If the characters are not alive to me, it doesn't matter how good the sentences are. It just becomes all cake and no frosting.
As a media member, my goal is to inform the American fans of persons of character. It's a joy for me, either writing a good story or telling a story on video.
It's good to play something that's black and white, and a guy that sees right and wrong. I've never played a character like that.
Nice people with common sense do not make interesting characters. They only make good former spouses.
Our immigration system is a broken system that needs to be fixed. We need reform that provides hardworking people of good character with a real path towards citizenship.
Military leaders aren't made. They are born. To be a good leader, you have to have something in your character to cause people to follow you.
I have no issue with being a character actor. If you've been around enough that people are able to segregate you into that category, it means you're working. So that's good!
I couldn't tell you a good, bad or ugly pilot just from reading it, but I can tell you a character I want to play.
Obama is a very good actor. He knows how to play it. And he is very adept at creating this 'Obama' - this character who is there whenever the world needs something.
I think for everyone it's good to have your own personal work on a character and a film before you even start rehearsing, to have an inner life.
I'd like to guest star on 'Game of Thrones.' I love period pieces and dark material. I think the show has a good balance of that and some solid characters.
When you've got good writing, you can kind of give up all the research, in a way, and start just following the emotional integrity of the journey of your character.
In terms of writing characters or stories, at least initially, there's no difference between live-action and animation. A good story is a good story, whatever the medium.
Character is always my driving force. And to tell a good story and to provide an entertaining read.
I've gotten pretty good at leaving characters on the set. I go home and try to relax and regroup and be ready for the next day.
When I look at a character, whether he's good or bad, one scene or 10 scenes, I just have to find my way in.
The more intelligent the storytelling becomes and the deeper the character development, people will realize in film and television, like they do in real life, that human beings possess both good and bad.
Fear has disappeared. No more fear. In Asia, it is different. They've discovered again the fear and the psychology of the characters. Without psychology, the horror film doesn't exist.
Nixon represents that dark, venal and incurably violent side of the American character almost every other country in the world has learned to fear and despise.
I express things through characters because I have a fear that my own voice is irritating because that's been said to me.
If you play a real character who's famous and still alive, it makes things easier if you have the luck to have a good relationship with them.
