I don't like drawing characters facing right. If I tried to do that at a book signing, I'd have to pencil it first.
Tom Hanks, who starred in 'The Da Vinci Code,' turns out to be related to a number of the historic characters that feature in 'The Da Vinci Code,' including William the Conqueror and Shakespeare.
In order to appeal to a wider audience on network in order to survive, generally your characters need to be, at a base level, a little bit more likable.
So here I am writing my zombie story and my lead character decides to betray me.
Sometimes I hear a voice - sometimes it's the voice of someone I know. And sometimes that leads to a character, which leads to a story.
What I do is put my characters into situations that are so precarious there is no way to get out. And then I figure how to get them out.
In a novel, on the other hand, you not only have to describe the rooms, but the clothes, the characters and what they are thinking. It's a much more in-depth process.
'The Color Purple' is the kind of character piece that a director like Sidney Lumet could do brilliantly with one hand tied behind his back.
When I was fifteen, I got a Tiffany's necklace from the producers of 'Game of Thrones' with my character's name Sansa engraved on it.
I'm not really a plot writer - I'm more interested in the characters and sort of small events that propel the story forward.
I don't like to do too much psychological research because it might turn a character into a patchwork.
My first job is to write the characters as full and authentic people as well as I can.
Once God wrote a story that shook the heaven to the very core. Love was the only language used; You and I were the only characters.
I've learned that in the theater the story is everything. Every lyric, every line and every musical gesture has to propel the journey of a given character or the overall plot.
I'll always be back to the stage. I have no doubt that the stage will always call me back. There will always be a character that no one else can play, and I'll be back to play it.
I have zero idea of what my involvement with 'The Lying Game' is going to be. I'm a character that may or may not be permanently involved.
[A]nd you may know how little God thinks of money by observing on what bad and contemptible characters he often bestows it." [ (1865)]
Algebra looked like Chinese characters to me, and I could never get into reading Shakespeare. I just did not get it.
All the important drawings I do myself. Every single character is also done by me.
Switching the public's perception and view of me was, and still is, kind of a challenge to get them to see me outside of a character that I played on TV for so long.
I don't think anyone can do any character that doesn't have at least some ounce of themselves in it. You are who you are, and your brain is drawing on things that you've experienced.
