“Cut like crazy. Less is more. I've often read manuscripts - including my own - where I've got to the beginning of, say, chapter two and have thought: “This is where the novel should actually start.” A huge amount of information about character and backstory can be conveyed through small detail. The emotional attachment you feel to a scene or a chapter will fade as you move on to other stories. Be business-like about it.” FeelsShouldTwoCharacterStoriesMovingMy OwnNovelCuttingCrazyInformationEmotionalHugeAmountSceneIncludingDetailsAttachmentFadesChaptersManuscriptsLess Is MoreSmall Details Author:Sarah Waters
“You can go crazy and play solos in the right place, and that's great because it can intensify and bring an emotional lift. But the thing is you don't want to get in the way of the song.” WayWantPlaySongCrazyEmotionalLiftsSoloRight Place Author:Benmont Tench
“For me, the best characters are the ones that feel fully formed inside and out, so I try to have a very clear vision of exactly what they would wear, top to bottom, who they are, what their backstory is, what their family situation is, who are their friends, just creating as much of a three-dimensional character [as possible]. Because I think you could do a very broad character, but as long as there's some emotional truth to them you can get away with really crazy things.” ThinkingFeelsTryingLongCharacterThreeSituationVisionClearCrazyEmotionalCreatingBottomGet AwayBroadsCrazy ThingsClear VisionBest Character Author:Nick Kroll
“My favorite kinds of stories are the ones that have these big crazy genre hijinks and then a real honest, meaty, emotional story where we're watching a character grapple with some real things.” KindRealCharacterStoriesBigsCrazyHonestEmotionalMy FavoriteGenreReal Things Author:Greg Pak
“I experience psychic phenomena, so people think I must be crazy. But you have to be accessible and intelligent to be a good actor. I might not have gotten the best grades in school, but I have a very high level of emotional intelligence. You have to be open to receive.” PeopleThinkingMightSchoolActorsLevelsCrazyEmotionalIntelligentGradesEmotional IntelligencePsychicsHigh LevelBeing CrazyGood ActorsGrades In School Author:Christine Ebersole
“It's so fun to be on a show where we're all on our toes, all the time. We're constantly texting each other and calling each other while we're reading and go, "Oh, my gosh, I can't believe you do that! Holy cow! This is crazy!" Sometimes it's a bit more procedural. Sometimes it's a bit more emotional. We get the best of all genres, in one little package.” BelieveLittlesI CanSometimesShowsReadingFunBitsCrazyEmotionalHolyCallingGenreCowsToesPackagesTextingOh My Gosh Author:Devin Kelley
“You're looking, moment by moment and scene by scene, how you can tell the most interesting story. So, we had this great short and we knew that we had a story about a boy and his dog. Because we had that pure emotional core, we could go on crazy tangents and always come back to Victor and Sparky. When I wrote in stuff like Weird Girl and the cat poop, Dutch Day and the windmill, it felt like it was part of Tim's universe.” MomentsStoriesGirlUniverseFeltStuffInterestingBoysCrazyDogEmotionalGoes OnScenePureCatCoreMost InterestingDutchPoopWindmillsInteresting StoriesGreat Short Author:John August
“The transformation is the most excruciating pain that you could possibly imagine, so you're mimicking this grand mal seizure while wearing crazy latex make-up. It's so bizarre. It's really out there. The most challenging part is the emotional and physical side of it.” PainSidesChallengesImagineCrazyEmotionalTransformationBizarreSeizuresMimickingLatexExcruciating Pain Author:Sam Huntington
“I'm not crazy about being out of control, and I get emotional when things are unclean. When things are out of order. When things are messy. Because I lived in a mess as a child.” ChildrenOrderCrazyEmotionalMessMessy Author:Bryan Cranston
“Music has this emotional thing to it, and it touches people in crazy ways. The power of having that power is something that, once you have it, you don't want it to ever end.” PeopleWayWantEndsCrazyEmotionalEmotional Things Author:Gwen Stefani
“After three days of shooting with Donald [ Sutherland], I was the only one he worked with for the first three days of the movie [The Winter Of Our Discontent] because of the crazy schedule. We [shot] a lot of this stuff, some of it incredibly intense and emotional. We had never had a conversation during that whole time. We didn't have time.” FirstsWholeThreeStuffCrazyEmotionalConversationShotsWinterIntenseShootingSchedulesDiscontent Author:Richard Masur
“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