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The heart and soul of network programming is series programming, the weekly repetition of characters you like having in your house.
Dick Wolf
You
Soul
Heart
Programming
Characters
Having
Network
Weekly
Like
House
Heart And Soul
Repetition
Your
Series
One of the defining things about my career on camera is I like to play different characters. That gets difficult to do. People don't trust you to do something different. In animation, it's all about trust and how far can you go away from yourself. It's a really marvelous environment that's extremely creative.
Diedrich Bader
You
Creative
Trust
Yourself
People
Go Away
Difficult
Extremely
Defining
Characters
About
Something
Marvelous
Animation
Environment
Like
How
How Far
Go
Camera
Gets
Different
Different Characters
Far
Really
Away
Play
Things
Career
Working on a sitcom and improv improves your comedic chops. If you do it long enough, the one thing you learn to do is listen to the other characters.
Diedrich Bader
You
Long
Other
Enough
Characters
One Thing
Comedic
Learn
Improv
Sitcom
Improves
Listen
The One Thing
Working
Your
Chops
Thing
Even if there was an opportunity to school yourself in different characters - characters that have distinct personalities which may be totally different from yours, you have got to completely divorce your own personality to be able to go over to the other personality.
Dilip Kumar
You
Yourself
Personality
School
Opportunity
Own
Other
Distinct
Characters
Able
Totally
Divorce
Over
Got
Go
May
Different
Different Characters
Which
Personalities
Your
Yours
Even
I think I have so much more to accomplish in this world of acting. There are many different types of characters I want to play. I want to keep making people laugh, and I want to explore dramatic roles as well.
Dilshad Vadsaria
People
World
Think
Dramatic
Types
Laugh
Characters
More
Well
Making
Accomplish
Roles
Different
Want
Much
Explore
Acting
Many
Different Types
Keep
Play
As for most writers, language is vital for me: a writer's ability to render a fictional world - characters, landscape, emotions - into something original that alters or deepens my understanding of both literature and life.
Dinaw Mengestu
Life
Me
Emotions
World
Language
Understanding
Characters
Ability
Vital
Something
Both
Writer
Writers
Most
Render
Fictional
Literature
Landscape
Original
Commercials are 20 seconds long, so you don't get to experiment with your characters. But in films, you get to try out your acting skills.
Disha Patani
You
Try
Long
Experiment
Films
Seconds
Out
Characters
Commercials
Get
Skills
Acting
Your
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.
Don Bluth
Love
Great
Characters
See
About
Great Story
Discerning
Looks
Just
Children
Anything
Story
Whether
Little
Who
Watch
Basically
We're always trailing, as far as the amount of roles that are written for us and the films that are being made that have black characters in them. I don't know if that's going to change.
Don Cheadle
Change
Black
Made
Films
Characters
Written
Know
Always
Trailing
Roles
Going
Being
As Far As
Them
Far
Us
Amount
The process changes slightly from role to role. Obviously, there are different things you're called on to do. You're not digging deep for Basher Tarr like I was for Paul Rusesabagina, but at the end of the day it's still all make-believe and you still are trying as realistically as you can to depict these characters.
Don Cheadle
Day
You
End Of The Day
Changes
Digging
Slightly
Characters
Like
Obviously
Make-Believe
Still
End
Role
Trying
Depict
Different
Process
Realistically
Paul
Deep
Different Things
Things
I start with the story, almost in the old campfire sense, and the story leads to both the characters, which actors should best be cast in this story, and the language. The choice of words, more than anything else, creates the feeling that the story gives off.
Donald E. Westlake
Best
Words
Old
Language
Feeling
Sense
Else
Characters
More
Cast
Gives
Both
More Than Anything
Almost
Leads
Off
Campfire
Than
Anything
Anything Else
Story
Which
Choice
Creates
Should
Actor
Start
The events of the Civil War are so odd, ferocious, and poignant that fictional characters do well simply to inhabit them.
Donald McCaig
War
Events
Characters
Civil
Civil War
Poignant
Simply
Well
Odd
Ferocious
Fictional
Them
Inhabit
I sort of like writing about weird characters, I guess.
Donald Ray Pollock
Writing
Guess
Characters
About
Weird
Like
Sort
I love the tradition of Dickens, where even the most minor walk-on characters are twitching and particular and alive.
Donna Tartt
Love
Alive
Characters
Minor
Particular
Most
Tradition
Dickens
Where
Even
Twitching
The Little Friend is a long book. It's also completely different from my first novel: different landscape, different characters, different use of language and diction, different approach to story.
Donna Tartt
Book
Language
Long
First
Approach
Characters
Also
Friend
Diction
Different
Different Approach
Story
Different Characters
Little
Landscape
Use
Novel
I try to ground most of my characters in reality somehow. That's kind of what I bring to the table.
Donnie Wahlberg
Reality
Try
Characters
Kind
Table
Somehow
Most
Ground
Bring
I can always see something of myself in the characters I play.
Donnie Wahlberg
Myself
Characters
See
Something
Always
Play
I think a lot of times stereotypes come when there are disconnected white writers who maybe have two or three black friends, and they write black characters, and they put them in situations that are ridiculous.
Dorian Missick
Black
Three
White
Think
Characters
Write
Writers
Put
Stereotypes
Come
Disconnected
Lot
Friends
Times
Situations
Maybe
Them
Who
Ridiculous
Two
I don't think that the feminist movement has done much for the characters of women.
Doris Lessing
Women
Think
Characters
Feminist
Done
Movement
Much
I usually don't find myself reacting to my characters. I just create them ... And let the audience decide whether they're empathetic or scared or compelled to cheer me on.
Doug Hutchison
Myself
Me
Characters
Find
Scared
Empathetic
Cheer
Reacting
Audience
Just
Decide
Whether
Them
Create
Compelled
To me I don't deal with stress well at all, and it is stressful enough for me to deal with my own one character. So if I had to deal with all the characters and the special effects, and the editing and make the writing tweaks and do everything the director does, that would drive me to an early grave, and I just can't do it.
Doug Jones
Character
Me
Director
Writing
Editing
Stress
Drive
Own
Enough
Everything
Characters
Would
My Own
Had
Well
Make
Deal
Does
Effects
Just
Special
Special Effects
Grave
Early
Stressful
Somehow super power and hero are so synonymous that they get combined into one word, 'superhero,' whereas I'm kind of more interested in separating those two ideas out. You have characters with super powers who may or may not be heroic, because human beings aren't all heroic. I tend to be drawn to antiheros.
Doug Liman
You
Word
Hero
Power
Heroic
Synonymous
Those
Drawn
Out
Characters
Kind
One Word
Super
Superhero
Somehow
More
Tend
Combined
Ideas
Powers
Because
Get
May
Human
Whereas
Human Beings
Interested
Separating
Who
Beings
Two
'Mr. and Mrs. Smith' - every scene is from those characters' point of view. They're in literally every scene, very unusual in a big studio film.
Doug Liman
Big
Every
Those
Characters
Scene
Point
Point Of View
Studio
Smith
Unusual
Very
Literally
View
Film
So many of Spielberg's films inspired my imagination growing up. And then there are British films like 'The Full Monty' and 'Waking Ned Devine' that took me to places I really loved, with characters I just thought were amazing. But the films of Luc Besson showed me France - a really cool side of France.
Doug Liman
Me
Amazing
Thought
Imagination
Films
Side
Took
France
Monty
Characters
Spielberg
Inspired
Like
Were
Up
Waking
Just
Loved
Places
Then
Really
Full
Cool
Many
Growing
Growing Up
British
Romeo and Juliet were stunning and beautiful, but a lot of the other characters surrounding them were caricatures.
Douglas Booth
Beautiful
Other
Caricatures
Characters
Stunning
Were
Lot
Juliet
Surrounding
Romeo
Romeo And Juliet
Them
On 'Sons of Anarchy', Wendy and Nero are the only characters who really don't have an agenda that has to do with anything but their love for their children, their love for their mates, their love for their friends.
Drea De Matteo
Love
Anarchy
Characters
Only
Sons
Mates
Friends
Children
Anything
Agenda
Really
Who
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