If you write interesting roles, you get interesting people to play them. If you write roles that are full of nuance and contradiction and have interesting dialog, actors are drawn to that.
Interpretation
Engaging roles attract talented actors, as complexity and depth enhance the narrative.
This quote by Paul Schrader emphasizes the importance of crafting multifaceted characters in writing. It suggests that when roles are imbued with depth, nuance, and engaging dialogue, they not only enrich the story but also draw the attention of skilled actors eager to bring such complex characters to life.
In practice
A playwright can use this quote during a workshop on character development to inspire writers.
I think my work has to do with a sense that we are attempting, all the time, to create a logical, rational path through the day. To the left and right there are an amazing set of distractions that we usually can't afford to follow. But the poet is willing to stop anywhere.
There is no civilization that did not begin with art, Whether it was drawing a line in the sand, painting a cave or dancing.
Some of the most intense affairs are between actors and characters. There's a fire in the human heart and we jump into it with the same obsession as we have with our lovers.
In a rehearsal room, your real resource as an actor aren't the things around you; your resources are your imagination and your director and the other actors. In those close quarters, your imagination and your skills are what you turn to.
Well, yes. I believe that children's souls are the inheritors of historical memory from previous generations. It's just that as they grow older and experience the everyday world that memory sinks lower and lower. I feel I need to make a film that reaches down to that level. If I could do that I would die happy.
When I was young, I was so interested in baseball that my family was afraid I'd waste my life and be a pitcher. Later they were afraid I'd waste my life and be a poet. They were right.
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