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I have this wholesome disposition in a lot of my characters. A certain earnestness.
Matt Lauria
Disposition
Earnestness
Characters
Lot
Certain
Wholesome
Twitter is the ultimate service for the mobile age - its simplification and constraint of the publishing medium to 140 characters is perfectly complementary to a mobile experience. People still need longer stuff, but they see the headline on Twitter or Facebook.
Matt Mullenweg
Service
Age
Facebook
Experience
People
Twitter
Medium
Complementary
Characters
See
Constraint
Simplification
Perfectly
Stuff
Headline
Longer
Still
Ultimate
Mobile
Publishing
Need
I hope that people have more to say than 140 characters will allow them in their life.
Matt Mullenweg
Life
Hope
People
Will
Say
Characters
More
Allow
Than
Them
Twitter is the ultimate service for the mobile age - its simplification and constraint of the publishing medium to 140 characters is perfectly complementary to a mobile experience.
Matt Mullenweg
Service
Age
Experience
Twitter
Medium
Complementary
Characters
Constraint
Simplification
Perfectly
Ultimate
Mobile
Publishing
'Avatar' was incredible and totally groundbreaking, but it wasn't about utter realism. It had a great mythic fantasy to it, but the characters don't seem totally photo-real, as amazing as they are.
Matt Reeves
Great
Amazing
Incredible
Characters
Totally
About
Seem
Mythic
Had
Realism
Avatar
Fantasy
Utter
I think from the time I was a kid I've been an entertainer. I've always had the ability to play characters. When I came to California, I was overwhelmed that you could do this and get paid for it, make a living on it, and be creative within this art form.
Matt Schulze
Art
Time
You
Creative
Living
Think
Kid
Characters
Entertainer
Ability
Could
Had
California
Make
Within
Always
Came
Been
Art Form
Overwhelmed
Get
Form
Paid
Play
There are good characters and bad characters.
Matt Stone
Good
Characters
Bad
Somebody like Mailer brings to that role everything that he stands for. The types of characters that I gravitate towards, the types of icons, tend to have a heavy physicality in that way.
Matthew Barney
Somebody
Types
Everything
Way
Characters
Physicality
Tend
He
Towards
Like
Role
Heavy
Icons
Stands
Gravitate
Brings
I've read a lot of really great characters in some really crappy stories, where I said, like, 'Boy I could shine here, but the story sucks.' I don't want to be part of that.
Matthew McConaughey
Great
Shine
Characters
Some
Could
Part
Like
Read
Boy
Said
Lot
Where
Want
Crappy
Stories
Story
Really
Sucks
Here
Yeah, what happened was Universal wanted one of the characters to be nice so they chose me so there was a scene where the girl was tied to the bed and I let her go.
Matthew McGrory
Me
Be Nice
Girl
Nice
Characters
Scene
Tied
Bed
Yeah
Go
Where
Wanted
Happened
Chose
Her
Universal
Exposing characters and their shortcomings gives me great comfort. It's always great to write about someone more mixed up than yourself.
Matthew Nable
Great
Me
Yourself
Characters
About
Someone
More
Gives
Write
Comfort
Always
Mixed
Up
Than
Shortcomings
Exposing
Dickens's final book, 'The Mystery of Edwin Drood,' forms the jumping-off point for my new novel, 'The Last Dickens'. This last work by Dickens has very little social commentary and a pretty tightly efficient storyline and cast of characters. Not necessarily what we think of when we think what characterizes Dickens.
Matthew Pearl
Work
Book
Think
Final
Characters
Pretty
Cast
Point
Mystery
New
Tightly
Dickens
Commentary
Very
Efficient
Storyline
Forms
Little
Social
Novel
Necessarily
Last
We're sometimes treated like the stupid cousin, so I'm always drawn to characters that make you feel good about being Welsh.
Matthew Rhys
Good
You
Feel Good
Sometimes
Stupid
Drawn
Characters
About
Feel
Like
Make
Always
Cousin
Welsh
Being
Treated
We love fantasy novels in which the characters think that they're peasants but turn out to be princes and kings.
Matthew Tobin Anderson
Love
Think
Out
Characters
Kings
Princes
Which
Turn
Fantasy
Novels
Peasants
I'm just looking for touching characters.
Matthias Schoenaerts
Looking
Characters
Touching
Just
Just Looking
I think that if you've got 5 million people that enjoy drama and invest in characters, you must take the time to not worry about your job and getting sacked and just go for it and hit it again.
Max Beesley
Time
You
People
Job
Enjoy
Think
Drama
Worry
Characters
Must
About
Sacked
Invest
Take
Got
Go
Go For It
Hit
Getting
Just
Again
Your
Million
Million People
I think 'G.I. Joe' is a perfect example of how I'm the world's worst businessman. If I were smart, I'd be writing 'World War Z Part 12', but I have to go where the muse leads, and I've always been a huge 'G.I. Joe' fan. I always wanted to know more about these characters, these little plastic figures I played with as a kid.
Max Brooks
War
Writing
World
Smart
Example
Think
Kid
Worst
Characters
Joe
About
More
Perfect
Perfect Example
Part
Leads
Know
Always
How
Go
Were
Been
Huge
Where
Wanted
Fan
Little
Figures
Businessman
Plastic
Played
World War
Muse
I love bridge-and-tunnel characters. In some respects, they have a chip on their shoulders, but they're proud of where they're from. They're fun and colorful.
Max Joseph
Love
Respects
Characters
Some
Colorful
Proud
Where
Chip
Shoulders
Fun
Those elements that make 'Catfish' so interesting to watch, elements of deception and mystery, make any movie or any piece of content exciting to watch. It makes characters complex and interesting.
Max Joseph
Complex
Those
Characters
Mystery
Exciting
Piece
Catfish
Make
Content
Makes
Any
Movie
Deception
Interesting
Elements
Watch
When I'm working with pictures, with images and storytelling, it's really about the sentiment and the emotional trajectory of the characters. That's really where the music lives, I think. That's what I'm focused on; that's what I respond to most strongly.
Max Richter
Music
Sentiment
Think
Respond
Focused
Characters
About
Strongly
Emotional
Pictures
Most
Trajectory
Where
Storytelling
Really
Working
Lives
Images
It feels like when novelists say they find their characters are doing things they never thought they'd do, the material comes alive, and that's how I feel making music.
Max Richter
Music
Thought
Say
Alive
Characters
Find
Never
Feel
Feels
Like
How
Making
Material
Doing
Novelists
Things
When I go and speak now at all sorts of conferences, later in the night there's always a better Maxie Walker than me. Billy Birmingham's legendary for basically being able to verbally kneecap any of a number of Australia's characters, particularly in the commentary box.
Max Walker
Me
Speak
Better
Birmingham
Later
Characters
Able
Particularly
Sort
Box
Verbally
Always
Go
Australia
Commentary
Walker
Than
Conferences
Legendary
Any
Being
Billy
Now
Basically
Night
Number
I know I sometimes come across as being quite dismissive about acting. But I'm not. It's like people reading their diaries in public. I don't want to talk about how I create characters. I find it self-indulgent.
Maxine Peake
People
Sometimes
Reading
Characters
Find
About
Come
Like
Know
Talk
Self-Indulgent
How
Diaries
Quite
Being
Want
Public
Create
Across
Acting
Sometimes you become friends with the characters you portray.
Max von Sydow
You
Sometimes
Become
Characters
Friends
Portray
When I know what the character I'm supposed to play wants in general terms, and when I know what did the other characters want to do, that's when all these wills collide and the emotions show up.
Max von Sydow
Character
Emotions
Other
Characters
Wills
General
Supposed
Know
Terms
Up
Did
Want
Wants
Show
Play
I'm always playing these mendacious characters who end up hoisting themselves by their own petard.
Maxwell Caulfield
Own
Characters
Always
End
Up
Themselves
Who
Playing
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