Well, honestly, the films I personally like to go see are smaller, more character-driven pieces, so that's why the movies I've made have been smaller, more character-driven movies.
'True Blood' differs from 'Six Feet Under' in that there are way more characters and plot-lines, but fundamentally it's still about the characters and their emotions.
I think it's very important to write a demythologized woman character. My characters are flawed. They are no better than they should be.
Well, you know, what's better? To play a character who stays stuck in the same baggage year after year, or to play a character who gets beyond that and goes to a new level?
If you create an act, you create a habit. If you create a habit, you create a character. If you create a character, you create a destiny.
I don't start with the characters. I start with the series of events that will provide the conflict and how it can be resolved. Characters are incidental.
A person’s reputation is like a glass panel that remains protected till it remains fitted in the strong and durable frame of the good character.
Achievers are Believers in Commitments and Dreams. But, the great achievers believe in their own and others' good CHARACTER too.
In some ways, what I learned is that you can take a character and breathe with them, and it's up to the audience to interpret rather than you putting moral stamp on the character.
I wasn't terribly aware of Catwoman. She was a DC comics character and as a kid, I wasn't terribly fond of the DC comics characters. I was a Marvel boy.
I think every leading man wants to be a character actor, and every character actor wants to be a leading man.
Action is the pulse of any good story, but the character is the heart. If the action has no consequence to the character, the story loses heart.
And I have been able to establish this sort of decent reputation as being a decent character actor.
I think action should be revealed through character, so if you have a plot problem, it's probably a character problem.
All of the actors that have served to me as inspiration over the years have been those more associated with dramatic work who have, in turn, been able to embody their characters and lose themselves in those characters that they create.
If you do a scene and you really like a character in it or a premise in it to write it down and to work on it so that you can have five or six characters that you can pull out in an audition.
To be honest, I am somebody that, as long as I have a character, it doesn't really matter if it's comedy or drama - I think timing is important in either. But for me, it's all about having a character to work on.
I research the role, and if it's a literary character, I read the book, and if it's an historical figure, I research documents and biographies. If it's a fictional character, I work off the script.
My approach to the work is the same, whether I had the lead or a supporting role. I consider myself a character actor in the true sense of the word. Unless I'm doing my autobiography, I'm playing a character.
We're showing kids a world that is very scantily populated with women and female characters. They should see female characters taking up half the planet, which we do.
The characters that aren't what they seem to be or women who are stronger than people give them credit for or characters you underestimate, I always think are really interesting because there are so many possibilities with them.
