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….
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….
Leadership consists not in degrees of technique but in traits of character..
The maxims of men reveal their characters..
Strength is not gained overnight; it is cultivated over time..
For me, as I've said many times, the story is not research. The story is how the characters relate with each other and with the environment... I try ….
I was shooting on The Mindy Project while I was editing Alex of Venice, which was the stupidest thing I could've done. It was like having two full-ti….
I read, therefore I'm interested in writers..
I'm a chronic relapser. I guess I always will be..
You should remember that though another may have more money, beauty, and brains than you, when it comes to the rarer spiritual values such as charity….
It has always seemed to me that any man is a better man for being a hunter. This sport confers a certain constant alertness, and develops a certain r….
I definitely feel like when I write a book it's not my job to police or guide the readers. The book and the characters don't belong to me anymore. If….
Death is something we shouldn't fear because, while we are, death isn't, and when death is, we aren't..
Before change can be managed, it has to be sparked..
The readers are very similar. The books they know, the questions they ask, the characters they like. That is similar..