My father worked two jobs. He assembled speakers during the day, and then he sold real estate at night and on weekends. And then he eventually, when he was in his mid-50s, became a full-time real estate salesman.
Business students are very oriented to playing a role in the real world and accomplishing something, not training themselves to be scholars and contribute to the literature. Teaching in that kind of environment has focused me much more on the real wo...
I always look at films as real stories with real people in real situations. That's why I struggle with the whole notion of calling someone the 'good guy' or the 'bad guy', because I think we all have potential to do good things and all have the poten...
In January 2012, Google Plus started to roll out support for nicknames and pseudonyms, but those registering with a name other than their real-life one must be able to prove that they have been using that alternative name elsewhere, either on the Web...
I wish what I do was all real. Some of it's real, some of it's an illusion and I try to blur the line between both, but unfortunately I've got to be honest with you. Taking a $1 bill and turning it into a $100 - unfortunately it's not real.
Words are what sticks to the real. We use them to push the real, to drag the real into the poem. They are what we hold on with, nothing else. They are as valuable in themselves as rope with nothing to be tied to.
There's something magical about spending a Sunday night watching real people at a deli, then watching fake people pretending to be real on TV, then engaging in (arguably) false interaction with (arguably) real people on the Internet. Never at any pri...
Robots are interesting because they exist as a real technology that you can really study - you can get a degree in robotics - and they also have all this pop-culture real estate that they take up in people's minds.
In horror, character development is often pushed aside in favor of the shock value. The best genre movies to me are movies like The Shining. You had a connection to the characters in that film.
I never like to refer back to anything I've done when I'm working on a character, even if that character has the same occupation.
I definitely have character arcs in mind for each character unless I kill them.
No, I feel like my personality probably influenced the character, more than the character influenced me.
You're in everyone's homes every week as this character, and they feel like they know you, and then they start to really define you as this character that you portray.
I questioned everything. I didn't see a character developed in Platoon at all. The character in Blue Velvet was much more fascinating to me.
I don't categorize characters into one syllable. These are fully-rounded characters that I don't judge; I just play them.
You can't judge a character that you're playing, because then you're fighting against doing what the character's doing.
Playing Marcia was a double-edged sword; it always will be whenever you play a character like that. You will be known as that character forever.
I think if you find that you're making a judgment on the character, than your audience will make a judgment on the character.
Character is one of most precious parts of you. You can't get involved in things that will damage your character.
In my mind, every single female character I've written is plus-size.
You have to sort of see the way that the character behaves, and what the character says and does, and claim it in the same way that you claim anything, really.
