that you read in the screenplay and that's rarely something that can be remedied if it's simply not there by the time you shoot the film. Thank God we had that.
Leonardo DiCaprio -
Usually, the creating of the book happens while I'm writing the book. I start with Chapter One, with a few ideas and a handful of characters, and the book grows from there.
Lily King -
I really feel that's part of why audiences go to movies now is to take you to a world you have no access to, whether it's the world of Avengers or Middle-earth or bars in Boston you would be afraid to go into. You see characters there - they aren't hobbits but they're close.
Ben Affleck -
I'm not going to experience the reality of hardship that sometimes my characters live in. I'm very cautious about that.
Colin Farrell -
Unity has never meant uniformity.
Martin Luther King, Jr. -
Age, habits of business and experience have modified many characters.
Napoleon Bonaparte
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I don't know if I could (do a TV show). I would if it had nothing to do with the comic. It would be really weird and maybe not feature any of The Umbrella Academy characters.
Gerard Way My Chemical Romance -
If you're doing gags, I think it's important to have characters who are as strong-willed and impactful as possible.
Akira Toriyama -
Every day the choristers of the social web chirp their advice about openness and trust; craigslist follows none of it, and every day it grows.
Gary Wolf -
Here 'neath veils, my Saviour darkly I behold; To my thirsting spirit all thy light unfold; Face to face in heaven let me come to thee, And the blessed vision of thy glory see.
Thomas Aquinas -
The Boss doesn't need friends, but the ones I do have, I keep very close.
Sasha Banks -
The pilot is a sales tool; it introduces you to the characters and might set the template for what the show is meant to be, but there's so many boxes you have to check off on a pilot that it can sort of hurt the storytelling in a way.
Michael Spiller