Characters Quotes

• I really like directors who give you a certain amount of autonomy because I think a lot about my characters and I think a lot about scenes and choices.

  

  Sarah Gadon
  • Choices
  • Directors
  • Scenes

• In my writing, I try to combine all my favorite elements of journalism - accuracy, real characters that exist on this planet - with all my favorite elements of literature: a sense of flow, of propulsion, of wanting to read every sentence.

  

  Michael Finkel
  • Writing
  • Literature
  • Favorite

• I am really inspired by strong, badass, female characters. I would start with a revenge film, then ease into stories of badass everyday woman who make a difference in their own life for the better of people and environment around them. Stories of self realization.

  

  Alicia Sixtos
  • Environment
  • Film
  • Inspires

• I could almost hear the characters inside, murmuring and jostling, impatient for me to open the cover and let them out.

  

  Jennifer Donnelly
  • Characters
  • Inside
  • Hear

• If Christ lives in us, controlling our personalities, we will leave glorious marks on the lives we touch. Not because of our lovely characters, but because of his.

  

  Eugenia Price
  • Christ
  • Touch
  • Personalities

• I write what I want to write. Period. I don't write novels-for-hire using media tie-in characters, I don't write suspense novels or thrillers. I write horror. And if no one wants to buy my books, I'll just keep writing them until they do sell--and get a job at Taco Bell in the meantime.

  

  Bentley Little
  • Job
  • Write
  • Horror

• That's what acting is all about - it's all about bringing truth from your own life, and putting it into your characters. If you have the advantage of using your own life in your work, that's always the way to go.

  

  Michael Eklund
  • Way
  • Always
  • Acting

• Animation story boarding works differently than live action story boarding. The story crew along with a writer really does shape and create the film - the world and it's characters. We meet almost every day and brainstorm the plot of the film. It's a highly collaborative process - and we continue to improve the story until we literally run out of time.

  

  Nathan Greno
  • Story
  • Process
  • Collaborative

• I just try to put myself in the minds of all the characters.

  

  Julia Davis
  • Myself
  • Characters
  • Put

• I think the idea, first and foremost, is to understand that people may label these characters as villains, but at the end of the day I have to fall in love with the characters that I play. For me, they have to be real characters with real objectives, and driving forces. So they're all different.

  

  Edi Gathegi
  • People
  • Idea
  • Label

• Even though the play [The Best Man] was written a long time ago, the characters seem modern and their struggles to make ends meet and to "have a little fun along the way" have a very contemporary feel. The similarity between the The Great Depression and The Great Recession - as well as the gulf between the super-rich and the ordinary Joe - still rings a bell. One of the things this production accentuates is how beautifully Grandpa and his family accept all kinds of people - rich or poor, black or white - and the best thing that can happen to you is to be part of a loving family.

  

  Chris Hart
  • Play
  • Modern
  • Contemporary

• I think what's exciting about doing it as found footage - if we all are being honest, found footage gets a little bit of a bad rap sometimes, but I think that there's a lot of potential in the medium in taking it seriously and in treating the audience with respect and in treating the characters with respect in terms of, why is the camera really on? Where would the camera be when it is on?

  

  Dean Israelite
  • Audience
  • Camera
  • Exciting

• I truly believe the book of philosophy to be that which stands perpetually open before our eyes, though since it is written in characters different from those of our alphabet it cannot be read by everyone.

  

  Galileo Galilei
  • Believe
  • Philosophy
  • Alphabet

• When I was writing my first draft, and feeling grandiose, I e-mailed an artist/clothing designer I know and suggested we collaborate on a fashion line inspired by the outfits my characters wore. I regret that we never did that.

  

  Heidi Julavits
  • Draft
  • Outfits
  • Grandiose

• Reality television paints a simple black-and-white world of good characters and bad characters; people we want to root for and people we want to see ruined. There is none of the gray ambiguity that colors real life. I no longer watch a lot of reality television, but sometimes I can't look away from 'Honey Boo Boo.' I just can't.

  

  Molly O'Keefe
  • Sometimes
  • Television
  • Honey

• I think every film I make that puts characters in jeopardy is me purging my own fears, sadly only to re-engage with them shortly after the release of the picture. I'll never make enough films to purge them all.

  

  Steven Spielberg
  • Film
  • Characters
  • Jeopardy

• I write. I imagine. The act of imagining in itself enlivens me. I am not frozen and paralyzed before the predator. I invent characters. At times I feel as if I am digging up people from the ice in which reality enshrouded them, but maybe, more than anything else, it is myself that I am now digging up.

  

  David Grossman
  • Reality
  • Imagine
  • Maybe

• All a writer's characters are imaginary, no matter whether they are based on real people or not. They are people as one imagines them to be.

  

  Allan Massie
  • People
  • Real
  • Imaginary

• The characters are telling you the story. I'm not telling you the story, they're going to do it. If I do it right, you will get the whole story.

  

  George V. Higgins
  • Story
  • Characters
  • Telling

• When translating prose dialogue one ought to make the characters say things that people talking English could conceivably say. One ought to hear them talking, just as a novelist hears his characters talk.

  

  Arthur Waley
  • Characters
  • Talking
  • Translating

• I am tired of our characters being so incomplete. When do we ever save the day in a film? When does a Latino actor get to be the hero?

  

  Esai Morales
  • Film
  • Hero
  • Actor

• I don't think there is a need of the categorization 'woman writing'. I think in some sense writers lost their gender when they walk into the world of words; I believe that writers ought to be able to slip under the skins of both men and women. Only then will the writing and the characters have credibility and strength.

  

  Anita Nair
  • Writing
  • Strength
  • Credibility

• I would say it was the directors. We have to give credit to the directors for this, because in the script, we just said, "Gru's Minions do this or do that" in the initial draft. And then, they came up with the characters' design and the philosophical concept of the Minions. And then, we started writing to that. We have to give a lot of credit to them.

  

  Cinco Paul
  • Directors
  • Credit
  • Concept

• I would love to do some characters that have greater vulnerability. I don't know why. I know I can play these roles, but they're certainly not the only roles I can play.

  

  Kari Matchett
  • Play
  • Characters
  • Roles

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