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Contemporary audiences are interested in watching characters navigate ethical challenges and moral dilemmas.
David Zabel
Challenges
Dilemmas
Characters
Moral
Contemporary
Audiences
Interested
Ethical
Navigate
Watching
The real trick to these movies and making the big action sequences work - and I've forgotten this sometimes and screwed it up - the characters really have to be humanized. Because you can have the greatest special effects in the world, but if you don't care about the people in those effects, there's no impact.
Dean Devlin
Work
You
People
World
Sometimes
Care
Big
Action
Those
Characters
Trick
Impact
About
Because
Greatest
Making
Real
Up
Effects
dont Care
Forgotten
Screwed
Movies
Really
Special
Special Effects
I like acting. I really like acting. The career, it can keep you interested. With 'Entourage,' the characters are living a lifestyle that is kind of troubling. But the challenge is to make Shauna a person.
Debi Mazar
You
Challenge
Living
Characters
Kind
Entourage
Lifestyle
Troubling
Like
Make
Person
Interested
Really
Acting
Keep
Career
Doing makeup was a way to create characters, only I got tired of doing it for other people.
Debi Mazar
Tired
People
Other
Way
Characters
Only
Makeup
Got
Doing
Create
I think it's fun to play with worlds that you can add a lot of your own imagination to. With 'True Blood,' you're not limited by anything, there are just leaps and bounds of the imagination you can take with these characters.
Deborah Ann Woll
You
Own
Think
Imagination
Add
Worlds
Characters
Take
True
True Blood
Bounds
Leaps
Limited
Lot
Blood
Just
Anything
Your
Fun
Play
I couldn't resist hiding some historical details and a few clues relevant to the plot and characters of 'A Discovery of Witches' throughout the pages of the novel.
Deborah Harkness
Few
Relevant
Hiding
Plot
Characters
Details
Some
Throughout
Witches
Discovery
Historical
Clues
Pages
Novel
Resist
Don't start writing your novel until you know your characters very, very well. What they'd do if they saw somebody shoplifting. What they were like at school. What shoes they wear. Spend days - weeks, months - being them until they thicken up and start to breathe.
Deborah Moggach
You
Writing
School
Somebody
Shoes
Spend
Saw
Months
Characters
Wear
Weeks
Days
Like
Know
Until
Well
Were
Up
Very
Being
Them
Breathe
Your
Novel
Start
Writing a novel is a huge adventure; when it's going well it's more fun than fun. When it stutters to a halt put it aside. Go for a swim, go for a walk, take a week off. Don't panic or be afraid; you and your characters are in it together. Trust them to come to your rescue.
Deborah Moggach
You
Together
Trust
Writing
Walk
Panic
Characters
More
Week
Take
Put
Adventure
Come
Well
Halt
Go
Off
Huge
Than
Going
Afraid
Them
Aside
Your
Rescue
Fun
Swim
Novel
Creatively, I just like interesting characters. So straight, gay, or whatever - like, whatever, wherever the characters are coming from or their lifestyle.
Dee Rees
Gay
Whatever
Characters
Lifestyle
Like
Coming
Just
Wherever
Interesting
Interesting Characters
Straight
Creatively
I'm interested in telling stories about characters that are interesting and who are challenging in some way, one that will make you think about them afterwards.
Dee Rees
You
Will
Think
Way
Characters
Telling
Some
About
Make
Stories
Afterwards
Interested
Interesting
Them
Who
Challenging
I just want to tell stories that are meaningful and have inspiration to them; people can watch it and take away something, or maybe they'll just think about themselves differently or think about the world differently. I just want to create characters that live on.
Dee Rees
People
World
Live
Think
Tell
Characters
About
Something
Inspiration
Take
Maybe
Just
Want
Stories
Them
Meaningful
Themselves
Create
Away
Differently
Watch
I'm interested in characters and relationships.
Dee Rees
Relationships
Characters
Interested
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.
Denis Leary
Work
Time
You
People
Group
Months
Those
Characters
TV
Weaknesses
About
Direction
Take
Like
Discover
Get
Where
Use
Things
Strengths
The cult of celebrity turned me off, and when the opportunities came along for me to play different characters, that's what I went for rather than the safe choices.
Dennis Christopher
Me
Opportunities
Characters
Rather
Along
Safe
Came
Cult
Off
Celebrity
Than
Different
Different Characters
Turned
Choices
Play
There are always leading characters. There are always complex characters; there are very rewarding plays with great directors and tremendous playwrights, yeah. I've done a lot of things with theater that I'm very, very proud of.
Dennis Christopher
Great
Playwrights
Tremendous
Complex
Characters
Directors
Leading
Always
Proud
Yeah
Lot
Very
Done
Rewarding
Theater
Things
Plays
Changes have taken place since year one. When Caruso left, that was a big change. We've been able to adapt nicely. It's given us new opportunities for different characters and story lines.
Dennis Franz
Change
Opportunities
Big
Year
Changes
Characters
Able
Given
Taken
Since
New
Big Change
Been
Lines
New Opportunities
Left
Different
Story
Different Characters
Place
Story Lines
Us
Nicely
Adapt
I would love a combination of action/adventure and... love. And stories told with heart. I would like people to be invigorated as well as moved. People to see the movie and see that. I love to play, y'know, well-rounded characters.
Dennis Haysbert
Love
Heart
People
Characters
Would
See
Combination
Like
Well
Well-Rounded
Moved
Movie
Stories
Play
There are always different roles and questions to be asked about certain characters.
Dennis Haysbert
Characters
About
Always
Questions
Roles
Different
Asked
Certain
Different Roles
There was a time in my early 20s when I would leave a movie theater and just feel so alone and lonely afterwards. I just felt like my life was nothing like those characters up on the screen, so perfect all the time. Why didn't I talk like that? Why don't I look like that?
Derek Cianfrance
Life
Alone
Time
Lonely
My Life
Nothing
Those
Characters
Would
Perfect
Feel
Like
Look
Talk
Felt
Leave
Up
Just
Screen
Movie
Afterwards
Theater
Movie Theater
Why
Early
Early 20s
Making a film is like making a mixtape. You're collecting all this stuff and putting your favorite stuff into it: you have actors that you like, characters that you're interested in, moments you want to explore, themes you want to deal with, music that you want to put in. It's a pastiche of all these things that deal with how you see the world.
Derek Cianfrance
Music
You
World
Favorite
Characters
Collecting
See
Put
Putting
Stuff
Like
Deal
How
Making
Want
Interested
Themes
Explore
Your
Moments
Film
Actor
Things
When I was asked to compose a score for... 'Palo Alto,' I first thought to myself, 'What is the house that these characters would want to live in?' I wanted to paint a picture and color scheme that I could work around. I gently apply different daubs to see what fits to match the color I have in mind with these characters.
Dev Hynes
Work
Myself
Mind
Thought
First
Picture
Live
Characters
Would
Compose
See
Color
Could
Scheme
House
Alto
Around
Match
Gently
Score
Fits
Different
Want
Wanted
Asked
Paint
Apply
Apart from 'VIP' being a blockbuster movie, the various characters such as mine, the Luna bike I use in the movie, the lovable amma and appa, a pet dog named Harry Potter, the innocent brother, etc., had a huge reach among the audiences.
Dhanush
Dog
Pet
Innocent
Mine
Harry
Harry Potter
Characters
Brother
Various
Potter
Had
Named
Reach
Audiences
Blockbuster
Huge
Lovable
Being
Movie
Etc
Apart
Bike
Use
Among
VIP
I've always known that I'm very, very ordinary looking. But I'm not alien looking. I am an artist here to play characters.
Dhanush
Alien
Looking
Characters
Known
Always
Am
Very
Artist
Ordinary
Play
Here
If you're writing something that's clearly labelled as an alternative history, of course it's perfectly legitimate to play with known historical characters and events, but less so when you're writing an essentially straight historical fiction.
Diana Gabaldon
History
You
Writing
Events
Characters
Something
Perfectly
Clearly
Known
Alternative
Course
Historical
Historical Fiction
Labelled
Essentially
Legitimate
Fiction
Straight
Less
Play
I think characters are going to be, if not a reflection of the author, at least some refraction of some part of their personality.
Diana Gabaldon
Personality
Reflection
Think
Characters
Some
Part
Least
Author
Going
At the end of the day, I write characters that I want to play, because I just think, 'Hey, maybe one day it'll get made.'
Diana Silvers
Day
End Of The Day
Made
Think
Hey
One Day
Characters
Write
Because
End
Get
Maybe
Just
Want
Play
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