I'm a music storyteller and collaborator. I hear character, location, and story as music. For me a score is there to both heighten the story and to a….
Most people assume that a muse is a creature of perfect beauty, poise and grace. Like the creatures from Greek mythology. They're wrong. In fact, the….
There's usually a sense of humor about all of it. It is what it is. I had two characters that were equally detestable, in very different ways, that h….
People don't stop me on the street and throw things at me. But I'm aware of what that dynamic is, so whenever people react strongly to a character an….
Acting is still, of course, what I love to do most. The beauty of it is that by changing characters, it never gets boring..
The image by Barry Blitt of Barack Obama and Michelle in the White House with him dressed as a terrorist, her dressed as an Angela Davis character, a….
I'm an actor, in particular, that likes to have a mask or something that can help me distance myself from the character. Like the moustache or an acc….
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….
I don't know how to play myself. I'm not interested enough in myself. That's just not how I was educated. That's not how I learned to become an actor….
May your character not be a writing upon the sand, but an inscription upon the rock!.
Sincerity is impossible, unless it pervade the whole being, and the pretence of it saps the very foundation of character..
As an actor, I usually have to find something to love about my character in order to play her..
That’s the problem with fiction — or the charm, if you want. Even mediocre plots have a way of sinking their hooks into you, until you find yourself ….
Some say they are not bound by the doctrine which teaches that the Mystical Body of Christ and the Roman Catholic Church are one and the same thing. ….
In selecting men for office, let principle be your guide. Regard not the particular sect or denomination of the candidate-look to his character..
Elijah can register such subtle emotion on his face that I loved doing close-ups on him. He really brings a superb emotional level to Frodo's scenes ….
I write characters focusing on them as human beings, and then you wrap them within a culture. So I think I can connect with him as a person with brow….
Special effects are characters. Special effects are essential elements. Just because you can't see them doesn't mean they aren't there..
I have a great interest in Victorian musical & cabaret performances and Weimar artists so the references are there, to Cabaret and also All That Jazz….
The deep-read is when you get gut-hooked and dragged overboard down and down through the maze of print and find, to your amazement, you can breathe d….
When you do films that have multiple sequels, you develop a character for a film..