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I love making characters real and believable, through my own experience and choices. Minka Kelly

Love Experience Own Characters My Own Through Making Real Choices Believable

I try not to judge my characters. If I'm looking at it from the outside, I'd say, 'No, she's not really a great mother.' But she wishes she were, and she wants to be, and she still has instincts toward protecting her son and wanting him to be a happy person. Mira Sorvino

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I always do that for all of my characters. I built a music playlist for her... with songs she really likes. Mira Sorvino

Music Characters Songs Likes She Always Built Really Her

I guess I find it easy to play uptight characters. Miranda Otto

Guess Characters Easy Find Uptight Play

It's so great to come in and do something where you know how strong the format of the show is and you're working with writers and directors who worked on the original show. It feels like you're going into a well-run ship already. Then it's just a matter of creating these new characters. Miranda Otto

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In the past, I was always drawn to really quirky, idiosyncratic characters. Miranda Otto

Past Drawn Characters Always Quirky In The Past Really

I always respond to characters who have depth. I'm always interested in those people. They're the ones who surprise you. Miriam Shor

You People Those Respond Characters Always Surprise Interested Depth Who

In Hollywood, way too often, the goal for actresses is to get cast in roles as the wife or the mother or a relationship that somehow orbits around the man, whereas 'Sex And The City' had these characters where the women had their own independent stories. Miriam Shor

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'Irma Voth' is my sixth book, but it's only the third time I've featured Mennonite settings and characters. Miriam Toews

Time Book Settings Characters Only Featured Sixth Third

I like playing dark, offbeat, quirky characters. Mischa Barton

Dark Characters Like Offbeat Quirky Playing

I have been lucky enough to portray many, many characters. Mohanlal

Enough Characters Been Many Lucky Portray

I throw everything I have into whatever story I'm writing - and so there's something immensely gratifying about finishing one piece and then starting fresh with a new setting, time period and cast of characters, getting to see the world through a completely different lens each time. Molly Antopol

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I love being in the archives, traveling, sitting in dusty places and looking at books with brittle pages. I love reading biographies and researching, to make myself informed about whatever political or historical time I'm writing about. From there, a lot of the emotional truths about my characters emerge. Molly Antopol

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The stories I love the most are where the author has a lot of empathy for everyone. The author loves their characters and takes their situations really seriously, and you feel like you're just dropped into a different world. Molly Antopol

I've never believed it's a fiction writer's job to create an exact replica of the past, a diorama the reader can step right into. But it is my responsibility to learn everything of the world I'm writing about, to become an expert in the politics and history that formed my characters' identities. Molly Antopol

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I suppose 'My Hollywood' is only as politically meaningful as it is deeply inside the least powerful of its characters. I wanted it to reveal scenes of subtle exploitation, odd instances of accidental power and challenges to decency specific to its time, but also impulses of generosity that transcend our particular era's messes. Mona Simpson

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Inspiration is key for me in choosing characters. Morena Baccarin

Me Key Characters Inspiration Choosing

I make notebooks for characters, and it kind of becomes a bible. Morgan Saylor

Bible Characters Kind Make Becomes Notebooks

Although my stories are all very different on the surface, I like to write stories about characters struggling with big problems. I'm always reminded, no matter how different from me one of my characters is from me on the surface, how we're all pretty much the same underneath. Morris Gleitzman

I don't know if it's a sadistic side or whatever, but you take characters and put them in really awful situations and make them go through that. And it's very satisfying as a director to explore that, to tell those stories and to explore those themes, because it is so human. Morten Tyldum

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The more shaded, flawed characters that are struggling, I think there's something very relatable about that. Morten Tyldum

Think Characters About Something More Struggling Very Flawed

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