“Strong female characters - even if they don't necessarily make the same decisions that we might - make such great narrative material, especially when there's an equally strong male character in the mix.” IfsCharacterMightStrongDecisionMaterialsFemaleMalesNarrativeFemale CharactersStrong Female CharactersStrong Female Author:Meg Cabot
“In revision, your imagination becomes deeply engaged with your material. It's when you come to know your characters and begin to perceive their motivations and values.” KnowsCharacterMotivationValuesImaginationMaterialsPerceiveEngagedRevision Author:John Dufresne
“From the time I got the first couple of scripts [of Jessica Jones], I always felt that this was groundbreaking material and a groundbreaking character.” FirstsCharacterFeltMaterialsCoupleScriptsJessicaGroundbreakingJessica Jones Author:Krysten Ritter
“When people laugh and applaud as characters are killing each other, and you never see the body that's lying there, or you never see the family that suffers, then it turns into a cool thing to do, like a videogame. Then, when you watch the news and see that 15 soldiers were killed, you start to see them as just numbers, material, information, images. We lose the real weight and real value of one simple human life.” PeopleHumansRealCharacterBodyLyingSufferingValuesTurnsLosesSimpleNumbersWatchesLaughingInformationMaterialsNewsWeightKillingSoldierHuman LifeThings To DoCool ThingsReal ValueKilling Each OtherVideogame Author:Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu
“I'm not looking for a series. I love TV. I love developing characters over a long amount of time. I think for an actor it gives you so much material and every season it gives more background and interest and richness. So I would definitely do another series. I'm just waiting for the right thing to come along.” ThinkingGivingLongCharacterActorsWaitingInterestMaterialsTvsAmountSeasonsSeriesBackgroundsDevelopingRight ThingRichness Author:Christina Hendricks
“I think it's the source material. 27 Dresses was a famous book, and Devil Wears Prada was also a wonderful book, so it's coming out of the novelists who are really creating these wonderful female characters that we want to see on the big screen.” ThinkingWantBookCharacterBigsWonderfulMaterialsSourceCreatingDevilFemaleDressesScreensNovelistsComing OutFemale CharactersBig ScreenPradaFamous BookDevil Wears Prada Author:Jerry Bruckheimer