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I'm still really fascinated with characters and people and telling their stories.
Michelle Monaghan
People
Characters
Telling
Still
Stories
Really
Fascinated
Writing is a mysterious process, and many ideas come from deep within the imagination, so it's very hard to say how characters come about. Mostly, they just happen.
Michelle Paver
Writing
Imagination
Say
Characters
About
Mysterious
Come
Ideas
Mostly
Within
How
Very
Just
Happen
Process
Hard
Deep
Many
I like those really multidimensional characters like Dean Ambrose and Bray Wyatt.
Mick Foley
Those
Characters
Like
Dean
Really
Bray Wyatt is one of the most captivating characters to come down the pike in ages.
Mick Foley
Down
Characters
Come
Most
Ages
Captivating
In a sense, I think the WWE Universe has become one of the greatest characters of the modern era.
Mick Foley
Become
Sense
Think
Universe
Characters
WWE
Greatest
Era
Modern
Modern Era
In the music industry, you meet some not very nice people, some very strange characters.
Midge Ure
Music
You
Strange
People
Nice
Meet
Music Industry
Characters
Some
Industry
Very
Nice People
I read a blog about this young filmmaker in the Philippines who made a short film, and one of the characters in the film reads my novel and then starts discussing the novel with someone. The idea that my book can inspire another artist and be part of that other artist's work... that's the reason I write.
Miguel Syjuco
Work
Book
Inspire
Philippines
Made
Young
Starts
Other
Characters
About
Someone
Write
Part
Idea
Read
Another
Reads
Blog
Discussing
Artist
Short
Short Film
Then
Reason
Who
Novel
Film
Filmmaker
That's the moment you look for as a writer, when the characters start telling you what they are doing rather than you telling them.
Mike Bartlett
You
Characters
Telling
Rather
Writer
Look
Doing
Than
Them
Moment
Start
As artists, we are so not in control most of the time of the content or the narrative of our characters, and sometimes writing takes a turn and it's not something we necessarily have control over. It's just a lot of random dumb luck, so when things click, you've just got to enjoy it.
Mike Colter
Time
You
Writing
Sometimes
Random
Control
Luck
Enjoy
Our
Characters
Something
Takes
Over
Most
Click
Content
Narrative
Got
Dumb
Lot
Just
Artists
Turn
Things
Necessarily
Marvel does a fantastic job about bringing human stories - because you're telling big stories with a heart at the centre of it - and that's what connects all of the characters to our audience members.
Mike Colter
You
Heart
Job
Big
Our
Members
Characters
Telling
About
Marvel
Because
Audience
Does
Audience Members
Human
Stories
Centre
Fantastic
Connects
Bringing
The black community wants to buy things and want to see themselves portrayed in a certain way. And if they don't like what they see, then they won't spend their money. Everyone's not gonna always relate to Captain America; everyone is not going to always relate to Thor. A lot of characters just don't speak to them.
Mike Colter
Buy
Speak
Money
Black
Community
Relate
Everyone
Spend
Thor
Way
Characters
Black Community
See
Like
Always
Lot
America
Going
Just
Want
Wants
Them
Gonna
Themselves
Then
Certain
Certain Way
Captain
Captain America
Things
Portrayed
In 'Dragon Ball,' the characters have a challenge. They know they have to push their bodies to the limit in their training so they can make sure to defeat their opponent, much like professional football players.
Mike Daniels
Training
Challenge
Defeat
Characters
Push
Football
Football Players
Like
Know
Make
Sure
Limit
Ball
Opponent
Much
Bodies
Professional
Professional Football
Players
Dragon
I am always fascinated by the mental struggles that people and characters have.
Mike Flanagan
People
Characters
Mental
Struggles
Always
Am
Fascinated
All the Disney lead male characters always have this kind of John Davidson kind of look to them. They all look like the same guy, and all the females look like the same, and I think the guys are just way too big.
Mike Judge
Big
Think
Too
Way
Characters
Kind
John
Guy
Guys
Lead
Like
Look
Always
Females
Male
Same
Just
Them
Disney
The whole thing about making films in an organic film on location is that it's not all about characters, relationships and themes, it's also about place and the poetry of place. It's about the spirit of what you find, the accidents of what you stumble across.
Mike Leigh
You
Stumble
Accidents
Organic
Films
Relationships
Location
Characters
Find
Spirit
About
Poetry
Also
Making
Place
Themes
Across
Whole
Film
Thing
I have very happy memories of fairy tales. My mother used to take me to the library in Toronto to check out the fairy tales. And she was an actress, so she used to act out for me the different characters in all these fairy tales.
Mike Myers
Me
Library
Memories
Happy
Mother
Out
Characters
Toronto
Take
Check
Tales
She
Fairy
Fairy Tales
Very
Different
Different Characters
Act
Used
Actress
A great thing is happening on cable TV. You see characters change in stories over years, like in Tolstoy. That's a whole, thrilling new form that I really enjoy. They are Tolstoy-an in their endless character development and narrative changes... a show like 'Breaking Bad' is astonishing.
Mike Nichols
Great
Character
You
Change
Enjoy
Changes
Astonishing
Character Development
Characters
TV
Bad
See
Thrilling
Cable
Cable TV
Development
Over
New
Like
Great Thing
Narrative
Years
Endless
Form
Stories
Happening
Breaking
Breaking Bad
Really
Show
Whole
Tolstoy
Thing
My impulse is to create an aesthetic that's about a humanistic approach to a world and trying to create compassion for all the characters.
Mike White
World
Compassion
Approach
Characters
About
Aesthetic
Trying
Impulse
Create
Humanistic
I want to have compassion for my characters - I feel like I am the characters when I'm writing them.
Mike White
Writing
Compassion
Characters
Feel
Like
Am
Want
Them
I love playing different characters and I love doing fun things and I love to entertain people, whether that be in a comedy or a drama. If I get you to laugh or I get you to cry I'm super stoked, as morbid as that might sound.
Mila Kunis
Love
You
People
Comedy
Drama
Laugh
Characters
Entertain
Entertain People
Super
Morbid
Cry
Sound
Doing
Get
Stoked
Different
Whether
Different Characters
Might
Fun
Fun Things
Things
Playing
Because I just loved to spend two years of my life in the company of Andy Kaufman and other characters.
Milos Forman
Life
My Life
Other
Spend
Characters
Andy
Because
Years
Just
Loved
Company
Two
Sometimes I eavesdrop on people. I could rationalize it - oh, this is good anthropological research for characters I'm writing - but it's basically just nosiness. It also helps me gauge where I'm at: Am I normal?
Mindy Kaling
Good
Me
People
Writing
Sometimes
Research
Gauge
Characters
Eavesdrop
Rationalize
Could
Also
Am
Normal
Oh
Just
Where
Helps
Basically
I must have been 10 or 11, but anything Dana Carvey ever did, I just really loved. He was on for a long time, I don't really know when that era was. I could watch Dana Carvey with my parents, they loved him too. They loved all his characters.
Mindy Kaling
Time
Long
Parents
Long Time
Too
Characters
Must
Could
He
Know
Him
Era
Been
His
Did
Just
Anything
Loved
Really
Ever
Watch
As a kid, I always loved serialized books. It's the reason why people love 'Harry Potter.' Serialization is amazing. It works in television. It works in film and it works in books. Especially when you're a young kid, you get attached to these characters.
Mindy Kaling
Love
You
People
Amazing
Young
Books
Harry
Harry Potter
Kid
Television
Characters
Attached
Potter
Always
Get
Loved
Young Kid
Reason
Works
Film
Why
I'm trying to show I'm a trained actress - I can transform myself into different characters. I'm not just an ingenue.
Ming-Na Wen
Myself
Characters
Trained
Trying
Just
Different
Transform
Different Characters
Ingenue
Show
Actress
That's what was so amazing about 'Mulan.' Here is this story with all Chinese characters, and yet so many people related to her character and loved the story. So I really think as long as you have a good story that relates to a lot of people, it doesn't matter what ethnicity it is.
Ming-Na Wen
Good
Character
You
People
Amazing
Matter
Long
Think
Related
Relates
Characters
About
Good Story
Lot
So Many People
Loved
Story
Chinese
Really
Ethnicity
Many
Her
Here
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