“I think Chris Weitz is an amazing director, and his sensibility - I wouldn't even know how to articulate it - it's just, he's a very sensitive, interesting guy.” ThinkingKnowsGuyInterestingKnow HowDirectorsSensitiveSensibility Author:Elizabeth Reaser
“Sometimes I'll be channel surfing or something, and I'll see a glimpse of something, and I'll quickly turn the sound down, and then what I look at, that's an interesting movie. But it's not me who made it. It's whoever that guy I was 10 years ago who made it.” YearsLooksMadeSometimesGuyTurnsSoundInterestingYears AgoDown AndMade ItGlimpseSurfingThat Guy Author:Andrew Niccol
“The bad guys are not typical, they are not just bad, they are interesting. They might be good or bad.” MightGuyInterestingBe GoodTypicalBad Guys Author:Jan de Bont
“A character on screen that's the 'good guy' or the 'bad guy,' they're never interesting. There's got to be an internal struggle, the duality is important to find.” ImportantCharacterGuyInterestingStruggleScreensInternalsBad GuysDualityGood GuyInternal Struggle Author:Bill Skarsgard
“Interesting characters are troubled characters. The only problem I've had in my business is very few people - unfortunately, very vocal - confusing the difficult role that I play with me. I play these guys, but I'm not like them. I've been accused of being difficult to work with.” PeoplePlayCharacterProblemGuyDifficultInterestingRolesConfusingAccusedVocalInteresting Characters Author:Val Kilmer
“It's interesting what former presidents do when they leave office. Bush is now working as a motivational speaker. And if you want to be motivated, who better to turn to than the guy who invaded the wrong country and started a depression.” IfsWantCountryGuyTurnsPresidentInterestingOfficeFormerMotivatedSpeakersMotivational Speakers Author:David Letterman
“I'm going to keep talking about what I think is interesting for my entire career. If you want to hear about how women do a lot of shoe shopping or how being married sucks, go see the guy who does jokes about that. But if you come to see my live show, there's going to be 20 minutes on religion for the rest of my life, probably. If that makes me a caricature, so be it.” IfsThinkingWantDoeShowsGuyInterestingTalkingCareersMinutesMarriedJokesShoesShoppingBeing MarriedCaricaturesKeep Talking Author:David Cross
“I liked the idea that my character was not gonna be the typical dumb guy that I play, typically. I also loved the fact that it was dealing with kind of adult-extended adolescence, which I think is always interesting - a bunch of people that don't wanna grow up.” PeopleThinkingKindIdeasPlayCharacterFactsGuyGrowsInterestingGrowing UpAdultsBunchDumbAdolescenceTypicalDumb Guy Author:Jim Gaffigan
“Man Ray... loved games and absolutely knew about the camera. It is interesting to note that, although I used him in only about 10 percent of the photographs and videotapes, most people think of him as omnipresent in my work. It irked me sometimes to be known only as the guy with the dog, but on the other hand it was a thrill to have a famous dog.” PeopleThinkingMenSometimesHandsUsedGuyGamesInterestingKnownDogPercentCamerasNotesPhotographWorking ItRaysThrill Author:William Wegman
“I'm drawn to the classic antihero, the guy who's probably made a bunch of mistakes and really has the capacity to go either way. That's the most interesting type of character for me to watch, to see what decisions they'll make. There's a lot of gray area there for a writer to explore.” WayMadeCharacterGuyDecisionInterestingMistakeWatchesTypeAreasCapacityBunchClassicGrayMost InterestingGray AreaAntiheroes Author:Kurt Sutter
“Well, I don't play heroes obviously. I never played the guy who gets the girl. It might be interesting to do a part where I was a father in a functional family.” WellsPlayMightGuyGirlFatherInterestingHero Author:Christopher Walken
“Once I decide to take on a role it's because I find that guy to be really interesting to watch and very compelling to play. And from that point on I can no longer judge him. I can only take on his point of view in order to play him effectively. And his point of view is often not mine.” I CanPlayGuyOrderInterestingViewsRolesWatchesMinesJudgingPoint Of ViewCompellingThat GuyReally Interesting Author:Ronald Perelman
“I think it's interesting being American, the expectations for an American guy, and the image that has to be projected. 'Oh, I can't wear pink,' that kind of stuff. There's none of that in Europe.” ThinkingKindI CanGuyStuffInterestingExpectationsEuropeAmerican Guys Author:Beck
“[Ed Grimley] lives in a retirement home in New Jersey. It's called the Retirement Home in New Jersey for Characters Who Were Interesting in the '80s for About an Hour. He's there with the Whiners, Gumby and Jon Lovitz's 'That's the ticket' guy.” CharacterHomeGuyHoursInterestingRetirementTickets80sJerseyNew JerseyWhinersRetirement Homes Author:Martin Short
“The most interesting guy I've ever played with was King Hassan of Morocco. I went over there on a trip in the early 1970s, and the King and I played five holes. I've never been that nervous in my life.” GuySportsInterestingFiveKingsHolesNervousMost InterestingMoroccoHassan Author:Lee Trevino
“I have done scenes as Harvey Two-Face. It's interesting. I won't tell you exactly what we're going for, but I think that I can say that it will use all of today's technology to create this character. He's going to be interesting, and I think that's what makes this character important in the movie-you get to see him as he was before, as in the comic books. Harvey is a very good guy in the comic books. He's judicious. He cares. He's passionate about what he loves and then he turns into this character. So you will see that in this film.” ThinkingI CanTwoImportantBookDoneCharacterUseCareTodayFilmFacesGuyTurnsInterestingTechnologySceneVery GoodPassionateComicComic BookGood GuyHarvey Author:Aaron Eckhart
“It's certainly more interesting for me as an actor, but I think it's also more interesting for the audience to see three-dimensional characters, rather than just a bad guy or a good guy.” ThinkingCharacterGuyThreeActorsInterestingAudienceBad GuysGood Guy Author:Nicholas Lea
“Some of the most interesting and happiest kids I've seen have lived with a lot of different adults, because a kid can go up to one guy and wear him out. And as soon as the adult gets tired, there are five other guys, or five other chicks to go and wear out, and the kid gets to be very bright - and tolerant, you know, with that many kinds of people around.” PeopleKnowsKindDifferentKidsGuyInterestingFiveAdultsTiredMost InterestingChicksOther Guys Author:Grace Slick
“The most interesting to me were Doctor Strange, because he was so mystic, and Thor, because that was really cool. I mean, I had never been able to relate to the idea of a bearded guy in the sky, you know, and I'd always really liked mythology, and with Thor, it was like Stan Lee was actually saying, "Yeah, it's okay, there really is this Nordic god, there really is something besides the bearded guy in the sky". So I loved that!” KnowsMeanIdeasAbleGuyInterestingSkyStrangeDoctorsOkayYeahMythologyRelateMost InterestingReally CoolMysticNordic Author:Trina Robbins
“It has to be said that the bad guys are often more interesting than the good guys because you get to indulge part of your nature that hopefully gets subsumed most of the time. But I just like playing interesting characters, and variety's the spice of that, as it is with life, I suppose.” SaidCharacterGuyInterestingVarietyHopefullyBad GuysIndulgeSpicesGood GuyInteresting Characters Author:David Tennant
“Guys who are larger than life and theatrical and deliciously unpredictable - they're far more interesting than the good guys most of the time. They have these psychological layers that an audience can really cling on to, become fascinated with, much more so than these true-blue, one-dimensional, square-jawed good guys.” GuyInterestingAudienceBluePsychologicalSquaresFascinatedLayersUnpredictableTheatricalGood GuyLarger Than Life Author:Ron Perlman
“Nobody wants to read about the honest lawyer down the street who does real estate loans and wills. If you want to sell books, you have to write about the interesting lawyers - the guys who steal all the money and take off. That's the fun stuff.” IfsWantWritingDoeBookRealGuyFunStuffInterestingStreetsHonestSellsLawyerStealingEstatesLoanFun Stuff Author:John Grisham
“And if I was going to go there – the only person you can really compare Batman to, of those characters, would be Iron Man, another rich guy who has the ability to make fantastic toys – so if you want to take Batman and Iron Man and put them in a battle, that’s an interesting battle. But if you want to take Christian Bale and Robert Downey Jr. and put them in a UFC fighting cage, Christian Bale will – to quote Full Metal Jacket – tear Robert Downey Jr.’s head off and sh-t down his neck.” IfsMenWantPersonsCharacterWould BeChristianGuyFightingAbilityInterestingRichTearsBattleFantasticCompareNecksIronMetalsToysCagesJacketsUfcIron ManRobert Downey Author:Matthew Modine
“My thing is, I like playing guys who have a really interesting internal monologue.” GuyInterestingInternalsReally InterestingMonologues Author:Lennie James
“I do, in fact, have a book club. I meet with a couple of guys once a month of a lunchtime discussion of some interesting text, usually, but not always, philosophical.” BookFactsGuyInterestingMonthsCouplePhilosophicalClubsDiscussionBook ClubSome InterestingLunchtime Author:David Liss
“You need to try to find a way to humanize your villains. Genuine villains, in real life, still have mothers and daughters and sisters, and they fall in love. They don't walk around with a big sign saying, "Bad guy," on their head. They think they're good guys. If you can play that, I think it makes it more interesting.” IfsThinkingWayNeedsTryingStillsRealPlayBigsMotherGuyFallWalksInterestingDaughterFalling In LoveReal LifeGenuineVillainBad GuysGood GuyMother And DaughterSign Sayings Author:Mark Strong
“I like to play complex characters and the duality, and trying to reach for the light, it's more interesting really. I've gotten to play so many types of guys and I just try to find the humanity in each one of them the best I can.” TryingI CanPlayCharacterLightGuyHumanityInterestingTypeComplexesDualityType Of GuyComplex Characters Author:Forest Whitaker
“'Saw VI' has a really interesting theme about the ripple effect. Everything you do affects the guy next to you, which affects the guy next to him, which affects her over here. And you might think that what you're doing is not that significant, but just the way you respond to other people makes the world the way it is.” PeopleThinkingWorldWayMightGuyNextInterestingSawsEffectsSignificantThemeReally InterestingRippleRipple Effect Author:Tobin Bell
“I do read some of the scripts from America and, even though the themes or subject of the film is very interesting, and some of the scenes are very interesting, there is a tendency that they have to explain everything. There will be no dilemma. This guy was evil, and this girl was very sweet. And in the end, we'd have to see eight endings because we'd also have to know what happened to the uncle. It's like, "Are you kidding me?!"” KnowsEndsAmericaFilmGuyGirlEvilInterestingHappenedSubjectsSweetSceneScriptsEightTendenciesThemeUnclesThis GuyVery InterestingDilemmaThis GirlVery Sweet Author:Mads Mikkelsen
“It's great to be able to play the bad guy role because you always get a lot to do, but I'm always looking at the why. How does a person get to that particular point? It's those little cogs in the wheel that make it interesting for me to play. Ultimately, I hope for the audience to be engaged with it because it is going to take a turn.” LittlesPersonsDoePlayAbleGuyTurnsInterestingRolesAudienceParticularEngagedWheelsBad GuysCogs Author:Jimmy Smits
“You have to be realistic about terrorism. Certain groups of people, certain groups, Muslim fundamentalists, Christian fundamentalists, Jewish fundamentalists, and just plain guys from Montana, are going to continue to make life in this country very interesting for a long, long time.” PeopleLifeLongCountryChristianGuyCertainInterestingGroupsLong TimeTerrorismRealisticVery InterestingMontana Book:Napalm & Silly Putty Source: Napalm & Silly Putty
“I'm not impressed by any cooks who can brag about a filet mignon. A guy who can take the neck of a shank or can use tripe to make into something delicious is really interesting to me; that's impressive.” UseGuyInterestingCooksNecksImpressedDeliciousImpressiveReally InterestingBragNot ImpressedShankTripeFilet Mignon Author:Anthony Bourdain
“The great thing about Burgess's work is the dichotomy of making the hero or anti-hero an immoral man. And that's what makes it interesting. Because, you know, you are sucked into kind of like this guy.” KnowsMenKindGuyInterestingHeroGreat ThingsImmoralThis GuyDichotomyAnti Hero Author:Malcolm McDowell
“Acting is primarily is where I want to go. But seeing how the visual effects guys work, and the special effects guys and the art department guys, how they work and seeing their visions is really interesting. I don't think those guys get the recognition they deserve.” ThinkingWantArtGuyInterestingActingVisionSeeingSpecialEffectsDeserveRecognitionVisualsDepartmentReally InterestingSpecial EffectsVisual Effects Author:James Phelps
“What intrigues me is that people kind of naturally want to label or pigeonhole the characters. They want to make it easy for themselves to go, "All right. There's the good guy, there's the bad guy, there's the girl. Okay, I get it now." But life isn't one-dimensional. The world isn't simply divided into good versus evil. I think we're all capable of both. So any time the hero does something I'm not crazy about, or the bad guy does something I can relate to, I'll find it more interesting.” PeopleThinkingWorldWantKindDoeI CanCharacterGuyGirlEvilEasyInterestingCrazyHeroCapableOkayLabelsRelateDividedVersusIntrigueBad GuysGood Guy Author:Alexander Skarsgard
“The interesting thing is how one guy, through living out his own fantasies, is living out the fantasies of so many other people.” PeopleLifeMotivationalGuyInterestingFantasyInteresting Things Author:Hugh Hefner
“I'm not much of a math and science guy. I spent most of my time in school daydreaming and managed to turn it into a living. When I was making "Star Wars," I wasn't restrained by any kind of science. I simply said, "I'm going to create a world that's fun and interesting, makes sense, and seems to have a reality to it."” WorldKindSaidWarRealitySeemsSchoolGuyTurnsFunStarsInterestingMathMake SenseMy TimeDaydreamingMath And ScienceSimply Said Author:George Lucas
“The thing that's interesting about wire walking is that we never get to see it other than looking up. It's like a circus thing. It's a guy on a wire.” GuyInterestingWalkingWireCircus Author:Robert Zemeckis
“I thought that the behavioral and some of the profiling stuff was interesting. The thing that I was most interested in, and the thing that we were really adament about, was let's get these guys who were there on tape, or in some kind of way, telling what happened. No one has really talked to them all.” WayKindGuyStuffInterestingHappenedTape Author:David Fincher
“I never ever would have thought initially it would have been someone like Pierce playing Charles. I think he has an innate likeability to him, as soon as you meet him he's very, very charismatic. Charles, on the page, was someone who's very domineering and quite a negative character, and Pierce just by being Pierce can change the whole dynamic of it, which made for a much for interesting relationship. He's a really nice guy.” ThinkingHas BeensMadeWholeCharacterGuyInterestingNicePagesNegativeInnateReally NicePierceNice GuyCharismaticCharles I Author:Robert Pattinson
“The truth is, I'm a character guy. That's how I see myself. I always see the role as being far more interesting and important than I am... not all actors approach it that way.” WayImportantCharacterGuyActorsInterestingRolesTruth IsApproach Author:Stephen Lang
“Really a bad guy is more interesting, dramatically, than the good guy.” GuyInterestingBad GuysGood Guy Author:Kirk Douglas
“'Brokeback Mountain' is a sad love story about two people who can't be together, and the reason that they can't be together is because being gay is a stigmatized thing. It would be interesting to have the same movie in which the two guys weren't in the closet and there was no shame about them being gay and they couldn't be together for other reasons. I still feel like we're a long way from that happening.” PeopleWayFeelsLongStillsTwoReasonStoriesWould BeTogetherGuyInterestingGayMountainHappeningsShameLove StoryClosetsLong WayBeing GaySad LoveTwo GuysBrokeback Mountain Author:Wesley Morris
“I haven't spent my entire career playing the guy in the bad hat, although I have to say that the bad guy is frequently much more interesting than the good guy.” GuyInterestingCareersHavensHatsBad GuysGood Guy Author:Christopher Lee
“Starting in 98 when I was researching Traffic, I got to meet really serious people in Washington, which for a screenwriter was kind of a great gift. And I really valued these guys; I stayed in touch with them, and I find their point-of-view quite interesting.” PeopleKindGuyInterestingViewsSeriousStartingPoint Of ViewTrafficScreenwritersGreat Gifts Author:Stephen Gaghan
“A "showrunner" as a position is a relatively new thing. It used to be the executive producer. That's not true anymore. Now it's evolved into this model where people look to showrunners and say, that guy is that show. It's just become a lot more interesting to know the showrunner and to get a sense of that person.” PeopleKnowsLooksPersonsShowsUsedGuyInterestingPositionModelsProducersUsed To BeExecutivesNew ThingsThat Guy Author:Matt Nix