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'Chewing Gum' is a sitcom set on an estate in east London. Its central character is a girl from a Pentecostal background who decides to embark on a more worldly lifestyle - it's about adolescence 10 years too late. In my dreams, everybody is watching it, finding out about my world and realising it's not what they imagined. That it's not terrifying.
Michaela Coel
Dreams
Character
Too Late
World
Girl
Too
Worldly
Everybody
Late
Background
Embark
East
Out
Finding
Gum
Pentecostal
London
About
Adolescence
More
Lifestyle
Terrifying
Years
Chewing
Chewing Gum
Sitcom
Estate
Decide
Central
Realising
Who
Watching
Set
Imagined
I tend to think that good and evil exist and that the quantity in each of us is unchangeable. The moral character of people is set, fixed until death.
Michel Houellebecq
Death
Good
Character
Good And Evil
People
Evil
Think
Moral
Moral Character
Unchangeable
Tend
Until
Quantity
Exist
Fixed
Us
Each
Set
I put myself into character for my songs.
Michelle Branch
Myself
Character
Songs
Put
It is impossible to watch a 'Friends' episode too many times. Phoebe is my favourite character. I used to play her songs on the guitar when I was a teenager. 'Smelly Cat' is very easy. It's only about three chords.
Michelle Dockery
Character
Guitar
Impossible
Three
Too
Teenager
Easy
Favourite
About
Only
Cat
Songs
Smelly
Friends
Very
Times
Episode
Used
Many
Chords
Play
Her
Watch
I'd never really considered doing young-adult novels, but one of the things that a friend pointed out to me is that I've actually had a teenage character in almost every adult novel that I've written.
Michelle Gagnon
Character
Me
Every
Teenage
Considered
Out
One Of The Things
Pointed
Adult
Never
Had
Written
Almost
Doing
Friend
Really
Novel
Novels
Actually
Things
Every character a writer creates has some of themselves in it somewhere.
Michelle MacLaren
Character
Somewhere
Every
Some
Writer
Themselves
Creates
Doing field trips rather than simply researching online allows me to experience the story from the point of view of my main character; you can't get that by sitting at a desk.
Michelle Paver
Character
Me
You
Experience
Field
Trips
Online
Rather
Point
Point Of View
Main
Main Character
Simply
Doing
Than
Get
Sitting
Story
View
Researching
Desk
The sexy moments for me, I wasn't thinking of them as sexy. I was thinking of them as more specific to my character. So it was necessary for my character's development in the movie, so that's how I played it.
Michelle Trachtenberg
Character
Me
Thinking
Sexy
More
Development
How
Movie
Them
Moments
Specific
Played
Necessary
It's very important that I'm approaching a character that I've either not played before, or I can give it a different take.
Michelle Yeoh
Character
Approaching
Important
Before
Give
Take
Very
Different
Either
Played
What's always intriguing to me is transforming my subjects into a character from another era.
Mickalene Thomas
Character
Me
Intriguing
Another
Always
Era
Subjects
Transforming
As a heel, you get to make twists and turns that really sell that character so that you can get that genuine kind of heat from people that want to hate you.
Mickie James
Character
You
Hate
People
Kind
Make
Genuine
Sell
Get
Heat
Want
Heel
Really
Turns
Twists
I'm not one of those people who writes a biography or tries to figure out what kind of ice cream the character liked when he was 10.
Miguel Ferrer
Character
People
Those
Out
Kind
Tries
Writes
He
Liked
Ice
Ice Cream
Cream
Figure
Who
Biography
If I had been born with an aggressive character, then maybe my palmares would have been longer.
Miguel Indurain
Character
Aggressive
Would
Born
Had
Longer
Been
Maybe
Then
The most difficult character in comedy is that of the fool, and he must be no simpleton that plays that part.
Miguel de Cervantes
Character
Fool
Comedy
Difficult
Must
He
Part
Most
Plays
I loved playing Jackie on 'Happy Endings.' It was really exciting to be in the pilot and then be able to come back. Her character was so much fun!
Mikaela Hoover
Character
Happy
Pilot
Back
Able
Exciting
Come
Jackie
Endings
So Much Fun
Loved
Loved Playing
Then
Much
Really
Fun
Her
Playing
Books are a little better movies than just screenplays because there's more fat on the bone. There's more character development. There's more stuff to pick from.
Mike Binder
Character
Better
Bone
Books
Character Development
More
Pick
Development
Stuff
Because
Than
Just
Screenplays
Little
Movies
Fat
I'm always game for creating a new character, and I liked the idea of putting something new into the 'Halo' universe.
Mike Colter
Character
Game
Universe
Something
Something New
Putting
Idea
New
Liked
Always
Halo
Creating
What I like about my character: Luke Cage is a person first and foremost. We do have other black superheroes, but he's important because he's touchable. Luke has moments when he has to try to forget his pain, but then, unlike the rest of us, he's also able to channel that frustration into fighting bad guys. Real martyrs aren't trying to be martyrs.
Mike Colter
Character
Frustration
Try
Black
Rest
First
Important
Pain
Fighting
Other
Channel
Unlike
Bad
Able
Bad Guys
About
Superheroes
Guys
Martyrs
He
Cage
Like
Also
Because
Real
His
Foremost
Person
Forget
Trying
Then
Us
Moments
Luke
What you don't want is for violence and gore to become more important than character and structure. A lot of slasher movies from the eighties were only focused on violence and gore, which robs the human beings in the story of any empathetic reaction from the audience, and instead makes them cheer for the gore.
Mike Flanagan
Character
You
Important
Become
Focused
Structure
More
Only
Empathetic
Instead
Cheer
Reaction
Gore
Makes
Audience
Were
Lot
Than
Any
Human
Want
Human Beings
Eighties
Story
Which
Movies
Them
Beings
Slasher
Violence
There's nothing scarier than silence. A lot of horror movies lean on hits and score to try and create tension, which actually does the opposite. The best scares come from a desire to see the character overcome what they're dealing with in the scene. If you care about the character you'll care about the scare.
Mike Flanagan
Best
Character
Silence
You
Overcome
Try
Care
Nothing
Scare
See
Scares
About
Horror
Scene
Horror Movies
Tension
Come
Lean
Dealing
Does
Opposite
Score
Lot
Than
Hits
Which
Movies
Create
Actually
Desire
If you ask me, the place that a story happens is as equal character. It's almost like an ecological viewpoint: These people are living in this piece of land, and in this piece of land in this time this is possible. For me, I almost think location first. It's time first - what year is it - then where are we, and then who is in it.
Mike Mills
Time
Character
Me
You
People
First
Year
Living
Think
Location
Possible
Ecological
Almost
Like
Piece
Equal
Where
Happens
Story
Place
Land
Ask
Then
Viewpoint
Who
I love making stuff. There's a joy in having the first molecule of an idea, then testing it in front of audiences at secret shows that people only know about the day before. I videotape those, study them, enjoy being in the character and figuring out the movie.
Mike Myers
Love
Day
Character
People
Joy
First
Before
Enjoy
Secret
Those
Out
About
Having
Only
Study
Idea
Stuff
Know
Making
Audiences
Testing
Front
Being
Movie
Them
Then
Videotape
Molecule
Figuring
Shows
A great thing is happening on cable TV. You see characters change in stories over years, like in Tolstoy. That's a whole, thrilling new form that I really enjoy. They are Tolstoy-an in their endless character development and narrative changes... a show like 'Breaking Bad' is astonishing.
Mike Nichols
Great
Character
You
Change
Enjoy
Changes
Astonishing
Character Development
Characters
TV
Bad
See
Thrilling
Cable
Cable TV
Development
Over
New
Like
Great Thing
Narrative
Years
Endless
Form
Stories
Happening
Breaking
Breaking Bad
Really
Show
Whole
Tolstoy
Thing
Clay Aiken is amazing beyond that glorious voice. Turns out he is an excellent comic actor and a master of character.
Mike Nichols
Character
Amazing
Master
Glorious
Out
Voice
Clay
Excellent
He
Beyond
Comic
Turns
Actor
I listen to them freely and with all the respect merited by their intelligence, their character, their knowledge, reserving always my incontestable right of criticism and censure.
Mikhail Bakunin
Character
Knowledge
Respect
Intelligence
Criticism
Freely
Always
Listen
Censure
Them
Right
You want to be honest with a character and play it truthfully, and you want to be genuine with your character.
Mila Kunis
Character
You
To Be Honest
Genuine
Truthfully
Want
Your
Play
Honest
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