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It's a huge responsibility writing about people who are alive. It's the thing about writing that keeps me awake at night: dramatising real-life events with real people.
Simon Beaufoy
Me
People
Writing
Events
Responsibility
Alive
About
Real
Huge
Huge Responsibility
Real People
Who
Awake
Keeps
Thing
Night
There is a difference between using a made-up name and using real people as pseudonyms. People are not costumes you can wear. They are flesh and blood.
Siri Hustvedt
You
People
Wear
Costumes
Between
Name
Real
Blood
Real People
Difference
Flesh
Using
Exploration by real people inspires us.
Stephen Hawking
People
Inspires
Real
Real People
Us
Exploration
I think 'Speech & Debate' surprised people because it's a play about teenagers that took the teenagers very seriously. They are very real. People wanted to see if they identified with one of the kids, that loneliness, that yearning for something bigger. That feeling of being stuck, it's very adolescent, but those kinds of feelings linger on.
Stephen Karam
Loneliness
People
Debate
Seriously
Feeling
Feelings
Think
Took
Teenagers
Those
Kids
Kinds
See
About
Adolescent
Something
Stuck
Identified
Because
Real
Surprised
Yearning
Linger
Very
Real People
Being
Wanted
Bigger
Play
Speech
Researching real people and doing them, I think, is harder than anything else. You don't want to do a caricature of them and you don't want to do an impression. You just want to do the best you can, in terms of presenting their views and a general impression of the guy. That's the hardest thing to do, real people.
Stephen Root
Best
You
People
Think
Else
Caricature
Guy
General
Terms
Real
Doing
Impression
Than
Real People
Just
The Hardest Thing
Want
Anything
Anything Else
Them
Views
Researching
Harder
Hardest
Hardest Thing
Thing
Presenting
The recent controversy over the portrayal of Ken Taylor and his embassy staff in the movie 'Argo' brought home to me the great responsibility we writers have when telling stories that involve real people.
Susanna Kearsley
Home
Great
Me
People
Responsibility
Embassy
Telling
Brought
Writers
Great Responsibility
Over
Involve
Real
His
Real People
Controversy
Staff
Movie
Stories
Taylor
Ken
Portrayal
Recent
Real people speak in my books about the main events of the age, such as the war, the Chernobyl disaster, and the downfall of a great empire.
Svetlana Alexievich
War
Great
Age
People
Speak
Events
Books
About
Main
Empire
Disaster
Real
Real People
Downfall
I don't have any special approach for playing dark characters. That's because I never looked at them as dark characters per se. For me, they were real people.
Tabu
Me
People
Dark
Approach
Characters
Per
Never
Looked
Because
Real
Were
Real People
Any
Them
Special
Playing
I like real people - salt-of-the-earth men.
Tanit Phoenix
People
Men
Like
Real
Real People
I found out that superstars Winkler and William Shatner are real people, and I was so thankful for that.
Terry Bradshaw
Thankful
People
William
Out
Superstars
Shatner
Real
Real People
Found
We thus see that the Greeks of the early ages knew little of any real people except those to the east and south of their own country, or near the coast of the Mediterranean.
Thomas Bulfinch
People
Country
Own
Mediterranean
Those
East
See
Except
Knew
Thus
Real
South
Greeks
Real People
Any
Little
Ages
Coast
Near
Early
Shakespeare lets us see real people undergoing real processes, with real feelings.
Vanessa Redgrave
People
Feelings
See
Shakespeare
Undergoing
Real
Real People
Processes
Us
Lets
My biggest bits of advice are, write as much as you can, finish what you start, get a thick skin, don't take crap from anyone, but also live your life and have fun. The stereotype of a writer holed up alone all day is really unhelpful. You can't write real people and real emotion if you don't let yourself experience them.
Victoria Aveyard
Life
Alone
Day
You
Experience
Yourself
People
Have Fun
Advice
Skin
Live
All Day
Bits
Finish
Emotion
Write
Writer
Take
Stereotype
Also
Real
Real Emotion
Up
Real People
Get
Anyone
Crap
Biggest
Unhelpful
Them
Much
Really
Your
Fun
Thick
Thick Skin
Start
All the characters on 'Girls' are growing and changing, which is how real people behave, especially when we're young, trying to figure out who we are, doing things that are the polar opposite of our characteristics.
Zosia Mamet
People
Girl
Young
Changing
Our
Characteristics
Out
Characters
Polar
How
Real
Doing
Opposite
Real People
Trying
Behave
Which
Figure
Who
Growing
Things
If you apprentice yourself to the smartest people who will take you seriously, you will learn at every step. You'll learn their special language. You'll see what real people do. Your interests might surprise you. They will evolve. And you'll be well-positioned to take advantage of whatever opportunity life throws your way.
Marc Randolph
Life
You
Yourself
People
Opportunity
Language
Seriously
Will
Take Advantage
Whatever
Every
Every Step
Apprentice
Way
Evolve
See
Take
Throws
Step
Advantage
Smartest
Learn
Real
Surprise
Real People
Might
Interests
Your
Special
Who
I love the true life stories and the biopics - people say I'm pigeonholed, but it's a fantastic kind of pigeonhole - but it's tough to then go and direct it because I know all the real people.
Dustin Lance Black
Life
Love
People
Tough
Say
Kind
I Love
People Say
Direct
True
Know
True Life
Pigeonhole
Pigeonholed
Because
Real
Go
Real People
Stories
Fantastic
Then
Every time a Hollywood director shoots a film about Africa that features a Western protagonist, I shake my head - because Africans, real people though we may be, are used as props in the West's fantasy of itself.
Uzodinma Iweala
Time
Director
People
Every
Every Time
Though
About
Shake
Features
Head
Props
Protagonist
Because
Real
West
Western
Itself
Real People
Shoots
May
Africa
African
Fantasy
Hollywood
Used
Film
I think country music is popular - has been popular and will always be popular because I think a lot of real people singing about a lot of real stuff about real people. And it's simple enough for people to understand it. And we kind of roll with the punches.
Dolly Parton
Music
People
Simple
Will
Country
Singing
Think
Enough
Punches
I Think
Has-Been
Kind
About
Stuff
Country Music
Because
Understand
Always
Real
Been
Lot
Real People
Roll
Popular
When you are doing a film about real people, you don't have a lot of manoeuvrability when it comes to how much you can add by way of imagination. You have to replicate what they were like. What you can add to it is your version of it.
Tahir Raj Bhasin
You
People
Imagination
Add
Way
About
Like
How
Real
How Much
Doing
Were
Lot
Version
Replicate
Real People
Much
Your
Film
I like live audiences, with real people - virtual reality is no substitute.
Hillary Clinton
Reality
People
Live
Virtual
Virtual Reality
Like
Audiences
Real
Real People
Substitute
My parents were real people. They didn't put on airs or false faces. They were what they were.
John Carter Cash
People
Parents
Faces
Put
Real
Were
False
Real People
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