The journey matters as much as the destination. By engaging in the moment on set, I’ve stopped rushing and now find pleasure in the collaborative process – the characters, the costumes – rather than worrying about the finished product.
I don’t try to make actors play crazy characters. I like where there’s a certain element of who they are and truth to their performances.
The world that we’ve created – of ‘Riverdale,’ and of this town, and of these characters – are so vastly developed. And we’re diving so deep into them that fans are just really gonna die for it.
My goal is to broaden and deepen the range of African-American characters on television, so I always try to show human beings.
Among adults, we can admit that of course, characters are creations. They aren’t real people.
I would do ‘Superbad,’ and the next offers you would get would all be crazy cop characters or crazy security guards or something.
The world is full of people with different characters and temperaments. We all have a dark side, a tendency to manipulate, and aggressive desires. The most dangerous types are those who repress their desires or deny the existence of them, often acting them out in the most underhanded ways.
It’s kind of ironic that the two sports with the greatest characters, boxing and horse racing, have both been on the decline. In both cases it’s for the lack of a suitable hero.
Shortkut… ‘ has a very nice, strong story. It is not one of those nonsensical comedies where characters attempt buffoonery to get laughs. It is a small film with a big heart.
A little light on the RPG elements but heavy on action, ‘Mass Effect 2’ was the game that created a world of characters that I actually cared about. When it came down to making those tough decisions during the final mission, I actually had to put the controller down and think about my choices.
I’m not a huge TV person, but when I do watch, it’s always after the fact because I like to binge watch. It’s more entertaining for me to watch these characters fresh, after one episode, instead of waiting a whole week.
High aims form high characters, and great objects bring out great minds.
When the characters are really alive before their author, the latter does nothing but follow them in their action, in their words, in the situations which they suggest to him.
I’m a mixed race lad from Liverpool. I get to play a lot of hard characters, and some people perceive that’s what I’m like, but it’s great for me ‘cos they’re always the most interesting characters.
I like to play a wide range of characters. The more they’re unlike me, the better I like it.
If I don’t fall in love with my characters, I cannot shoot.
What comes easiest for me is dialogue. Sometimes when my characters are speaking to me, I have to slow them down so that I’m not simply taking dictation.
I think the success of the Marvel films comes from the fact that they’re made by fans. They really love those characters. When I first came out dressed as Vision, Kevin Feige nearly cried.
I like characters. I like spirited characters whether they exist in fiction or real life. Whether they’re the invention of artistic people or directors, musicians. I think music and art and fashion designers inspire me and I like characters.
I am a tremendous ‘Star Wars’ fan; I know the story means an enormous love to me. I love the characters.
In writing a series of stories about the same characters, plan the whole series in advance in some detail, to avoid contradictions and inconsistencies.
What’s the difference between Hollywood characters and my characters? Mine are real.
I don’t like characters that are left being jerks at the end of the movie.
There’s something strange about theater. My characters consistently demonize elitism, but of course it’s taking place in a theater where only so many people can see it. I’ve been in silly popcorn movies – the kind of thing that as an actor you might feel embarrassed about – but those movies reach many more people.
I never try to give a message in my books. It’s about living with characters long enough to hear their voices and let them tell me the story. Sometimes I would love to have a happy ending, and it doesn’t happen because the character or the story leads me in another direction.
I just love real characters; they’re not pretentious, and every emotion is on the surface, they’re regular working people. Their likes, their dislikes, their loves, their hates, their passions; they’re all right there on the surface.
The truest characters of ignorance are vanity and pride and arrogance.
You can be interested in a Jane Smiley novel whether or not anyone says a word. She enters into her characters’ thoughts with great understanding and depth.
All of the characters in my films, they share one commonality. It doesn’t matter whether they are good or bad, it doesn’t matter whether they are smart or stupid, these characters all take responsibility for their own behavior. I’m much the same.
Truth is not exciting enough to those who depend on the characters and lives of their neighbors for all their amusement.
Creating characters is just another way to express a type and put that type to use.
I always wanted to play characters, and that was definitely one – a Russian spy.
Having portrayed English-speaking Indian characters in British and American projects, I have always wanted to use my mother tongue in an Indian film.
You treat characters like people you meet in life-friends or mentors.
The whole point of having great characters is the opportunity to explore them more deeply with time, re-interpreting them for each new age.
I think writers should create characters who are human and have a character arc of their own.
I’m playing my first urban character in ‘Thirudan Police.’ It’s an important film because I’ll be breaking the stereotype that I’m only fit for rural characters with this role.
I was always cutting dialogue out when we were rehearsing, and when I produced movies, too. I felt that people don’t say things in life – they act, they do things. I always wanted my characters doing, rather than saying what they were doing – which was redundant.
If you don’t have obsessions, don’t write. my characters are obsessed.
People say they love the characters I’ve chosen in my career. But I didn’t choose anything. I just happened to be working and these were offered to me.
I loved ‘WWF No Mercy’ for the Nintendo 64. One of my favorites games was ‘WCW Thunder.’ I loved playing that game, and I loved being The Steiner Brothers. They were so cool, and they were some of the most powerful characters.
I have a strong personality – I know who I’m outside my work, and I’m nothing like the characters I portray.
I do not use profanity in my novels. My characters all go to church.
I’ve always played characters that were younger than myself.
A lot of the characters I gravitate towards feel like outsiders.
Basically the children who watch it just see the little characters they love, and so they’re not discerning about whether it looks great or it’s a great story or anything.
Normally, I name my characters after famous comedians.
Once, Naseeruddin Shah told me that the wafer shop was the best acting school that I could have attended. And I completely agree. I observed every customer very minutely and picked up some quirk or the other. Later, I used those experiences while playing different characters.
I don’t design stories to fit some political ideology. I design stories about characters who I love and care about, while trying to make sense of an increasingly mad and toxic and insane world.
A lot of queer characters get painted with either a caricature brush, or they’re used to teach, in a way.
You read about somebody, and it doesn’t really matter whether or not they really exist – the point is that you get into them like real characters.
In horror, character development is often pushed aside in favor of the shock value. The best genre movies to me are movies like The Shining. You had a connection to the characters in that film.
I always shoot my movies with score as certainly part of the dialogue. Music is dialogue. People don’t think about it that way, but music is actually dialogue. And sometimes music is the final, finished, additional dialogue. Music can be one of the final characters in the film.
I always try to make my characters people, and yet I always want to entertain.
Man, ‘Hill Street Blues’ was on when I was 12, and I remember feeling I’d never seen anything like it. It was that far ahead of its time, with dark characters you loved.
My favourite genre lies inside myself, and as I follow my favourite stories, characters and images, it sums up to a certain genre. So at times even I have to try to guess which genre a film will be after I’ve made it.
Action-adventure, that genre, only works for me if you can care about the characters. If the hero’s not taking some kind of a journey, then there are no stakes – and no stakes, then you don’t care if he lives or dies, wins or loses.
You don’t want to have a character say what’s bothering him; you want to define characters by action.
But the West of the old times, with its strong characters, its stern battles and its tremendous stretches of loneliness, can never be blotted from my mind.
