I've played characters who are dark and have done things I never have experienced, which is why I try to find the reasons why they do what they do. W….
I think making a great action movie is one of the hardest cinematic endeavors. By definition, smart characters avoid action. Smart people don't go do….
With a film, you know the beginning, middle and end of your character's arc. But on a TV show, you have no idea where they're going to end up..
Often I'll find clues to where the story might go by figuring out where the characters would rather not go..
Computer programmers tend, by and large, to be quirky and highly individualistic. Trying to organize or manage such awkward characters is normally as….
Every actor's greatest ambition is to create his own, definite and original role, a character with which he will always be identified. In my case, th….
Men look to the East for the dawning things, for the light of a raising sun But they look to the West, to the crimson West, for the things that are d….
We're all just in the muck trying to believe we're capable of greatness, but closer to breaking than we want to admit. And we tell ourselves stories-….
I - and there are hundreds of thousands of Irishmen who felt on this subject as I do - have always liked my Celtic countrymen and disliked the Englis….
Get out of the office. Roam the frontline. Be observant. Hold your people accountable for creating the new narrative, a new story, in which your cust….
The devil's in the details. The way I view my job is to bring the reader into a world they otherwise could not enter and let them see it through the ….
The process of creation goes on all the time. When I get through, I feel I know what the character will do in every situation. But the building up of….
With the type of actor I am, which includes really diving into a role and making it as real as possible, there's nothing better than working in a rea….
I do not use any set methods, not even The Method. The character after all is in the lines..
A character, their ability or inability to laugh at themselves should always be a very, very conscious choice. It's a very big key to the nature of a….
I often think of the space of a page as a stage, with words, letters, syllable characters moving across..
Reality is as thin as paper and betrays with all its cracks its imitative character..
I pretty much always choose characters. That's what I do. That's what I look for. I look for dynamics in a script and potential..
Hire character. Train skill..
We pass for what we are. Character teaches above our wills. Men imagine that they communicate thier virtue or vice by overt actions, and do not see….
The children's writer not only makes a satisfactory connection between [the writer's] present maturity and his past childhood, he also does the same ….