#characters

I choose material instinctually - at the heart of it are characters that I feel are fresh and original, and allow for an opportunity to, I suppose, explore uncharted ground. ↗

— Kathryn Bigelow

#characters #choose #explore #feel #fresh

A novelist's characters must be with him as he lies down to sleep, and as he wakes from his dreams. He must learn to hate them and to love them. ↗

— Anthony Trollopel

#dreams #hate #love #novelist #sleep

But the West of the old times, with its strong characters, its stern battles and its tremendous stretches of loneliness, can never be blotted from my mind. ↗

— Buffalo Bill

#blotted #characters #loneliness #mind #never

I came across awful characters when I got some kind of status and came to Hollywood. Then you have directors trying to sleep with you, assuming that you will do things because of the way you dress. ↗

— Stacey Dash

#assuming #awful #because #came #characters

Before I thought there was a common denominator between my films - as if all my characters were sisters - but I'm not so sure now. ↗

— Juliette Binoche

#between #characters #common #common denominator #denominator

I sometimes feel like I could do another job. Anything. Maybe because as an actress you're playing different characters, everything feels possible. ↗

— Juliette Binoche

#another #anything #because #characters #could

I've never thought of my characters as being sad. On the contrary, they are full of life. They didn't choose tragedy. Tragedy chose them. ↗

— Juliette Binoche

#characters #choose #chose #contrary #full

Portraying emotionally ill characters gives me the chance to really act. ↗

— Leonardo DiCaprio

#chance #characters #emotionally #gives #ill

I'm not particularly interested in playing characters that think the way I do. ↗

— Cate Blanchett

#i #i do #interested #particularly #playing

Somebody like Mailer brings to that role everything that he stands for. The types of characters that I gravitate towards, the types of icons, tend to have a heavy physicality in that way. ↗

— Matthew Barney

#characters #everything #gravitate #heavy #i