#hara

You have to understand the tone of the movie, because if it's supposed to be funny, it can be funny violent like the Home Alone stuff, but you have to really understand the tone of what you're doing and make the action work for that and for the character. ↗

— David R. Ellis

#alone #because #character #doing #funny

I always play these rodent type characters - skittish and hyper like a chipmunk. It's a complete act though. I'm a very normal person. ↗

— Ethan Embry

#always #characters #complete #hyper #i

Turkey, unlike chicken, has very elegant characteristics. It has more of a cache than chicken. Turkey is a delicacy, so it should be presented in such a way. ↗

— Todd English

#chicken #delicacy #elegant #more #presented

The only virtue a character needs to possess between hardcovers, even if he bears a real person's name, is vitality: if he comes to life in our imaginations, he passes the test. ↗

— Stephen Vizinczey

#between #character #comes #even #imaginations

The great thing about films is that you have access to this whole world of experts who teach you the skills your character's supposed to have. ↗

— Joseph Fiennes

#access #character #experts #films #great

I admire the world of the books and the characters that she's created, but I'm not an addict of Harry Potter. I don't feel possessive about it. ↗

— Ralph Fiennes

#addict #admire #books #characters #created

Yet as a director, I don't feel you have to identify with your characters as a requirement to make a movie. ↗

— David Fincher

#director #feel #i #identify #make

Action is character. ↗

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

#character

Judge the goodness of a book by the energy of the punches it has given you. I believe the greatest characteristic of genius, is, above all, force. ↗

— Gustave Flaubert

#believe #book #characteristic #energy #force

It's necessary to track characters all the way through an opera. If you're dealing with more than one or two characters, it's very easy to forget that the others have lives of their own that feed into the story. ↗

— Carlisle Floyd

#dealing #easy #feed #forget #into