I live intimately with my characters before starting a book. I cut out pictures of them for my wall. I do time lines for each major character and a time line for the entire novel: What is going on in the world as my characters struggle with their pro...
I like characters like Ignatius Reilly in 'A Confederacy of Dunces' and Ricky Gervais's character in 'The Office.' They think one thing about themselves, but the truth is as far from that as it can be. So I began to think about how to put that kind o...
It makes it fun. When an actor plays a character, you want what that character wants. Otherwise it doesn't look authentic. So I really want to defeat Jimmy - I mean Jimmy as the character.
Do you remember the books from our childhood? Those were you could decide yourself what the character should do next? I always loved those books, getting to decide what will happen, being responsible for it. But did you ever decided for something, fl...
To change and change for the better are two different things
To change and to change for the better are two different things.
Every tale can be told in a different way.
Different people in different parts of the world can be thinking the same thoughts at the same time. It's an obsession of mine: that different people in different places are thinking the same thing but for different reasons. I try to make films which...
As long as a character doesn't die, the character can always come back.
Some of the best characters are the most flawed characters.
I've always considered myself a character actor.
The female characters in 'Peep Show' are not 'strong': they are idiots. As idiotic as the men.
I do have food in my books. Different people eat different ways.
Internet freedom is a bit of a Rorschach test: it means different things to different people.
Equality is not in regarding different things similarly, equality is in regarding different things differently.
You have to get along with people, but you also have to recognize that the strength of a team is different people with different perspectives and different personalities.
Between man and woman there is little difference, but vive la difference.
Character is easier kept than recovered.
Everyone admires his own character.
My job is to play many different roles with all sorts of different backgrounds and orientations.
A different attitude accompanied with a different approach will always bring forth a different result.
