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.
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.
I wasn't a kid who moved out from Iowa with aspirations of becoming a famous star - I was intrigued by the idea of filmmaking and by the idea of what it would be like to play a character in a movie.
My first time playing a main character was in 'Seventeen Years.' It was directed by famous Sixth Generation director Zhang Yuan, but it wasn't a large commercial film.
None of my characters are rich or famous, and the situations they find themselves in could happen to anyone.
Faith is deliberate confidence in the character of God whose ways you may not understand at the time.
I can relate to historical characters or imaginary ones. It doesn't matter if a story takes place in the future or in the present, as long as the story is compelling.
The fact is I'm choosy, but mainly about a man's character. He has to be interesting, funny and clever. I don't even mind if he's not very good-looking.
Our characters were antiseptic but we weren't. And if you remember what we did on BATMAN, as the scripts were written very funny, we played them very straight.
I had to audition for the part of Jnior, and I wanted the role terribly because I knew it was a great character. This guy is a wonderful, funny, mean old guy.
Being funny with a funny voice is more my comfort zone, a broader character that I try to humanize, a kind of silly or wacky persona that I try to fill in.
It's funny, because in drama school, my greatest strength was my range. So my early career was like that: I played all kinds of different characters.
They did that little thing on South Park, and they mentioned my name and had a character of me judging a Halloween contest. It was really funny. That made me the coolest aunt on earth.
