Character Quotes - Page 355

Tou don't have to spoon feed things to the audience. They have to work at things. Oftentimes, with binge-able stuff, second and third viewings are really important because you see, "Oh, that character I didn't like, that was supposed to be that way because, in Episode 9, he turned out to be a turncoat. Now, I'm going to go back and watch all those moments that I felt that way about him." That's what's fun about it.

That's the fun thing of casting a show. I'm a pretty strong believer that TV makes stars, not the other way around. I love the idea of having a cast where people don't associate them with too much baggage, so there's a certain amount of transparency between the character they're playing and the audience.

The national security issues are a really good window into the character of the person that somebody wants to have as commander in chief.

I feel very fortunate to be an actor on a network whose tag line is Characters Welcome and not Procedurals Welcome.

I think USA has a great handle on programming and content. They know their viewers and they know what works... Character driven programming!

You cannot go wrong with Bugs Bunny. He's the coolest cartoon character ever. I quote him all the time.

That's why I like old monster movie actors, because they transform into different characters or creatures.

I could not live by literature if only to begin with, because of the slow maturing of my work and its special character.

My fans and people who know of my character want to see me become more successful.

To me it's not so much that the movies are slow-paced as much as they are about spending time building a relationship between the audience and the characters. If you don't spend an adequate amount of time doing this, then how can you expect to scare anyone?

It's not the plot [of Valley of Violence] - the plot is the reason to get all these things to happen, all these character moments to happen. It was always meant to have these two perspectives.

I think having funny characters is just one way of having three-dimensional characters.

It's a combination of yes - making a movie about the characters - and then, also, budget.

You want to be able to say [to Ethan Hawke's character], "Dude, it's okay," but maybe it's not. Maybe he's not a good person. I don't know. That's the thing about people. There is no real good guy or bad guy [in A Valley Of Violence]. It's all context.

I mean PJ - James Ransone - he was a friend of mine, he probably heard all this stuff, but for the rest of the cast [Valley of Violence], we mostly just talked about their characters and things like that. That was the business at hand.

It's very important to me to find ways to relate the audience to the characters. This is the first thing to go in most mainstream horror films.

Character shows itself apart from genius as a special thing. The first point of measurement of any man is that of quality.

Plot makes the character just as history makes the man.

To include freedom in the very definition of democracy is to define a process not by its actual characteristics as a process but by its hoped for results. This is not only intellectually invalid, it is, in practical terms, blinding oneself in advance to some of the unwanted consequences of the process.

As an actor playing a character, I can't come in with my judgement, or else I can't play it honestly. My judgement has to be reserved for later.

Having the audience know more than the characters is precisely where you want to be in terms of drama. You can engage them much more when that is the case.

Men and women of integrity, character, and purpose have ever recognized a power higher than themselves and have sought through prayer to be guided by that power. Such has it ever been. So shall it ever be.

I do like to explore evil characters in my books.

What I look for in any character, good or bad, is whether I can hear him speak. If I can imagine him that clearly, then I can write about him.

It is unpleasant to see character throw itself away.