It is always dullest before the yawn..

I'm not making a movie about the real people. I'm making a movie about what they did, and what happened to them. But I will create characters so that….

I try to create as many circumstances outside of set that help me fall into character when I get onto set..

We are far more like somebody watching ourselves than somebody in charge of ourselves..

It's easier to write about heartbreak after you've had your heart broken. You have more material to draw from, you can extrapolate from your own expe….

Normally, filmmakers would just write a script and cast people to act as certain characters in the story. But in my way of doing things, I have the a….

It is impossible - now, at this point in the long journey of human culture - to avoid the sense that pain is necessity; that it is neither accident, ….

The independent film business is pretty much gone. Now you can do it in a format where you actually get to develop a character over a period of time..

All characters have a voice but not all voices have character. And it's all about character and personality..

I think that there's something really special about doing a series. You get inside the skin of that character 'cause it's such a long time..

It is not the events in our life that define our character, but how we deal with them..

Age should not have its face lifted, but it should rather teach the world to admire wrinkles as the etchings of experience and the firm line of chara….

Theatre should be a taxing experience: the greatest achievement of a writer is to produce a character who creates anxiety..

Divorced, not loving their abandoned children as much as they loathe their former wives, directing a combination of need and hostility toward the wom….

There's a ton of potential to do something absolutely loopy with a world that you create and characters that you are literally surgically constructin….

Character wants room; must not be crowded on by persons, nor be judged from glimpses got in the press of affairs, or on few occasions. It needs persp….

I cannot think of any character below the flatterer, except he who envies him.

The Johnny Depp generation has this kind of brooding, weighty, introspective quality, very James Deanish. Which is nice, great for a lot of character….

I never get the tall, blonde, glamorous roles because I'm not tall, blonde and glamorous. I'm more the wee, disturbing characters because of the way ….

People had been so attached to the Diane [Cheers] character that audiences and producers found it difficult to think of me in any other terms. It too….

I'm a happy-go-lucky character. I'm not that miserable. But I can never let anyone into my world..