Back in the day I wanted to be a James Bond girl and I got really close to it too, but I didn't. But now it's just really about enjoying who I work w….
The writer must always leave room for the characters to grow and change. If you move your characters from plot point to plot point, like painting by ….
Writing is akin to method acting. Before the writer can render a fully convincing world, he or she must inhabit that world, and every major character….
Writing is rewriting. A writer must learn to deepen characters, trim writing, intensify scenes. To fall in love with the first draft to the point whe….
When I try to understand somebody, create a character, I fall into them. When I think writers are telling me what to think, I get harrumphy..
Strength of body, strength of mind, strength of character, qualities to be admired in any person..
This is a tried and true genre directed by a guy who's famous for character work. This could take a genre picture and lift it and elevate it. That wa….
You try to become the character that you're working with. So for me, I try to block out the cameras and try to trick my mind that this is actually ha….
I do think, in the future, headlamps are probably going to be smaller, slimmer. I also think that a lot of designers will start playing around with t….
Dr. Okun. Who's named after a special-effects guy named Jeff Okun, who had done Stargate for Roland Emmerich and Dean Devlin, who did Independence Da….
You come before me this morning with clean hands and clean collars. I want you to have clean tongues, clean manners, clean morals and clean character….
It just sort of suggested a very specific kind of impudence like this little-man syndrome. Chucky has this Napoleon complex. He's a little guy with a….
Too much me is annoying under any circumstance, but too much me in an essay, however personal, would mar the art. My "character" in the essay is more….
I love the feeling I get when I'm on a set; I love reading the scripts, playing the characters, getting to be someone else..
Sometimes you'll see interviews about an actor who was asked to hit the weight room to develop his body for the character, and you hear them complain….
The motive for criticizing myth, that is, its objectifying representations, is present in myth itself, insofar as its real intention to talk about a ….
For me, the challenge of a period film is that, unlike a contemporary film where the character can be very free-form when it comes to the acting, the….
Animation taught me to draw quickly and clearly and to communicate a character's feelings through his or her body language and facial expressions..
The essential thing is action. Action has three stages: the decision born of thought, the order or preparation for execution, and the execution itsel….
If you’re reading to find friends, you’re in deep trouble. We read to find life, in all its possibilities. The relevant question isn’t ‘Is this a pot….
I am often tired of myself, and I have a notion that by travel I can add to my personality, and so change myself a little. I do not bring back from a….