I think that acting involves doing your job so well that you are able to help the viewer identify with the character..

I'm drawn to female characters, not all of them are strong characters. I think I'm drawn to female characters partly because they don't have as easy ….

I don't know who will overcome losses, some losses aren't meant to be overcome, but all losses make for good stories and good character development a….

It's possible to overlook character flaws of in-laws for the simple reason that you feel neither responsible for them nor genetically implicated..

Develop a clean line of action for your leading character.

Let the Common School be expanded to its capabilities, let it be worked with the efficiency of which it is susceptible, and nine tenths of the crimes….

I always love costume, and I'm always heavily involved in how things should look. Or how they should feel really, because that's part of the way I su….

When you're writing TV or movies your vernacular is time, it's all based on rhythms, a character takes a beat or two characters have a moment, like e….

We love what we can't have, and we can't have what we love..

When I am kicking around show ideas, or really any idea, usually an image comes to me. I don't really start with a character or a logline like, "What….

For any artistic person who creates imaginary people, the art is like inhabiting the life and mind of a seven-year-old child with imaginary friends a….

I just take everything one at a time and make sure everything I do is the best..

Stand for something. Don't quest for popularity at the expense of morality and ethics and honesty..

Love & kindness have far greater influence than punishment upon the improvement of human character..

Words are just words..

Fortunately, we have writers who very much respect the classic characters and the integrity of the classic characters, that are also terrific comedy ….

Nothing makes me happier than to have a smart person tell me why the show is smart, especially if I didn't intend that. I tend to be a very instinctu….

Joy isn't grounded in our circumstances; it is grounded in the unchanging character of God..

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..