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Usually, when you do video games, you don't interact with the other actors. You each record your audio on different days, and you never really meet the other characters.
Eliza Dushku
Video Games
You
Other
Meet
Characters
Record
Never
Days
Audio
Interact
Different
Video
Really
Your
Games
Each
Actor
The only reason ever to make a sequel is to spend more time with the characters that people love: to tell more of their story.
Elizabeth Banks
Love
Time
People
Spend
Tell
Characters
More
Only
Make
Story
Sequel
Reason
Ever
I think the hardcore fans can expect exactly what both 'The Hunger Games' and 'Catching Fire' delivered: 'Mockingjay' is going to be as faithful a rendition of Suzanne's Collins's world and books and characters as we can put out!
Elizabeth Banks
World
Fans
Fire
Faithful
Think
Books
Hunger
Hunger Games
Out
Characters
Exactly
Exactly What
Collins
Both
Delivered
Put
Catching
Rendition
Expect
Going
Games
Hardcore
I look to find the heart and soul of people, of my characters. I look for the truth of them and the truths about life that are presented through them.
Elizabeth Berg
Life
Truth
Soul
Heart
People
Characters
Find
About
Through
Look
Heart And Soul
Truths
Them
Presented
One of the great pleasures in writing 'The Dream Lover' was learning about some of the real people who populated George Sand's life. What a cast of characters! And what a pleasure to recreate them upon the page!
Elizabeth Berg
Life
Great
Learning
People
Writing
Lover
Pleasure
Pleasures
Characters
Dream
Some
About
Cast
Recreate
Real
George
Real People
Them
Sand
Page
Who
As a documentary filmmaker, 'Meru' was an irresistible challenge. You can spend years searching for the right story, but this one had all the elements: the obstacles, the characters, and the drama.
Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi
You
Challenge
Drama
Spend
Characters
Had
Obstacles
Documentary
Years
Irresistible
Story
Searching
Elements
Right
Filmmaker
Often, female characters are quite one dimensional, especially in a two hour film; television gives characters room to breathe and develop.
Elizabeth Debicki
Television
Characters
One-Dimensional
Gives
Develop
Hour
Female
Female Characters
Quite
Often
Room
Breathe
Film
Two
Essentially and most simply put, plot is what the characters do to deal with the situation they are in. It is a logical sequence of events that grow from an initial incident that alters the status quo of the characters.
Elizabeth George
Events
Logical
Situation
Plot
Characters
Status
Status Quo
Put
Simply
Most
Deal
Essentially
Quo
Sequence
Incident
Initial
Grow
When I tell people there are three stories in 'Thunderstruck' that were from the same wrecked novel, they want to guess what they are. Nobody has. There are no characters or timelines in common. They're structured very differently. A good novel wouldn't have pulled apart so easily.
Elizabeth McCracken
Good
People
Three
Guess
Easily
Tell
Characters
Wrecked
Structured
Nobody
Were
Very
Same
Common
Want
Stories
Apart
Novel
Differently
Pulled
In 'Property,' none of the characters are based on any real people, but the house is very much the house that I moved into in Saratoga Springs, N.Y.
Elizabeth McCracken
Property
People
Characters
House
None
Real
Springs
Very
Real People
Any
Moved
Much
Based
I think you have to love the characters that you write. I don't know how you could possibly write a TV show where you didn't love the characters.
Elizabeth Meriwether
Love
You
Think
Characters
TV
Possibly
TV Show
Could
Write
Know
How
Where
To Love
Show
The funniest things just come from honesty. We have a tendency to see female characters as representative of something larger than what they are, when male characters are just characters.
Elizabeth Meriwether
Honesty
Characters
See
Something
Tendency
Come
Female
Female Characters
Male
Than
Representative
Just
Larger
Things
Funniest
Dysfunctional co-dependent relationships always appeal to me. I don't know exactly how it started. I start writing sketches of characters and little scene-lets, and then it builds.
Elizabeth Meriwether
Me
Writing
Relationships
Characters
Exactly
Know
Always
Builds
How
Dysfunctional
Little
Sketches
Then
Appeal
Start
Started
Every day, I learn something new. I think one of the most exciting things for a writer is to work on a TV show. It's like a novel. You have a really long time to develop and learn about the characters, and you can just really keep digging in deeper, every week.
Elizabeth Meriwether
Work
Time
Day
You
Every Day
Long
Long Time
Every
Think
Digging
Characters
TV
TV Show
About
Something
Something New
Week
Writer
Develop
Exciting
Exciting Things
New
Like
Most
Learn
Just
Really
Really Long Time
Show
Novel
Keep
Deeper
Things
Other people, including me, have written books with main characters who were old and rich. Or old and brilliant. Old sages, old wizards, old rich people.
Elizabeth Moon
Me
People
Old
Brilliant
Rich
Other
Books
Characters
Main
Written
Wizards
Were
Rich People
Who
Including
I don't ever really know where I get my characters from.
Elizabeth Strout
Characters
Know
Get
Where
Really
Ever
I didn't want to give up my career. That's what kept me alive, kept me going. I couldn't stop - didn't want to stop - being all these different characters.
Elizabeth Wilson
Me
Alive
Characters
Give
Up
Going
Stop
Being
Different
Want
Different Characters
Career
Kept
I like playing characters with as many emotions as possible. I'd love to play a really crazy person - someone truly out of her mind.
Elle Fanning
Love
Crazy
Emotions
Mind
Out
Possible
Characters
Someone
Like
Truly
Person
Crazy Person
Really
Many
Play
Her
Playing
I like spending a lot of time fine-tuning all the small characters. I think it really pays off.
Ellen Chenoweth
Time
Think
Spending
Characters
Small
Like
Lot
Off
Really
Pays
Things that go on at Happy Times are very funny this year, and if you were watching last year, some of the people you saw then as basically extras emerge as real characters in their own right this season, at least to some degree.
Ellen Muth
Funny
You
Happy
People
Degree
Year
Own
Saw
Characters
Some
Emerge
Least
Real
Real Characters
Go
Were
Very
Times
Then
Season
Right
Things
Last
Watching
Basically
Last Year
There's a remarkable amount of sexism on TV. When male characters are flawed, they're interesting, deep and complex. But when female characters are flawed, they're just a mess. It's good to put more flawed but interesting female characters out there because it promotes equality.
Ellen Pompeo
Good
Equality
Complex
Out
Characters
TV
Sexism
More
Remarkable
Put
Mess
Because
Female
Female Characters
Male
Just
Interesting
Flawed
Deep
Amount
I like dialogue in novels. I wanted to avoid laying history on with a trowel - appearing to be lecturing, as opposed to the characters lecturing their children or students. Dialogue can humanise the story and make it go down somewhat more smoothly.
Elliot Perlman
History
Down
Characters
More
Somewhat
Laying
Students
Like
Make
Smoothly
Dialogue
Opposed
Go
Lecturing
Children
Wanted
Story
Avoid
Appearing
Novels
Sometimes female characters start out as the wife or girlfriend, but then I realize, 'No, she's the book,' and she becomes a main character. I surrender the book to her.
Elmore Leonard
Character
Surrender
Book
Sometimes
Wife
Out
Characters
Girlfriend
Main
Main Character
She
Female
Becomes
Female Characters
Realize
Then
Her
Start
My characters have to talk, or they're out. They audition in early scenes. If they can't talk, they're given less to do, or thrown out.
Elmore Leonard
Out
Characters
Given
Scenes
Thrown
Talk
Audition
Less
Early
I think any writer is a fool if he doesn't do it for money. There needs to be some kind of incentive in addition to the project. It all goes together. It's fun to sit there and think of characters and get them into action, then be paid for it.
Elmore Leonard
Needs
Together
Fool
Money
Sit
Action
Think
Addition
Project
Characters
Kind
Some
Writer
He
Get
Goes
Any
Them
Then
Paid
Incentive
Fun
We can list a bunch of actors who have embodied characters that aren't their nationalities, and I think that's the beauty of acting.
Elodie Yung
Beauty
Think
Characters
Embodied
Bunch
List
Acting
Who
Actor
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