Famous Quotes & Sayings

Monica Bellucci

I like to do on screen what I'm not in life. In life, I'm much more weak and insecure, and so then you know I like to play characters that are stronger than me.

Mike Birbiglia

What I always studied in screenwriting from my mentor John Glavin was that the most interesting characters are characters with shades of gray.

Kim Edwards

I've always set my stories in places I know well. It frees me up to spend more imaginative time on the characters if I'm not worrying about the logistics.

Adam Nelson

They do a great job packaging it. They've got some great characters routinely in the running for the big money.

Alice McDermott

For me, having characters who are part of a faith then allows me to talk about how that faith either works or fails them without having to attack the institution.

Cassandra Clare

I think that 'City of Heavenly Fire' is definitely a book where all the characters are tested to their limits, and they have to make really significant choices about who they are and who they wanna be.

Connie Willis

When you've written your characters into a corner, you just hand the manuscript over to your partner and make her fix it.

Mark Billingham

When you think of a great twist or a red herring or a way of misdirecting the reader, it is good, but you know that they are just tricks at the end of the day, and the way to keep interest is to write characters that people care about.

Hayden Schlossberg

A lot of times in movies, especially in sequels, the characters become caricatures and just sort of improv machines and joke machines, rather than people you can actually connect to.

Rick Elice

There is no pit orchestra. The musicians are essentially characters in the show. That was a big idea from Des. And it set a structure within which we were able to write the show.

Ray McKinnon

With writing fiction, I'm either not courageous enough or just not suited for telling truths in a more conventional way. As an actor, I inhabit those characters as I'm writing them.

David Walliams

We're going to make another series with lots of new characters and old characters together.

Tim Crouch

It's important to find characters that share sympathy with a young audience, not just in the story but their role in the world.

Harlan Coben

Sometimes even when the book is over I don't know who's good and who's bad. It's really more interesting, I think, to write about gray characters than it is to write about black and white.

Paul Bloom

I have my own difficulty with movies in which the suffering of the characters is too real, and many find it difficult to watch comedies that rely too heavily on embarrassment; the vicarious reaction to this is too unpleasant.

Greg Berlanti

There were only a couple of Marvel characters I read. I read 'Iron Man.' I have a lot of those. And this was the time they tried X-Factor out. I was never an X-Men person, but I was like, 'Let me check out X-Factor.' I was more of a DC guy in general.

George Tillman, Jr.

As the director, I try to go in and know as much as I can about the material. I really try to go in and understand what all the characters are about, what the movie's going to look like.

Liev Schreiber

When you have this structure of a stranger in a strange land, it is essential that the place and characters be really authentic.

We think we've got great stories and characters that will lend themselves to great standalone experiences, and that's the way we're focusing on it.