‘Pyaar Ka Punchnama’ is a universal concept. You can use different set of characters and put them in a situation like this again and again.
The main thing that I learned from editing is that most people, when they’re making a film, they start too early into the story. They will try to set up the characters, they will try to establish things before the plot actually starts.
This is a work of fiction. All the characters in it, human and otherwise, are imaginary, excepting only certain of the fairy folk, whom it might be unwise to offend by casting doubts on their existence. Or lack thereof.
I think I relate to all the characters in one way or another. I’m a chameleon like that.
One of those things that I like about TV is that if you get a group of people you like, you can work with these people for months at a time, and you can discover their strengths and weaknesses, and you can use those in the direction where you take the characters.
The scariest thing about reality TV is having all new characters that you have to be introduced to.
It’s not easy trying to get into the psyche and behaviour patterns, which are far removed from one’s own personality. Some intense characters linger long after it’s over on screen.
I had a very happy childhood, but I wasn’t that happy a child. I liked being alone and creating characters and voices. I think that’s when your creativity is developed, when you’re young. I liked the world of the imagination because it was an easy place to go to.
The joy of tasting different cultures is it gives you a broad perspective, and you don’t judge people from stereotypical characters you see in films.
Every man has three characters – that which he exhibits, that which he has, and that which he thinks he has.
Teenagers, especially girl ones, seem like the perfect canary-in-the-coal-mine characters to me. They capture American culture and its perversion, its hypocrisy – how absorbed we are with youth and beauty and sexualized imagery, for instance, while preaching abstinence and modesty.
I express things through characters because I have a fear that my own voice is irritating because that’s been said to me.
I have been fortunate to have worked with immensely talented writers and directors who have had faith in me. There’s been very little hard work but a lot of learning. I have learnt from each of my characters, and I think that’s rather amazing.
Brad Pitt has something about him to where he’s played different characters in all his movies, and every single time after he’s done, I want to be him.
Having to think so much about fictitious relationships that work or don’t work, and with each relationship between characters managing to do one or other of those in its own peculiar way, I spend a lot of time thinking about relationships, real and imagined.
It’s always the great thing about being involved in such a legacy series such as ‘Star Trek’ is you’ll always want to know more about the characters that you love.
I have songs that define characters from each film of mine. It can be a song from that particular film or something that just goes with the wavelength of the film; you listen to it, and it gives you that rhythm. I can’t articulate how it helps, but it somehow gives you an understanding of the character.
I write easily, let’s put it that way. And in a novel particularly, the characters take over. And they tell me what to say and they tell me what they’re doing. And I’m a third of the way into a novel and then I just let the characters finish it for me.
This was more of a cartoonish thing for me and it kind of took me back to SCTV, in a way, where the characters are just a little broader and you can have that kind of fun going a little over the edge.
I like to push characters to extremes so they have to make really tough decisions and there is no life more extreme than that of an athlete.
I would love to do an action film. In college, I have played a lot of aggressive characters.
When I wrote ‘We Can Be Heroes,’ I was just so excited about the concept of playing loads of characters, and a television series allows you to do that.
There are stories to be told that are still untold and characters to be portrayed that haven’t been portrayed correctly. So there’s work to be done.
Sarah Corvus in ‘Bionic Woman’ was one of my favorite characters I’ve ever played, ever, for reasons that are very similar to Nikki in ‘Sexy Evil Genius.’ I felt that that show was taken away from me too soon, and I really wanted to dive back into that mind frame again.
Nice people with common sense do not make interesting characters. They only make good former spouses.
Since I think I am very boring in normal life, I tend to hide behind all these exciting characters, making people believe that I am someone else entirely. That feeling is very powerful.
The pleasure of writing fiction is that you are always spotting some new approach, an alternative way of telling a story and manipulating characters; the novel is such a wonderfully flexible form.
Playing the good guy is boring. I love twisted, flawed characters.
Normally, when you’re working on something, there are other characters that you have alliances with, and you have unified goals with some characters.
Allison Janney’s character in ‘The West Wing’ was so rocking! I am a huge fan of Mary Louis Parker and her character in ‘Weeds.’ My manager says, ‘you have to grow into yourself, Allison’ because all the characters I want to play are, like, 39.
I started doing standup when I was in college, and I would incorporate a lot of characters into my act.
I’ve always preferred writing about grey characters and human characters. Whether they are giants or elves or dwarves, or whatever they are, they’re still human, and the human heart is still in conflict with the self.
Star Trek characters never go shopping.
Well, I don’t think I’ve ever been a huge target for the press, and I value that to a degree, because there’s a certain value for actors staying beneath the radar so they can play characters.
I like characters who have strong facades and then have secrets. They have cracks.
When I wrote ‘East,’ I wanted a completely earthy, very sexy, very violent play, so I wrote in verse. I found it not only satisfying but releasing. It gave me an opportunity to play with language. We never played the characters like the yobs that they are, but rather in a slightly heightened way.
One of my favourite kinds of movie is the American picaresque, in which the characters make their way across the country, learning about life against the gorgeous backdrops of that vast land.
Since Mahadev’ ended, I was waiting to play more larger than life characters.
I discovered ‘The Shield’ back around 2010, when the Archie superheroes were licensed to DC Comics. From there, I went back into the archives and discovered this whole universe of characters, and I was hooked.
Twitter is the ultimate service for the mobile age – its simplification and constraint of the publishing medium to 140 characters is perfectly complementary to a mobile experience. People still need longer stuff, but they see the headline on Twitter or Facebook.
It’s really about, oh come on, this guy wouldn’t say that or he wouldn’t do that, you know, it’s about the characters, about the story, about the situation.
You always take a little bit back with you at the end of the day. I always put a little bit of myself into the characters, too. You find parallels, points of connection, things like that. But I’m not an actor who gets so incredibly haunted by my characters that I can’t come back.
Special effects are characters. Special effects are essential elements. Just because you can’t see them doesn’t mean they aren’t there.
I like involved projects. I’m driven by the idea of characters and the song-cycle form is similar to a musical.
Let them cant about decorum, Who have characters to lose!
I am ready to go super bold. I would like to thank not just my husband but even my in-laws, who have had no problems with my bold characters. You may find it surprising that we all discuss my scripts on the dining table.
I think as an actor you have to be open to your emotions – that’s how you tap into other characters. Besides, by being so open I’ve come to terms with how screwed I am!
Ever since I was really little, I’ve had characters that were in my mind.
When I’m writing a novel, I’m dealing with a double life. I live in the present at the same time that I live in the past with my characters. It is this that makes a novelist so eccentric and unpleasant.
A lot of my work has to do with not allowing my characters to have an ego in a way that the stomach doesn’t have an ego when it’s wanting to throw up. It just does it.
Wealth stays with us a little moment if at all: only our characters are steadfast, not our gold.
I just want the opportunity to continue to do great films, play great characters and work with great people.
And also, there’s a reason why gay characters are so interesting. Because much like the women in Bridgerton,’ there are a lot of hurdles and there’s a lot of self-growth, and there’s a real strength to gay men.
There was a lot of fiction I did not enjoy, whose landscapes seemed bland and unevocative, the characters faint-hearted within them, the very words lacking vibrancy.
