Richard LaGravenese Quotes
. . . I felt that making her one-dimensional would be an insult to the audience, and also not as interesting. All destructive people have an inner side to them, and the more three-dimentional your characters are on screen the more compassion you can open up in an audience . . .. To me, that involves the audience more, it stimulates them and asks more of them.
Richard LaGravenese
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Some people seem to see compassion as being mushy.
Laura Schlessinger
I have this whole new audience now.
Katey Sagal
I've always been really involved in figuring out who my audience is and how to reach them.
Adam Mansbach
Anytime you get an audience that's paying attention, you enjoy it more.
Natasha Hamilton
I'd spend every summer in Longview on my grandfather's farm. It was a tiny little town divided by a river, which was the segregation line: that side white, this side black. And meanwhile, I lived in Compton - basically, another whole world sealed into 10 square blocks. It's interesting how insular an environment can be.
Forest Whitaker
Most of my characters are an amalgamation of people that I've met, my family, or myself. Being a writer, you can draw only from what you know. I am lucky to have really rich and interesting people in my family for, you know, interesting family nights and great characters.
Lake Bell
I had been to New Mexico many times. I loved it. It's a very exotic, interesting, severely crazy environment. I don't know if I could live there all year. It's such an intense place.
Campbell Scott
From 1970 onwards, our culture told both sexes that individual expression was paramount. And for women, that was defined as the right to choose an interesting a career, a high-status mate, the desirable handbag or vacation, the perfect family size, and a definitionally fruitless quest for 'perfection.'
Naomi Wolf
The chemistry of a pair on screen is known only when the audience reacts to it.
Ranbir Kapoor
I started a novel back in high school. It wasn't very good. It was the opposite of good. The writing itself wasn't too bad, and the characters were interesting. But the story was a mess, and it was full of fantasy cliches. Dwarf with an axe. Barbarian warrior. I don't ever think I'd bother finishing that. It's just not worth my time.
Patrick Rothfuss
I want to work on interesting parts that I can believe in.
Laetitia Casta
You can tell how uninteresting a person is by asking him whom he finds interesting.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Where names of people or places would mean little to a contemporary reader, I figured "translation errors" could create interesting new meanings.
Hal Duncan
People are like, 'What's Game of Thrones about?' I'm like, 'It's in the title.' For real, this is a game for the Iron Throne. No matter what character you are, you're sucked into that at some point.
Maisie Williams
I'm a really boring bloke, actually. My business is my hobby.
Lloyd Dorfman
I think that good storytelling of any kind does promote a humility in that it encourages you to see the world the way that other people see it.
Jonathan Dee
My short-term vision is the abolition of nuclear weapons. My long-term vision is the abolition of war.
Joseph Rotblat
. . . I felt that making her one-dimensional would be an insult to the audience, and also not as interesting. All destructive people have an inner side to them, and the more three-dimentional your characters are on screen the more compassion you can open up in an audience . . .. To me, that involves the audience more, it stimulates them and asks more of them.
Richard LaGravenese
