God is a freaking character, with enough foibles, tantrums, and paradoxical behaviors to supply a thousand screenplays. But who do you cast?
Completely committed to adapting 'Fifty Shades of Grey'. This is not a joke. Christian Grey and Ana: potentially great cinematic characters.
People realize that Salieri is not the man we saw in the Amadeus movie. That man had no talent. It was a great movie, but the Salieri character was a big fiction.
I think it's really great to be able to stick with a character for a long period of time. It's not like you have one shot, and that's it.
The great lesson in theatre is that you live the story every night, and that is a wonderful vehicle for getting to the richest places in a performance or investing a character with the richest life.
The great thing about acting is that you get to be a lot of different things in one lifetime. You get to explore different personalities and characters.
The thing about the classics it that they are such great characters, they have a great deal of depth and different layers to them. I always find that very stimulating to play.
One of the great things about my mother is she really valued people's character more than what they did.
The great thing about films is that you have access to this whole world of experts who teach you the skills your character's supposed to have.
One of the great things that you should never do that I learned from John Malkovich is to never judge your characters.
Sometimes making a story is as easy as putting two characters in a room and seeing what happens. So, imagine a great white shark and a giant squid in the same bathroom.
That's the great thing about the 'Sin City' movies. Each little slot is incredibly meaningful, and each character has their own moment.
One of the great things and one of the horrible things about the American character is this extraordinary optimism and arrogance that everything will continue to be great and keep looking up.
I'm not writing great literature. I'm writing commercial fiction for people to enjoy the stories and to like the characters.
The great advantage of having a bear as a central character is that he can combine the innocence of a child with the sophistication of an adult.
Our Nation is in great need of young men and women of character to lead in every arena of our society.
What's great about being a character actor is you know that you can survive forever. It's not about the gloss of your eyebrows.
I always think it's really hard if you are Asian or Chinese to be really in Hollywood. There are not so many really great characters for you.
To me, there are things you're good at and things you're not so good at. For some reason, I'm good at darker characters. It has to do with how you look.
With action films, it's great if it's not just driven by action, but by a good story and interesting characters, as well. Though, there's nothin' like kicking butt!
Storytelling is storytelling. Good stories need compelling characters and interesting conflicts. That's the bottom line no matter what medium you're writing for.
