#characters

I sometimes wonder if the inability to find oneself makes one seek oneself in other people, in characters. ↗

— John Cazale

#find #i #inability #makes #oneself

Since it's based on my parents, it's more emotionally close to me than some of my more surreal plays. And then I like the balance of the comic and the sad. It should play as funny, but you should care about the characters and feel sad for them. ↗

— Christopher Durang

#balance #based #care #characters #close

I enjoy doing everything, comedy and drama. I just look for the characters really and what they offer. ↗

— Chiwetel Ejiofor

#comedy #doing #drama #enjoy #everything

This is a work of fiction. All the characters in it, human and otherwise, are imaginary, excepting only certain of the fairy folk, whom it might be unwise to offend by casting doubts on their existence. Or lack thereof. ↗

— Neil Gaiman

#certain #characters #doubts #excepting #existence

I know there are only so many characters I'll be able to play. ↗

— Ryan Gosling

#characters #i #know #many #only

I'm in the business to push it. I'm not likely to be attracted to characters I've already done. ↗

— Mark Harmon

#attracted #business #characters #done #i

It's also possible to have two third person singular points of view, as represented by two characters through whose eyes the story is told in alternating chapters, say. ↗

— Arthur Herzog

#chapters #characters #eyes #person #points

I like to take these unusual characters and then make them as normal as possible, because we all know that the tragedy and the abnormal always hides itself behind the normal. ↗

— Isabelle Huppert

#always #because #behind #characters #hides

I always start with characters rather than with a plot, which many critics would say is very obvious from the lack of plot in my films - although I think they do have plots - but the plot is not of primary importance to me, the characters are. ↗

— Jim Jarmusch

#always #characters #critics #films #i

One thing I hate in movies is when the camera starts circling around the characters. I find that totally fake. ↗

— Takeshi Kitano

#camera #characters #circling #fake #find