A character is as much about what you do as what you say..
I find myself speaking through the other characters, putting ideas in their voices and heads. Writing almost becomes a splitting of myself into multi….
I'm pretty good at fleshing out characters. I like to crawl inside their minds and imaginations and sort of loll about. Sticking to a clean narrative….
I love making stuff. There's a joy in having the first molecule of an idea, then testing it in front of audiences at secret shows that people only kn….
Casting ethnic characters is a very hard thing to do, but it's important. It's also interesting..
Most famous artists are created by their work and the idea of them as a character, and if they're smart and ambitious, they reinforce that character ….
My job is to focus on bringing characters to life in an honest and personal way..
We have the character of an island nation: independent, forthright, passionate in defence of our sovereignty. We can no more change this British sens….
I've always used masks. I think it's a lot about the fact that masks often reveal a sort of subconscious element to a character. The mask is carved a….
I think in many ways, I'm sort of a blank canvas, because in many ways, I'm just observing the world and the people around me and their characters an….
But actually making pictures to look like my pictures, I've done it for so long, I'm kind of used to it now. So at the beginning of the process, desi….
You must achieve the confidence of knowing that you possess absolute, unbending, unimpeachable integrity. Everyone must know that. Above all else, it….
I give the character a history and a full life; this way the tears come naturally for the character in whatever situation calls for tears. Also, some….
In New York, I much prefer playing older because as characters get older, they get more interesting..
Man is not made better by being degraded; he is seldom restrained from crime by harsh measures, except the principle of fear predominates in his char….
You know, a lot of those angry sort of Southern man characters that I've been doing are based on different people I might've had as, like, a soccer c….
In terms of style, I think the memoirist should have a novelist's skill and all the elements of a novelist's toolbox. When I read a memoir, I want to….
By examining characters lighting the way to hell, as it were, are readers spared iniquity? Are stories a heeded warning, or merely an entertainment? ….
There is a Steve [Jobs] that Apple would like to actually present to the public. They have a character, Steve, and they want to keep that story going….
How hard you work at correcting your faults reveals your character..
I don't think there's a way to replace Stabler. The most I could hope for is to come and try and develop a character who is interesting, who is inter….