Exercise the writing muscle every day, even if it is only a letter, notes, a title list, a character sketch, a journal entry. Writers are like dancer….
It has been observed that a pure democracy if it were practicable would be the most perfect government. Experience has proved that no position is mor….
The most difficult part of any crime novel is the plotting. It all begins simply enough, but soon you're dealing with a multitude of linked character….
To me, casting is all about finding a character within the actor off the screen as much as on the screen..
For me, intrigue is a pretty powerful emotion. If you want to know more about a character, if you want to understand how they work, then you have eno….
What is power without control?.
Paint the essential character of things..
Our weaknesses are the indigenous produce of our characters; but our strength is the forced fruit..
Read the script as a fan and try to create this community in your head. That's the thing that a lot of people tend to forget - it's not just about yo….
Now, personally, I like a car with some sort of character..
For me, screenwriting is all about setting characters in motion and as a writer just chasing them. They should tell you what they’ll do in any scene ….
I like to push characters to extremes so they have to make really tough decisions and there is no life more extreme than that of an athlete..
I feel like I've been very lucky with the directors. The characters I've been offered, especially lately, have given me the opportunity to play all o….
My mentor Jon Simmons introduced me to the Stanislavski system, which is so heavy on back-story. So you write and write and write these back stories ….
What's actually amazing is that, after a couple of years of living with characters and writing characters and talking about characters, as we sit in ….
Doctor Mengele is such a powerful character historically, as powerful as Nazism itself, so these subjects always tend to be the protagonists. What I ….
The Seer Stone referred to here was a chocolate-colored, somewhat egg-shaped stone which the Prophet found while digging a well in company with his b….
All I know is it’s silly to chase fun when all you need is the ground underneath you to be solid. And I don’t expect to be one of those people that d….
The thrill of doing television versus features is in television you get to focus more on the characters..
You try to get to know your character as best as you can before you start filming - whats written and not written..
The vast majority of golfers don't go on to play golf as a profession, but they do go onto other professions where there will heat on them from time ….