Whenever I work on a part, I look at the world through the filter of the character and I pick things they might use through my observations of real life.
I take in a lot of stuff from real life, movies, television, news and it all gets mixed in my head and somehow turns into a story idea.
I mean, I find things that happened in real life to be the funniest - things that you observe instead of crazy abstract things, you know.
Even though I make those movies, I find myself wishing that more of those magic moments could happen in real life.
I don't like when I watch a fight in a movie that's perfectly worded and very articulate. If you were able to be that composed, you wouldn't be fighting! Fighting in real life is sloppy.
I take stuff from real life and try to make a character out of it. And I try to live the world of the characters a little bit.
I remember - when I was little, I remember playing 'Tecmo Bowl,' and I would be so excited to be Bo Jackson in the game that I wanted to watch him play in real life.
Characters develop as the book progresses, but any that start to bore me end up in the wastepaper basket. In real life, we may have to put up with tedious people, but not in novels.
For years, I've felt that there's an inner cook in me just waiting to be unleashed. But I have to confess I'm having an awful lot of trouble finding her in real life.
Love to his soul gave eyes; he knew things are not as they seem. The dream is his real life; the world around him is the dream.
I've never turned into a bee - I've never been chased by a mummy or met a ghost. But many of the ideas in my books are suggested by real life.
Music is probably the only real magic I have encountered in my life. There's not some trick involved with it. It's pure and it's real. It moves, it heals, it communicates and does all these incredible things.
I'm not really gangsta. Not at all. I just write about them. It's fun to pretend, at least on paper. But in real life, not so much.
I can't wait to see The Grinch. It's so out of the world. Every time a movie like that comes out, I'm stoked. It's like real life.
The public saw my father right out of central casting. He looked the part, acted the part... he was the part! The real life Godfather.
It is proper netiquette to invite new friends in real life to connect with you on the internet. NetworkEtiquette.net
In real life, it's good Netiquette to limit yourself to a two drink maximum when social networking. NetworkEtiquette.net
You can shoo people away in real life, but not when they force their way in through the dream door.
In real life, espionage and sex have so little to do with one another that for all practical purposes they could be married.
Real relationship is gritty and earthy, the stuff that life is made of.
Acting can be the healthiest profession in the world, because it allows you to do things you can't do in real life. It allows you to understand more than just what life provides you.
