#characters

I want to keep doing different things. I'd like to do a more personal, dramatic movie next, I think. But as long as it's about characters and good writing and good parts for actors, that's what's important. ↗

— Tony Goldwyn

#characters #different #different things #doing #dramatic

You've either got to find a way to make your continuing characters insteresting without making them maudlin or overwrought, or you've got to put more emphasis on the suspects. ↗

— Jane Haddam

#continuing #either #emphasis #find #got

Every actor will tell you it's so much more fun to play the bad guy because usually those characters are more complex and more broad and more interesting, and have more sides to them. ↗

— Michael Vartan

#bad #bad guy #because #broad #characters

I plot the first 5 or 6 chapters quite minutely, and also the end. So I know where I am going but not how I'm going to get there, which gives characters the chance to develop organically, as happens in real life as you get to know a person. ↗

— Joanna Trollope

#am #chance #chapters #characters #develop

In independent film you tend to have stories that involve more of a community, and the smaller characters are important to the story. ↗

— David Morse

#community #film #important #independent #independent film

My characters are not plastic. ↗

— Karen Kingsbury

#plastic

Dreams are the touchstones of our characters. ↗

— Henry David Thoreau

#dreams #touchstones #dreams

Writing is hard work, and if anything's true about the process, it's that fact that a good story is hard to find and even trickier to get on paper. What's less romantic than staring alone at a blank screen? And edgy? I've changed the cat little because I didn't know what my characters were going to say next. ↗

— Adam Johnson

#story #writer #writing #change

I always think it's really hard if you are Asian or Chinese to be really in Hollywood. There are not so many really great characters for you. ↗

— Ziyi Zhang

#asian #characters #chinese #great #hard

All the characters in my films are fighting these problems, needing freedom, trying to find a way to cut themselves loose, but failing to rid themselves of conscience, a sense of sin, the whole bag of tricks. ↗

— Michelangelo Antonioni

#characters #conscience #cut #failing #fighting