We need more female directors, we also need men to step up and identify with female characters and stories about women. We don't want to create a ghetto where women have to do movies about women. To assume stories about women need to be told by a woman isn't necessarily true, just as stories about men don't need a male director.
When I write fiction, I create characters whose views are not my own, and I allow them to be eloquent in defense of their, not my, views.
In many films, as many different characters, I've killed many different people.
Larger-than-life characters make up about. 01 percent of the world's population.
I've learned a lot about stage-managing for illustration. Sometimes you have to delete characters from a scene just to keep from overcrowding the image. I've also learned to making big-scale design decisions early.
The best shows are always the ones that are very, very low-concept and just about great characters.
As most characters are that I play, there's a lot of me in it, anyway.
I actually see myself in all my characters. In order to imagine what it feels like to be another person I have to use my own experiences and responses to the world.
I love a large cast of characters. That's the way life is: it's flooded with people and we keep them all straight.
Sympathetic characters usually have a voice. They usually don't have any trouble being heard.
Characters do not change. Opinions alter, but characters are only developed.
Twitter is very impulsive and impermanent and you only have 140 characters. There is no greater 'Emperor' of Twitter than Stephen Fry.
The first time I walked into the Olympic athlete village seeing the Visa ATM machine with my picture on it and the Chinese characters saying "Destiny. " For some reason, it just boosted my confidence and it was before I had even worked out or had my first training or competed.
When I started to allow the characters to go where they wanted to go, I just had to follow.
I want to do a little bit of everything. I love sci-fi. I think it's more the characters that draw me towards things. I like strong women. I'm very interested in futuristic stuff, anything.
It's so important to create roles and characters and projects that feature black people in a way that's not specifically targeted toward the niche market, which is, like, a black movie is created and it's produced and pitched so that only black people will watch it. . . I want to see dynamic characters and roles that everyone wants to watch.
Yeah, what happened was Universal wanted one of the characters to be nice so they chose me so there was a scene where the girl was tied to the bed and I let her go.
My books are primarily plot driven but the best plot in the world is useless if you don't populate them with characters that readers can care about.
A writer should bury his thoughts deep and convey them through the characters in his novel.
I do like the idea of the novel of repressed college students being a contemporary novel of courtship! I guess what I would say to that is, we tend to think of historical periods and historical mores as ending a lot more concretely than they do. Like, in an Austen novel, there are lots of reasons - cultural, moral, religious - why the characters don't have sex during courtship. Maybe, even though those reasons have kind of expired, historically, they're still around in some sense.
