I sort of fall in love with every character I do; you have to understand how they became what they've become, whether they're the ugly kind or the very beautiful kinds of characters.
I like movies about people and movies with characters; that's what I'm drawn to as a person who likes to create these characters within the story, but I like it all, really.
I think successful movies that are based on books are their own thing. I think if you're too faithful, word by word, character trait to character trait, it can hurt the movie.
If the character is really well-rounded, and it's a really strong character, and if the writing is just fantastic, that's the thing that will hook me in, certainly.
Actors look for characters. If they read a well-written character, and if they think the director's not an idiot, they're going to sign up and do some acting.
I'm a character actor - always have been, always will be - and historically, character actors don't come into their own until later in their professional and chronological lives.
Any actor who judges his character is a fool - for every role you play you've got to absorb that character's motives and justifications.
First of all, the actor needs to get out of the character's way. You follow the character without judgment or prejudice or preconceived ideas.
What I truly get excited about is not the genre of a movie or the size of a part - it's character. I like to find characters.
I always thought there would be more interesting people at my wedding.
I'm not interested in making art unless I'm totally freaked out and worried people are going to hate it.
It bewildered Ig, the idea that a person could not be interested in music. It was like not being interested in happiness.
We think we are being interesting to others when we are being interesting to ourselves.
I have to make a lot of decisions that aren't in the best interests of individuals, whether they be owners, club executives, players.
My best advice to writers is get yourself born in an interesting place.
What interests me, and has always interested me, has been modernism.
I have considered the directing, actually. Not so much the writing. That is not really interesting, but the directing is really interesting to me.
There is already huge public interest in stage musicals.
If you ask questions that interest you, you'll get answers that interest your audience.
I'm not interested in people positioning me next to other artists.
Writers are interesting people, but often mean and petty.
