Character Quotes - Page 410

That'’s a way to increase the realism to the reader, if you want to get technical - you leave it [character] vague and you let the reader fill in the blanks with their imagination.

Is it possible, I wonder, for a man to truly change? Or do character and habit form the immovable boundaries of our lives?

I think, above all, the characters in my novels feel universal to the readers.

None of my characters are rich or famous, and the situations they find themselves in could happen to anyone.

The first film that really knocked me out was Alien by Ridley Scott. This is a great movie because no matter how many times I watch it, I still find myself fully invested in the characters despite the fact I know what is coming. I think it was this type of mastery of storytelling and the ability of bringing the audience so completely into another world that made me want to become a director.

With a historical novel you know that liberties are being taken. Since Walter Scott, we know that poetic license, dramatic license, that events been conflated and that liberties have been taken, characters ditto, dates rearranged. But people don't seem to understand that movies are fictions, they are dramatizations, at least historical movies, and we should accord the moviemakers some of the same understanding and latitude. When you go to a movie you know it's a dramatization and not history.

It's certainly more interesting for me as an actor, but I think it's also more interesting for the audience to see three-dimensional characters, rather than just a bad guy or a good guy.

That's sort of what I like about this character is that he's not the good guy, he's not truly the bad guy.

That's the main thing, looking for interesting characters, good directors, and experiences where you're growing and learning.

I'm pretty far from the character I play, so it's fun to mess around and be a 15-year-old again.

With thought, patience, and discrimination, book passion becomes the signature of a person's character.

If landscape is a character for me, then it helps if I'm familiar with it and I already have a take on it.

I find the constraints of drama actually freeing: It brings everything down to character and action.

I'm working on a project called Lemons, produced by Killer Films. The director has a great perspective on character development.

I can tell you it makes a big difference to have a director who is collaborative. What motivates a character in my mind could be completely different from what the director's thinking. You have to have those conversations ahead of time and throughout the process. It affects the performance.

The Buddha also counseled the monks and nuns to avoid wasting any precious time by engaging in idle conversation, oversleeping, pursuing fame and recognition, chasing after desires, spending time with people of poor character, and being satisfied with only a shallow understanding of the teaching.

You know you are really famous the day you discover you have become a comic character!

Alice Munro is a particular kind of short story writer in that she writes long, character-driven short stories.

Most good fiction also has a character the writer seems to know more deeply than anyone can actually be known in life, but a few unusual writers can make something great without that.

It's usually easier for me to begin writing in a character's voice if that person is different from me in some significant way.

'District 9', 'Elysium' and 'Chappie' were all born out of some visual concept first. 'Chappie' is the imagery, because I think I'm a visual person first, of this ridiculous robot character. It's much more comedy based and in an unusual setting.

The person who builds a character makes foes.

That movie [A Series of Unfortunate Events] told four books in two hours, and we have two hours per book. So we have eight hours to tell four books, and if people watch we'll get to tell more of them. There's only thirteen books, so there's only going to be two more seasons, but that allows for a lot of time to be in character and to maintain character.

I'm very interested in starting to produce, and direct, and have an umbrella over an entire project in the future. I'd like to have control over what the characters do. I think as an actor, you get a little too caught up in the moment-to-moment, beat-to-beat stuff to have perspective.

There are so many examples of talented actors working today, no matter how they live their private lives. I'm lucky that people believe me when I'm in character.