“What you can do with visual effects is enhance the look of the character, but the actual integrity of the emotional performance and the way the character's facial expressions work, that is what is going to be created on the day with other actors and the director.” WayLooksCharacterActorsCan DoEffectsEmotionalExpressionIntegrityDirectorsPerformancesVisualsFacialFacial ExpressionVisual Effects Author:Andy Serkis
“Certain songs I feel different people should be on different tracks, you know it's emotional. I put myself into characters for certain records.” PeopleKnowsFeelsShouldDifferentCharacterCertainSongRecordsEmotionalTrackDifferent Peoples Author:Kool Keith
“Always tell us where we are. And don't just tell us where something is, make it pay off. Use description of landscape to help you establish the emotional tone of the scene. Keep notes of how other authors establish mood and foreshadow events by describing the world around the character. Look at the openings of Fitzgerald stories, and Graham Greene, they're great at this.” WorldLooksCharacterHelpingStoriesUsePayEventsEmotionalSceneNotesMoodOpeningLandscapeToneDescriptionDescribing Author:Janet Fitch
“I don't make movies about issues. This is my same litmus test for all the movies I love: Is it a great character on a great emotional quest with a great emotional need? Do they overcome great emotional obstacles? Is it a fantastic story? I didn't set out to be a political activist. I'm just a human being who's moved by certain things, and if certain things break my heart, I set out to fix them.” IfsNeedsHumansHeartCharacterStoriesPoliticalCertainHuman BeingsLove IsBreakIssuesEmotionalMy HeartTestsOvercomingMovedObstaclesFantasticActivistQuestsGreat CharacterBreaking My HeartEmotional Needs Author:Kimberly Peirce
“I've always found that it's such an emotional experience, trying to find the good parts of a bad character or the bad parts of a good character, and in the end, most of these qualities are already there inside me.” TryingEndsCharacterFoundQualityEmotionalGood CharacterBad Character Author:Milla Jovovich
“Emotional, physical, and spiritual estrangement and ontological and religious doubt inform my personality, my thoughts, and my characters, which are, more often than not, masks for my own being and my being in the world - a world that frightens me insofar as I don't understand it.” WorldCharacterSpiritualReligiousMy OwnDoubtEmotionalPersonalityMaskMy ThoughtsEstrangement Author:Norman Lock
“If the show encourages an audience to ask the question, "Is this character's emotional response to this situation valid?," then that's a really good question to ask.” IfsCharacterShowsAsksSituationAudienceEmotionalResponseGood QuestionsEmotional Response Author:Charlie Cox
“In fact, I always assumed that most everything I read was true, to one degree or another. I couldn't articulate this fact until after I read Tim O'Brien's The Things They Carried and he discussed Happening Truth, Story Truth, and Emotional Truth. I always understood that the facts of The Sun Also Rises or On the Road were the facts as dictated by a certain narrative structure, but because the experiences of those characters echoed my own feelings about the world. I knew there was a Happening Truth behind them.” WorldCharacterFactsStoriesFeelingsCertainMy OwnBehindsSunEmotionalTruth IsDegreesHappeningsUnderstoodStructureNarrativeSun Also RisesNarrative StructureTim O Brien Author:Kevin Keck
“I had no idea what I was signing up for. I auditioned for some random character. I knew the sides were fake, but what they were trying to capture was an emotional toughness and a woundedness. I knew I liked the character. I didn't know who the character was, but I liked the spirit of the character.” KnowsTryingIdeasCharacterSpiritSidesEmotionalNo IdeaFakeCaptureSigningToughnessWoundednessSigning Up Author:Caity Lotz
“A great deal of it is mental, the ability to learn within the game, to perform at a high level - often with injury - and to weather the ups and downs of an emotional game through a 16-game season. Also, there is the willingness to prepare in the offseason, the film room, to learn the scheme and execute without a lot of repetition - that's football character.” CharacterFilmGamesAbilityLevelsRoomsDealsEmotionalFootballSeasonsWeatherInjuryWillingnessSchemesRepetitionUps & DownsHigh LevelOffseason Author:Brendan Daly
“If you have the opportunity to play these characters that are three-dimensional and very deeply rooted in an emotional level, they stay with you. They lived in you anyway, the density of them. It takes a while to realize how they've influenced you.” IfsPlayCharacterThreeOpportunityRealizingLevelsEmotionalRootedVery DeepDensity Author:Sally Field
“I'm not afraid of scars, be them emotional or otherwise. I think it builds character, and if it doesn't destroy you, I truly believe it makes us stronger.” IfsThinkingBelieveCharacterEmotionalStrongerScarNot Afraid Author:Nathan Parsons
“The Cry Baby character is so, like, based off of myself that it just really is just from personal experience. And when I was younger I was called a cry baby and made fun of for being super emotional and taking things way to personal.” WayMadeCharacterFunCryEmotionalBabyPersonal ExperiencesCry Baby Author:Melanie Martinez
“Characters exist in a flat line until we challenge them - sometimes they challenge themselves, sometimes they're challenged by other people, by nature, by robots, or by fungal infections in and around one's nether-country. Stories need conflict across the physical, emotional, intellectual and spiritual spectra. Accidents, betrayals, cataclysm, desperation, excess - these are the letters in the alphabet of conflict.” PeopleNeedsWritingCountrySometimesCharacterStoriesSpiritualChallengesLinesEmotionalConflictIntellectualLettersBetrayalAccidentsFlatsExcessDesperationRobotsAlphabetInfection Author:Chuck Wendig
“It's often hard to determine, especially in early drafts, whether or not a story has a bona fide complication. Remember this: A complication must either illuminate, thwart, or alter what the character wants. A good complication puts emotional pressure on a character, promoting that character not only to act, but to act with purpose.If the circumstance does none of these things, then it's not a complication at all - it's a situation. This situation, or setup, might be interesting or even astonishing, but it gives the story no point of departure.” IfsWantGivingWritingDoeHardCharacterStoriesMightRememberPurposeInterestingSituationEmotionalCircumstancesPressureDeterminePromotingAstonishingNo PointDepartureComplicationSetups Author:Monica Wood
“The failures of other genres to provide an emotional connection with some of their characters and narratives gives memoir a toehold.” GivingCharacterEmotionalConnectionsMemoirNarrativeGenreEmotional Connection Author:Mary Karr
“What I like about Paper Girls in particular is that because we're approaching it more from a female perspective, we're able to consider the emotional states of these characters a little bit more, and think more of their interiority.” ThinkingLittlesStatesCharacterAbleGirlBitsEmotionalParticularPerspectivePaperLittle BitFemale Author:Cliff Chiang
“Animators do amazing working translating and interpolating the characters [in the Planet of the apes], the facial performances. What we're creating on set - if you don't get it on the day, in the moment, on set, in front of the camera, with the director and the actors. The emotional content of the scene and the acting choices.” IfsMomentsCharacterChoicesActorsActingFrontsEmotionalPlanetsSceneDirectorsCreatingPerformancesCamerasTranslateApesFacialAnimator Author:Andy Serkis
“When I read scripts and when I read books, it's more of an emotional response and I was really drawn to these characters.” BookCharacterEmotionalResponseScriptsEmotional Response Author:Katie Holmes
“In the movie [Everybody Loves Somebody], the sister tells my character, "No, don't you want to be with someone?" I think the family - especially in this movie - they know that the reason that Clara doesn't want to have an emotional, intimate relationship is more because she was hurt so badly from heartbreak that she's then being closed off and cynical.” ThinkingKnowsWantReasonCharacterHurtEmotionalIntimateCynicalIntimate RelationshipsClaraWant To Be With Someone Author:Karla Souza
“The score is always the wonderful icing. The score tells you the emotional content of the film. What the characters don't say, the music can say.” CharacterFilmWonderfulEmotionalScoreIcing Author:Taylor Hackford
“I think thing that makes Batman so endlessly interesting is that he's one of the most flawed and deeply human characters, even though he seems completely the most inhuman and infallible in costume. Psychologically he's one of the most complicated in both his strengths and his weaknesses. For me, one of his great strengths and weaknesses is that confidence. His emotional self-protection is one of the things that makes him heroic and sacrificing; he doesn't have a personal life. He sacrifices those to be the best hero he can be.” ThinkingHumansSelfCharacterSeemsInterestingSacrificeEmotionalHeroWeaknessComplicatedProtectionBeing The BestHeroicPersonal LifeCostumesFlawedInfallibleInhumanStrength And WeaknessSelf ProtectionBest Hero Author:Scott Snyder
“Writing fiction lets you be a little more emotional and unguarded, a little freer. Writing fictional characters is also really different from writing about real people. In nonfiction, you can only say so much about the people you interact with. After all, they're actual people, their version of their story trumps yours. In a novel, you can build a character, using certain parts or impressions of someone you know, and guessing or inventing others, without having to worry that your guesses or memories or inventions are wrong.” PeopleWritingDifferentRealCharacterMemoriesWorryNovelEmotionalInventionImpressionFictional Character Author:Elif Batuman
“We know that we need to explore desire in fiction - many say that the only way a story exists is that a character feels a strong desire - and nature is the place where creatures act on their desires in the most pure way imaginable, so maybe nature also works as a metaphor for whatever emotional troubles my characters have to negotiate. I'm interested in my characters as survivors, and maybe that works best when the old-fashioned notion of humans surviving in wilderness is not too far away.” CharacterDesireStrongTroubleEmotionalMetaphorWildernessSurvivorFar AwaySurviving Author:Bonnie Jo Campbell
“I love characters that are going through turmoil. To be honest, I love characters with conflict. I love characters who are really going through an emotional journey; whether it's a super-dark-crazy journey or a really relatable guy.” CharacterGuyJourneyHonestEmotionalConflictBeing HonestRelatable Author:Aaron Paul
“I was always casting about for role models as a kid and the Star Trek was always available via reruns and also full of possibilities. I wanted to be like Spock because he was unflappable. I wanted to be like Kirk because he had magnetism and the ladies loved him. Bones was a grouch but he was sympathetic. The show worked like a boy band in that way... it had characters who embodied different psychic or emotional positions and that allowed me to see a great range of things.” DifferentCharacterKidsBoysPossibilityEmotionalBonesRole ModelsSympathetic Author:Adrian Matejka
“I think that what I do is a form of pathetic fallacy, the literary trope in which nature is in sympathy with the mood of the story. I connect the physical setting and props in the story to the emotional state of the characters.” ThinkingCharacterEmotionalMoodPatheticFallacy Author:Elizabeth Wein
“As a director you have to be at 30,000 ft objectively looking at everything, wondering if you're making the right objective, emotional, story, character choices. As the writer, while you're asking all of those same questions, you're also forced by the nature of what writing is to be looking at everything under a microscope. That's the difference between the two jobs.” WritingCharacterChoicesWonderEmotional Author:Alex Kurtzman
“I watched horror movies way too young and one of my favorite horror movies was The Shining. Jack Nicholson's character in that just bore a hole in my brain, his weird, maniacal controlled stuff. Obviously Mara in Village of the Damned wasn't an alcoholic and didn't have emotional, crazy outbursts. She was very non-emotional. But it was that sort of evil that I was tapping into.” CharacterEvilBrainCrazyEmotionalHorrorShiningMy Favorite Author:Lindsey Haun
“I really feel our job as actors is to find a human experience in the character. So, for me, genre comes second; it's about script and the emotional journey of that character. Genre definitely has an impact, but it has more of an impact on the way the character is expressed. We all have the same core emotions of love, jealousy, rage - it's just how they're expressed.” CharacterEmotionJourneyEmotionalRageHuman Experience Author:Sophie Cookson
“I believe that to create real-seeming characters, the writer must be willing to go on a voyage of self-exploration. It can be revealing and even painful to explore your own weakness, but it gives you genuine emotion. Characters in fiction come alive because of the believability of their emotional lives and that is what I strive to create.” GivingBelieveCharacterI BelieveEmotionEmotionalWeaknessStrivePainful Author:Sara Paretsky
“I have received emails from readers who have said that they were emotionally impacted by the books, and they feel they are more environmentally aware and energized to do more. So that's hopeful to me. It is at least evidence of what I'm trying to do - trying to convey very intense emotional experiences by being very close in on character points of view to make you feel it in your body. That's one way to get the point across, by evoking a visceral response.” TryingBookCharacterEmotionalEvidenceResponsePoint Of ViewIntenseHopeful Author:Jeff VanderMeer
“I'm being provided with some emotional ballast by giving me an intimate portrait of one character in particular in contrast to the collective. I'm fortunate that I had very sympathetic readers, but ordinarily - if a book makes you laugh too much, it shifts from "literature" to "entertainment."” GivingBookCharacterLiteratureLaughingEmotionalIntimateContrastSympathetic Author:Joshua Ferris
“It wasn't like this happy-go-lucky experience, shooting Norman movie. It was something I kind of had to, sort of dedicate a certain level of focus and energy to kind of just stay in this headspace that would allow me to access - because it's also a very emotional movie at times. This was the first time I ever played a real character, a fully fleshed out, dimensionalized, multi-faceted character, as opposed to a part. There's not very much opportunity for somebody of my age and my look, so for a character-driven piece like this to come along is a rare thing.” KindRealCharacterAgeOpportunityEnergyFocusEmotionalFirst Time Author:Dan Byrd
“A lot of readers ask me, "Do you ever get emotional while writing the book?" or "Did you cry when you killed this character?" And the truth is, no, I didn't. That's not really the way I approach it. I don't get emotional while writing, but then there are plenty of other authors who do.” WritingBookCharacterCryEmotionalTruth IsPlentyAsk Me Author:Victoria Aveyard
“I think sometimes people become quite emotional about the characters as well, and that's pretty cool that you can get that emotion out of people. And I think that's more my motivation than like, "Hey I want to be the funny guy, I want to be that famous funny guy." That doesn't sit as well with me as the idea of taking people on this ride and taking them into the illusion of the characters. That's much more exciting for me.” PeopleThinkingSometimesCharacterMotivationGuyEmotionEmotionalIllusionExcitingFunny Guy Author:Chris Lilley
“Some things are just really difficult to do. That's what I find hard. I usually can find a way to do a character to make it real and work. But sometimes it's a struggle sustaining that, because there's such a level of personal involvement and personal, physical, and emotional distraughtness.” RealSometimesCharacterDifficultStruggleEmotionalInvolvement Author:Alan Cumming
“I left things out - my motivations, my history, my emotional responses - because I am not good at understanding them or writing about them. I tried and it was generally boring and always unconvincing. Most importantly I wanted to try to place Afghans and Afghanistan in the foreground rather than my own character.” WritingTryingCharacterMotivationUnderstandingEmotionalResponseBoringAfghanistan Author:Rory Stewart
“Money is part of how we move through the world, what stores and restaurants we go into, whether we take a train to the airport or a taxi. Describing characters living in the real world requires describing them engaging with money. There are also so many emotional aspects to money - feelings of inadequacy, feelings of security. I am not sure if there needs to be more about money in fiction, but the absence of this aspect can make a story feel somehow frictionless and unreal.” WorldRealCharacterFeelingsMovingSecurityEmotionalTrainAbsenceNot SureReal WorldUnrealTaxiInadequacy Author:Akhil Sharma
“I definitely see the good in people. Certainly in my own life I strive to be somebody who is functional and well adjusted and can face conflict in a non-emotional and non-destructive way, and those are the people I try to surround myself with in my life. But as characters, they bore me.” PeopleWayTryingWellsCharacterFacesMy OwnEmotionalConflictStriveDestructiveSurroundBoresMy Own Life Author:Alan Ball
“With big, emotional roles it's very easy, especially if you've grown up in the American school of acting, to exploit your own pain. You have to be careful about that, because 9 times out of 10, your pain is not appropriate to the character.” IfsCharacterBigsSchoolPainEasyActingRolesEmotionalCarefulAppropriateBe CarefulExploits Author:Laura Linney
“I have a huge emotional attachment to characters I've created, especially the viewpoint characters.” CharacterEmotionalHugeAttachmentViewpoints Author:George R. R. Martin
“Love is the expression of one's values, the greatest reward you can earn for the moral qualities you have achieved in your character and person, the emotional price paid by one man for the joy he receives from the virtues of another.” MenLoveLifePersonsCharacterJoyValuesLiteratureLove IsQualityMoralVirtueEmotionalExpressionPaidRewardsOne ManMoral Character Book:Ayn Rand Reader Source: Ayn Rand Reader
“He has such a clear vision of exactly what he wanted out of each character, out of each set, out of each wardrobe change, out of each emotional beat, and action.” CharacterActionWantedVisionClearEmotionalBeatsWardrobeClear Vision Author:Ryan Reynolds
“I love telling stories. I love the intimacy between the writer and reader. When you write sketches it's over in two minutes. When you write a book the characters have to have a bit of emotional depth.” WritingTwoBookCharacterStoriesBitsMinutesEmotionalReaderDepthIntimacyTelling Stories Author:David Walliams