I had always wanted to lend my voice to a character. I did a voice for this video game, called 'Fallout 3,' and that was really fun.
If I'm going to do something, I'm going to do it well. That's just my character, that's just the way it is with me.
When I'm creating a character, I don't see it so much as playing someone else as just playing a specific part of myself under certain circumstances.
Note too that a faithful study of the liberal arts humanizes character and permits it not to be cruel.
The English have always been greedy for news of times past, with that mixture of fatalism and melancholy which is part of the national character.
No novel is a clone of any preceding one, though with a background cast of characters and things that has grown to thousands, there are many familiar aspects.
When I read a script, I try not to judge the characters. I try to have an open mind and really see what it makes me feel.
I remember playing with some friends and being aware that I was acting as I was playing with them - I would think of a character and pretend to be someone else.
I never base characters on real people. There are people who do that but I really don't know how to do it.
I'm very comfortable writing in the first person; it dives into the character in a way that's difficult if you're writing in the third person.
In 'There Will Be Blood,' my character was someone who was an actor himself almost. He had a rehearsed quality about him. He was a performance artist in a way.
Bad guys are complicated characters. It's always fun to play them. You get away with a lot more. You don't have a heroic code you have to live by.
We all have these tendencies in us that could go this way or that. I think that's the real key in writing. To look at a character without judgment.
The one thing I could do was voices and impersonations and weird characters, and there was really no call for that, except on Saturday Night Live.
I didn't go out looking for negative characters; I went out looking for people who have a struggle and a fight to tackle. That's what interests me.
Don't resist the urge to burn down the stronghold, kill off the main love interest or otherwise foul up the lives of your characters.
Actors will never be replaced. The thought that somehow a computer version of a character is going to be something people prefer to look at is a ludicrous idea.
Whatever you may think of Mrs. Clinton as a character, I think she believes quite strongly in public service.
I'm interested in getting deep into a person's consciousness and doing so in ways in which the narrator is secondary to the character's own thoughts.
You can draw the character out of pets, and you can make them your friends, but they are animals, and they have to be allowed to live the lives of animals.
Tick is a cartoon character, I don't know if you're familiar with him. This is the third step in his evolution. Comic book to cartoon to, now, live-action.
