I have been reading the press more regularly than others over 50 years and it seems to me that there are things that have changed in the press that have changed its character.
The superior man acquaints himself with many sayings of antiquity and many deeds of the past, in order to strengthen his character thereby.
All action is for the sake of some end; and rules of action, it seems natural to suppose, must take their whole character and color from the end to which they are subservient.
There's so much of, it could have been a very critical examination of what happened, and really the emotional lives of the people involved sort of carry the characters forward.
With films, you get to develop a set of characters, and then, at the end of the film, you have to throw them away.
I don't have to live the lives of my characters to write about them. It's about really putting yourself in their shoes.
Having plastic surgery is pathetic. You don't look any younger; you look well for a bit until it starts going again, but it takes all the character out.
I'm in this new Showtime series called 'Ray Donovan.' I play this guy Stu Feldman who runs Paramount Pictures, so the total opposite to this character.
They said that Seven was a former Borg who had been human and had been assimilated. She was regaining her humanity. I had no interest in this character.
'Game of Thrones' is taking dense novels and trying to shrink it all down to a slightly manageable series in the sense that there are so many characters and so many locations.
Two days later I got a call that they wanted to try out the character for seven episodes. Eleven years and 22 Emmys later, Cliff was still sitting at that bar.
Neither sex, without some fertilization of the complimentary characters of the other, is capable of the highest reaches of human endeavor.
There is no such thing as an impartial jury because there are no impartial people. There are people that argue on the web for hours about who their favorite character on 'Friends' is.
In the world of your story, your outline is like the Ten Commandments. Unfortunately, your characters are all Atheists.
In my first film, Five Corners, I played a very scary, violent crazed character, and it exposed me to a lot of directors.
I'm always aiming for some magic in films if I can find a mystical quality either in a song or in a moment or a character's intention.
I do have characters who are more well known than I am, which suits me fine.
A lot of Texans go up to New York and stay there forever. If there are any two places with more individual characters, I don't know them.
I think the idea of creating a character from scratch, one that has not been done in a novel or an existing story, is immensely exciting, terrifying and ultimately rewarding.
A certain luxury when you get to writing a novel is to have the space to have your characters just banter.
Working on a sitcom and improv improves your comedic chops. If you do it long enough, the one thing you learn to do is listen to the other characters.
