#hara

To me, it all comes down to things being character-driven. It's hard for me to look beyond that. CG and all this cool stuff - so be it. But to me, it pretty much begins and ends with character-driven plots rather than technologically-driven plots. ↗

— Billy West

#being #beyond #character-driven #comes #cool

A conventional playwright tries to tell you more about the characters than they know about themselves. ↗

— Timothy West

#characters #conventional #know #more #playwright

I start with the story, almost in the old campfire sense, and the story leads to both the characters, which actors should best be cast in this story, and the language. The choice of words, more than anything else, creates the feeling that the story gives off. ↗

— Donald E. Westlake

#anything #best #both #campfire #cast

Once he became a series character, I made the conscious choice that he would never act like a series character, never wink at the reader, never pull his punches. Better for him, better for me. ↗

— Donald E. Westlake

#became #better #character #choice #conscious

The issue for my character, and the issue of the show is, how dirty do your feet have to get without suffocating yourself in the mud in order to get an inch of what you really want done? ↗

— Bradley Whitford

#dirty #done #feet #get #how

I was playing this horrible part. I didn't didn't want to play it because the character was an awful racist. But I'm glad I did it because I met Sidney Poitier. ↗

— Richard Widmark

#because #character #did #glad #horrible

The car is a character in the piece - I've never liked the car, I submitted to it's objectionable popularity. ↗

— Paul M. Glaser

#character #i #liked #never #objectionable

Style is the image of character. ↗

— Edward Gibbon

#image #style

I know some things when I start. I know, let's say, that the play is going to be a 1970s or a 1930s play, and it's going to be about a piano, but that's it. I slowly discover who the characters are as I go along. ↗

— August Wilson

#along #characters #discover #go #going

Character... is a habit, the daily choice of right over wrong; it is a moral quality which grows to maturity in peace and is not suddenly developed on the outbreak of war. ↗

— Charles Wilson

#choice #daily #developed #grows #habit