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People barely have anything to say in 140 characters. The last thing we need is a bunch of discursive rambling on Twitter.
Carrie Brownstein
People
Twitter
Say
Characters
Bunch
Anything
Barely
Thing
Last
Need
Kellie Overbey gave me this play called 'Girl Talk.' I read it and totally fell in love with the characters. I told her she had to let me direct it and put Marcia DeBonis in it.
Carrie Preston
Love
Me
Girl
Gave
Characters
Totally
Direct
Had
Put
Fell
Talk
She
Read
Play
Her
Back in 2004, Kellie Overbey handed me her play 'Girl Talk' to read. I fell in love with her brutally delicious humor and the fearlessly deft way in which she drew her characters. They jumped off the page and begged me to give them a space in which to stomp around.
Carrie Preston
Love
Me
Space
Humor
Girl
Back
Way
Characters
Fearlessly
Drew
Give
Delicious
Brutally
Fell
Talk
She
Read
Around
Off
Handed
Stomp
Which
Them
Page
Play
Her
I really like to play these complicated characters, and I really like to transform.
Carrie Preston
Complicated
Characters
Like
Transform
Really
Play
I like characters that make choices and try to drive their own fate.
Cary Fukunaga
Fate
Try
Drive
Own
Characters
Like
Make
Choices
As a viewer, I care about people, I care about characters, I care about perspective.
Casey Neistat
People
Perspective
Care
Characters
About
Viewer
Creating characters is like throwing together ingredients for a recipe. I take characteristics I like and dislike in real people I know, or know of, and use them to embellish and define characters.
Cassandra Clare
Together
People
Recipe
Define
Characteristics
Characters
Embellish
Take
Throwing
Like
Know
Real
Real People
Dislike
Them
Ingredients
Creating
Use
In other people's books, I tend to love the really daredevil-y characters. I love Finnick from 'The Hunger Games.' And I think, probably, my favorite character of all time is Sherlock Holmes.
Cassandra Clare
Love
Time
Character
People
Think
Other
Books
Hunger
Hunger Games
Favorite
Characters
All-Time
Tend
Sherlock
Sherlock Holmes
To Love
Holmes
Really
Games
I have specific playlists for different books and characters. So, I need to have those with me. It helps me get into the mindset of the book.
Cassandra Clare
Me
Book
Books
Mindset
Those
Characters
Get
Different
Helps
Specific
Need
I think that 'City of Heavenly Fire' is definitely a book where all the characters are tested to their limits, and they have to make really significant choices about who they are and who they wanna be.
Cassandra Clare
Book
Fire
Think
Definitely
Characters
Significant
City
About
Make
Limits
Tested
Heavenly
Wanna
Where
Really
Choices
Who
I think the main thing to remember when writing a novel is to stay true to the characters.
Cassandra Clare
Writing
Remember
Think
Characters
Stay
Stay True
Main
Remember When
Main Thing
True
Novel
Thing
You put books out into the world, and people form their own visuals and images and attachments to characters; those characters become part of them, and they have their feelings about them.
Cassandra Clare
You
People
World
Feelings
Become
Own
Books
Those
Out
Characters
Visuals
About
Part
Put
Form
Them
Images
I admire directors so much, I find them incredible: they manage such a huge number of people of different characters, think of the money involved.
Catherine Deneuve
People
Money
Think
Incredible
Characters
Find
Admire
Directors
Involved
Huge
Huge Number
Manage
Different
Different Characters
Them
Much
Number
I love acting, and ultimately all my characters are very different, and each character I love in a different way.
Catherine Mary Stewart
Love
Character
Way
Characters
Ultimately
Very
Different
Acting
Each
Different Way
There's no game plan when it comes to thinking up new characters; inspiration can come from anything - from a wig I've seen to an expression I've heard someone use.
Catherine Tate
Game
Seen
Thinking
Wig
Characters
Someone
Inspiration
New
Come
Heard
Up
Anything
Plan
Use
Game Plan
Expression
Robert De Niro taught me how to listen, and how to be part of the conversation. It's not just about reading your lines and saying what's in the script; you have to understand your character, along with the other characters so that you can always respond.
Cathy Moriarty
Saying
Character
Me
You
Conversation
Reading
Other
Respond
Niro
Characters
About
Part
Along
Robert
Robert De Niro
De Niro
Understand
Always
How
Lines
Listen
Just
Taught
Script
Your
I want a character to wake up one day and feel like, 'I can face it'. That, to me, is happy. I want the characters to rescue themselves, though you use the relationships you have, to make you strong enough to be able to do that.
Cecelia Ahern
Day
Character
Me
You
Happy
Strong
Wake Up
Face
Enough
Relationships
One Day
Though
Characters
Able
Feel
Like
Make
Wake
Up
Want
Themselves
Use
Rescue
I always resented books that tried to teach a lesson, where the characters are too good: They don't swear, they tell their mothers everything.
Cecily von Ziegesar
Good
Lesson
Too
Everything
Books
Tell
Characters
Tried
Always
Mothers
Where
Swear
Teach
I went to Colby College in Waterville, ME and did picture it when I was writing 'Cum Laude.' So many of the physical details were included, like the loop where people jogged. The story of the chapel is also borrowed from Colby... but the students and cast of characters are fictional.
Cecily von Ziegesar
Me
People
Writing
College
Picture
Chapel
Characters
Details
Physical
Borrowed
Cast
Students
Like
Also
Loop
Were
Did
Where
Fictional
Story
Many
Included
Even now, I change my style and clothes from one day to the next, but during high school I blended in. I think a lot of people are that way. I guess that's why I can write about an array of characters.
Cecily von Ziegesar
Day
Change
People
School
Style
Clothes
Think
Guess
Way
One Day
Characters
High
High School
About
Write
Blended
Array
Lot
Next
Even
Even Now
Now
Why
My biggest fear in writing 'Gossip Girl' was that the characters would sound like stereotypical rich, air-headed heiresses. These were my friends. They were smart and multifaceted. They had interests and passions. They wanted to become lawyers and doctors and writers and filmmakers.
Cecily von Ziegesar
Writing
Fear
Smart
Gossip
Girl
Doctors
Become
Rich
Characters
Would
Lawyers
Writers
Had
Stereotypical
Like
Gossip Girl
Sound
Were
Passions
Friends
Wanted
Biggest
Interests
Multifaceted
Filmmakers
Let's stop reflexively comparing Chinese writers to Chinese writers, Indian writers to Indian writers, black writers to black writers. Let's focus on the writing itself: the characters, the language, the narrative style.
Celeste Ng
Writing
Language
Focus
Black
Style
Characters
Indian
Writers
Narrative
Itself
Stop
Chinese
Comparing
Filming movies and TV are vastly different. Film is more of slower pace. You usually have more time to develop characters, and it sometimes takes up to 3 months to film one movie. Sometimes you'll spend half the day filming one scene. TV moves much faster. It takes about 10 days to film an episode.
Chad Lindberg
Time
Day
You
Sometimes
Half
Faster
Spend
Months
Characters
TV
Slower
About
More
Scene
Vastly
Develop
Takes
Days
Up
Different
Moves
Movie
Pace
Movies
Much
Episode
Film
Filming
People of African descent, most of us grew up accepting and loving Spider-Man. I still love Spider-Man. I still love the Incredible Hulk. I still have those characters that were white role models, superheroes, heroes - whatever you want to call it. You basically had no choice but to accept those.
Chadwick Boseman
Love
You
People
Heroes
Whatever
White
Incredible
Those
Spider-Man
Characters
No Choice
Superheroes
Had
Most
Call
Accept
Accepting
Still
Were
Up
Role
Role Models
Models
Hulk
African
Want
Grew
Loving
Us
Choice
Descent
Basically
I like ambiguity because you may be the villain in someone else's story and the hero in your own, and I think very often, African-American characters are either one thing or the other. You shouldn't have to be perfectly good or perfectly bad. You don't even have to be magical.
Chadwick Boseman
Good
You
Hero
Own
Think
Other
Else
Characters
Bad
One Thing
Magical
Someone
Perfectly
Like
Because
Ambiguity
Very
May
Often
African-American
Story
Either
Your
Even
Villain
Thing
When you play characters, you shouldn't just be putting on their characteristics - you should be finding it inside yourself.
Chadwick Boseman
You
Yourself
Just Be
Characteristics
Characters
Finding
Inside
Putting
Just
Should
Play
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