What always was must always be..
There are two kinds of characters in all fiction, the born and the synthetic. If the writer has to ask himself questions - is he tall, is he short? -….
There are twenty-four characters in this book named Max. Let there be an end to this silly business of authors never giving their own names to charac….
So in terms of a large part of the job on our show specifically, what makes the show complex and interesting and funnier are the conversations about ….
I've dealt with numbers all my life, of course, and after a while you begin to feel that each number has a personality of its own. A twelve is very d….
Even in 2012, if there's a black character in the movies or on television that's a professional, if we even hear about their backgrounds they're alwa….
In general, I enjoy athletes who have a strong character who let their abilities speak for themselves..
If you are being weird or silly you can be excused because you are just playing a character.
The character is a piece of fiction. You are yourself, however, and that makes you interesting, because you're alive and you're a human being..
Television: The device that brings into your living room characters you would never allow in your living room..
Strangely enough, the first character in Fried Green Tomatoes was the cafe, and the town. I think a place can be as much a character in a novel as th….
It's my favorite movie score and because I had such a crush on Christopher Reeve. The music made me love him even more. You know when you hear music ….
And I have to credit David Jacobs with the opportunities he gave me. He was totally into sharing the creation of characters. David put together a sho….
The comics I read as a kid were much more influenced by TV and movies. Encountering superheroes as an adult without that kind of childhood sentimenta….
I read [The Women's Room] in my 20s, and I was like, "I understand this now." And now I've become a mom and read it again and truly understand on a d….
The gamers are smart. They see right through the moral scale. Actually, with Dragon Age, I really liked the system the team came up with. It reflects….
Oh my God I am so cool..
You can’t has,' he whispered softly, 'not yours..
Sometimes I think too much, or sometimes I don't think enough as the character. Sometimes you just miss a moment, or sometimes you hear something tha….
I prefer not to wink out from behind the character as myself, saying to the audience, "It's just me here, right, guys?" Peter Sellers is my model, an….
Part of what compels me to write day after day, chapter after chapter, is the discovery process, seeing the characters evolve as I get deeper and dee….