The benefit of writing a collection - as opposed to a novel - is that I'm able to have some version of the war in each story without having to commen….
It used to be that people would watch TV shows because they knew the characters would stay the same. Whether it's Archie Bunker or it's Thomas Magnum….
We build character in order for us to withstand the rigors of combat and resist the temptations to compromise our principles in peacetime. We must bu….
That's the fun thing of casting a show. I'm a pretty strong believer that TV makes stars, not the other way around. I love the idea of having a cast ….
I learned a long time ago that you don't have to go around using bad language and trying to hurt people to show how macho you are. That stuff won't g….
No matter how extreme things get, it still has that ring of truth about it that backs the characters - even though they're despicable and what they'r….
I don't see a difference between playing a performance capture role and a live action role, they're just characters to me at the end of the day and I….
I have things planned for every character like what they're doing down the road and coming to different realizations but I don't have how they overla….
If you play a real character who's famous and still alive, it makes things easier if you have the luck to have a good relationship with them..
Whenever I play a role, whether it's good or bad, an evil person or nice person, I believe in being a purist and going all the way with the role. If ….
Scar tissue has no character. It's not like skin. It doesn't show age or illness or pallor or tan. It has no pores, no hair, no wrinkles. It's like a….
When characters are drifting away from the "correct road", or in fact from any road they were supposed to follow, they lose control, they find other ….
A solid theatrical education can only improve a screen performance. It gives you a fuller capacity to read a script and understand a character, for o….
The fact of the matter is, Obama and the Democrats did a number on Mitt Romney's reputation and his character and his image with outrageous commercia….
Making a film is like making a mixtape. You're collecting all this stuff and putting your favorite stuff into it: you have actors that you like, char….
Plays can create empathy. If you put a Muslim character on stage, and make him a full character, you're making it possible for the audience to feel e….
Photography is the typical means of expression of a society founded on a civilization of technicians, conscious of the aims it has set for itself... ….
I express things through characters because I have a fear that my own voice is irritating because thats been said to me..
This novel has it all--mystery, psychological insight, emotional truth, and--most important--characters whose lives matter. You'll fall in love with ….
One has to endure betrayal and disloyalty and, hardest of all , another person's excellence of character or intellect.
It's going to sound like the easy answer, but I love them both. I do! I really don't prefer one over the other. With movies, you really dive into a c….