Best process & character Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“For me, being able to be vulnerable is difficult, but it's just something that I feel comfortable doing. I need to fully understand why, the thought-process behind the character and I have to believe it. That comes from a lot of preparation.”

Needs Feels Believe Character Able Process Difficult Behinds Comfortable Vulnerable Preparation Thought Process

Author:Logan Lerman

“In every character I play, I try to imbibe something. Every film is a learning process for me.”

Trying Play Character Film Process Learning Process

Author:Ajay Naidu

“As a novelist, you deepen your characters as you go, adding layers. As a reporter, you try to peel layers away: observing subjects enough to get beneath the surface, re-questioning a source to find the facts. But these processes aren't so different.”

Trying Different Enough Character Facts Process Subjects Source Surface Novelists Layers Questioning Reporters Observing Beneath The Surface

Author:Amy Waldman

“Character is character and voice is voice, which translates nicely from writing novels to writing TV. But the process is different. You have a writer's room, people pitch you jokes and you collaborate.”

People Writing Different Character Process Voice Rooms Novel Tvs Jokes Translate

Author:Jennifer Weiner

“It is the business of thought to define things, to find the boundaries; thought, indeed, is a ceaseless process of definition. It is the business of Art to give things shape. Anyone who takes no delight in the firm outline of an object, or in its essential character, has no artistic sense. He cannot even be nourished by Art. Like Ephraim, he feeds upon the East wind, which has no boundaries.”

Giving Art Character Process Objects Wind Shapes Essentials Perception Definitions Delight East Boundaries Artistic Firm Outlines No Boundaries

Author:Vance Palmer

“GOOSE, n. A bird that supplies quills for writing. These, by some occult process of nature, are penetrated and suffused with various degrees of the bird's intellectual energies and emotional character, so that when inked and drawn mechanically across paper by a person called an "author," there results a very fair and accurate transcript of the fowl's thought and feeling. The difference in geese, as discovered by this ingenious method, is considerable: many are found to have only trivial and insignificant powers, but some are seen to be very great geese indeed.”

Source: The Devil's Dictionary: The Devil World

“Eragon started as me but ended up evolving into his very own character, .. Even as he has gone through his coming- of- age story, the process of writing and publishing these novels has been my own coming- of- age story. There are parallels between my own experience and Eragon's, but fortunately, I don't have people charging at me with swords.”

People Writing Has Beens Character Stories Age Process My Own Novel Gone Evolve Coming Of Age Publishing Parallels Charging Eragon

Author:Christopher Paolini

“If you understand your character and feel like it's a collaborative process, you're more inclined to dive into the deep end and fight for your character and feel passionate about your character, and that passion comes across on screen.”

Ifs Feels Ends Character Fighting Passion Process Passionate Screens

Author:Katheryn Winnick

“That's what a powerful story does. It creates a more intense experience of life for you to watch. That's what a good film does for me, anyway. That process, I enjoy. It just makes for entertaining characters and entertaining films.”

Doe Character Stories Film Process Enjoy Powerful Watches Intense Entertaining Good Films

Author:Sharlto Copley

“Justice is the recognition of the fact that you cannot fake the character of men as you cannot fake the character of nature, that you must judge all men as conscientiously as you judge inanimate objects, with the same respect for truth, with the same incorruptible vision, by as pure and as rational a process of identification-that every man must be judged for what he is and treated accordingly.”

Men Character Facts Process Justice Vision Objects Judging Pure Every Man Treated Rational Recognition Fake Judged Identification Inanimate Objects Character Of A Man

Author:John Galt

“Writers know - especially new writers - [that] a lot of it [creative process] is the prewriting stage, the talking, brainstorming, the narrative arc and the character sketches.”

Knows Character Process Talking Creative Stage Narrative Creative Process Arcs Brainstorming

Author:Jenna Bush

“Humanity had to inflict terrible injuries on itself before the self, the identical, purpose-directed, masculine character of human beings was created, and something of this process is repeated in every childhood.”

Humans Self Character Purpose Humanity Process Human Beings Childhood Terrible Injury Masculine Identical

Book:Dialectic of Enlightenment

Source: Dialectic of Enlightenment

“Contrary to what we've been taught, genes do not determine physical and character traits on their own. Rather, they interact with the environment in a dynamic, ongoing process that produces and continually refines an individual”

Character Individual Process Environment Produce Taught Determine Contrary Genes Traits Ongoing Character Trait

Book:The Genius in All of Us: New Insights into Genetics, Talent, and IQ

Source: The Genius in All of Us: New Insights into Genetics, Talent, and IQ

“I just rely on the text to speak for itself and then speak it as I believe it to interpret it, and then just know that the rules of the world that we're creating allow for things to come to life, and then just trust in the process of making a film. Hopefully we'll make a sequel, because if we do, we had such a great time as an ensemble, I think the best thing to do would be to just take the whole cast back. This is Iain's idea and I agree with it. Just reincarnate all the characters and put them back into the world. There's no rules. Why couldn't we do that?”

Ifs Thinking Knows World Believe Ideas Whole Character Would Be Film Speak I Believe Process Creating Agree Casts Hopefully Best Things Things To Do Rely Great Times Sequels Ensemble

Author:Brendan Fraser

“One nourishes one's created characters with one's own substance: it's rather like the process of gestation. To give the character life, or to give him back life, it is of course necessary to fortify him by contributing something of one's own humanity, but it doesn't follow from that that the character is I, the writer, or that I am the character. The two entities remain distinct.”

Giving Two Character Humanity Courses Process Substance Entity Contributing Gestation

Author:Marguerite Yourcenar

“It was natural that the direct wielders of the royal prerogative, men who sat in the Star Chamber and the Privy Council, who knew the secrets of the State and the necessity for prompt action, should despise the merely declaratory character of a good deal of Common Law process. To them we doubtless owe those four great pillars of Chancery jurisdiction, the injunction, the decree, the sequestration, and the commission of rebellion.”

Source: A Short History of English Law: From the Earliest Times to the End of the Year 1919

“Emotional healing is almost always a process. It takes time. There is a very important reason for this. Our heavenly Father is not only wanting to free us from the pain of past wounds, he is also desirous of bringing us into maturity, both spiritually and emotionally. That takes time, because we need time to learn to make the right choices. He loves us enough to take the months and years necessary to not only heal our wounds, but also build our character. Without growth of character we will get wounded again.”

“The script is a blueprint for the film - there are very few bad scripts that make good movies. If you really like the character and understand the utility it serves within the movie, that's a part of my process.”

Ifs Character Film Process Scripts Utility Good Movie Blueprints

Author:Topher Grace

“The process of writing a novel begins with a pang, a moment of recognition, and a situation, a character, or something you read in a paper, that seems to go off, like a solar flare inside your head.”

Writing Moments Character Seems Process Situation Novel Paper Recognition Flare Solar Flares

Author:Martin Amis

“The little world of childhood with its familiar surroundings is a model of the greater world. The more intensively the family has stamped its character upon the child, the more it will tend to feel and see its earlier miniature world again in the bigger world of adult life. Naturally this is not a conscious, intellectual process.”

World Feels Children Littles Character Process Greater Childhood Intellectual Models Conscious Adults Bigger Familiar Surroundings Memories Dreams Reflections Miniatures

Author:Carl Jung

“You can actually improvise a lot as a voice actor. It's not that entirely different than shooting a live action movie; the characters mouths are quite easy to manipulate once all the information is built into the computer. So you can improvise a lot and it doesn't matter really how far along they are in the process they can really just make the character say something different.”

Different Matter Character Action Actors Easy Process Voice Information Computer Mouths Built Shooting Manipulate Action Movie

Author:Seth Rogen

“The audience has to understand that if the film is going to have any meaning for them. If they are going to empathize with the characters, they have to visualize the process of concentration involved in making every move.”

Ifs Character Film Moving Process Audience Involved Concentration

Author:Conrad Hall

“A sentence is born into this world neither good nor bad, and that to establish its character is a question of the subtlest possible adjustments, a process of intuition to which exaggeration and force are fatal.”

World Character Force Process Born This World Intuition Sentences Adjustment Exaggeration

Book:Outline: A Novel

Source: Outline: A Novel

“For character too is a process and an unfoldingamong our valued friends is there not someone or other who is a little too self confident and disdainful; whose distinguished mind is a little spotted with commonness; who is a little pinched here and protruberent there with native prejudices; or whose better energies are liable to lapse down the wrong channel under the influence of transient solicitations?”

Mind Littles Self Character Energy Process Influence Prejudice Native Distinguished Transient Liable Lapses Self Confident Solicitation Valued Friends

Author:George Eliot

“When you come onto the set, everything should be focused around your character and you should stay in the pocket, as much as possible. Every actor has their own process. For me, I really need to stay in the pocket.”

Needs Should Character Actors Process Focused Pockets

Author:Vin Diesel

“If thinking is like perceiving, it must be either a process in which the soul is acted upon by what is capable of being thought, or a process different from but analogous to that. The thinking part of the soul must therefore be, while impassable, capable of receiving the form of an object; that is, must be potentially identical in character with its object without being the object. Mind must be related to what is thinkable, as sense is to what is sensible.”

Ifs Thinking Mind Different Soul Character Form Process Objects Capable Related Thoughtful Sensible Receiving Identical Thinkable

Book:On the Soul

Source: On the Soul

“I prize the purity of his character as highly as I do that of hers. As a moral being, whatever it is morally wrong for her to do,it is morally wrong for him to do. The fallacious doctrine of male and female virtues has well nigh ruined all that is morally great and lovely in his character: he has been quite as deep a sufferer by it as woman, though mostly in different respects and by other processes.”

Wells Has Beens Different Character Process Moral Virtue Morality Female Males Lovely Doctrine Purity Prize Ruined Sufferers

Author:Angelina Grimke

“As a natural process, of the same character as the development of a tree from its seed, or of a fowl from its egg, evolution excludes creation and all other kinds of supernatural intervention.”

Kind Character Process Natural Tree Creation Development Evolution Seeds Eggs Intervention Fowl

Book:The Major Prose of Thomas Henry Huxley

Source: The Major Prose of Thomas Henry Huxley

“There were two things that became apparent, pretty quickly into the process. One was that the muscles didn't take as much reconditioning as I thought they would. It was more like voice acting than I thought it would be. You're using your whole body and there are things that are different, but when you are doing a character, even in the booth, nobody is watching but my face will do different things when I do different characters.”

Two Different Whole Character Body Would Be Faces Process Voice Acting Two Things Muscles Different Things Be You Different Characters Voice Acting

Author:Seth MacFarlane

“That's a discovery process. That's the terrifying and wonderful part about getting picked up to series. You get to develop the stories and talk about the characters, and find out where the heart of the series is.”

Heart Character Stories Process Wonderful Discovery Series

Author:Chuck Lorre

“The predominant difference between television and film is the pace to which you work, but the development of the character or the process for playing the character isn't necessarily different.”

Different Character Film Process Differences Television Development Pace

Author:Elijah Wood

“One of the things that I really love about doing a film is working with actors and the whole casting process. I feel I'm not looking for actors. I feel I'm looking for characters. If the characters come from Bollywood, fine. If they come from Indian theater, perfect.”

Ifs Feels Whole Character Film Actors Process Perfect Fine Theater Indian Casting Bollywood

Author:Deepa Mehta

“There are so many different ways to develop a character - physically, mentally, spiritually and all of that - but the research was really beautiful. I love the process of finding characters because, in the beginning, it's really unknown, and then, by the end of it, all of a sudden, you're walking and talking like that character.”

Way Different Ends Character Beautiful Process Talking Walking Findings Research Different Ways Really Beautiful

Author:Abbie Cornish

“One thing that I don't think I do is play characters. Once you start claiming that you can do something that you're not, you're crazy. I think scripts can really surprise you. You go, "Wow, I did not know that that response could come from me. I did not know that I had that in me." And so, the process of making the movie is just finding that and digging a little deeper.”

Thinking Knows Littles Play Character Process Can Do One Thing Crazy Findings Surprise Response Scripts Deeper Wow Digging Can Do Something

Author:Kristen Stewart

“I think that most of my books are part of some process of self-education, often about the places I go to. Most of all, they are about the peculiar tension between institutional loyalty and loyalty to oneself; the mystery of patriotism, for a Brit of my age and generation, where it runs, how it should be defined, what it's worth and what a corrupting force it can be when misapplied. All that stuff is just in me and it comes out in the characters. I don't mean to preach, but I know I do, and I'm a very flawed person. It's quite ridiculous.”

Thinking Knows Should Mean Persons Book Self Character Running Age Force Stuff Process Generations Mystery Oneself Loyalty Ridiculous Defined Tension Peculiar Flawed Self Education Brits

Author:John le Carre

“A lot of people ask, "What do you pull on in your own life from your character?" In all honesty, it's not something that really works that way for me. I tend to look at these things as an imaginative process and a challenge of imagination and empathy, to some degree. I get much more out of meeting people who have lived these lives than I do digging around in my own limited experiences.”

People Way Looks Character Asks Process Imagination Challenges My Own Honesty Degrees Empathy Meetings Imaginative Digging

Author:Edward Norton

“When we make films - even 2D films - you're always trying to create this illusion of 3D, anyway. You're trying to create a believable world with characters walking, in and out of the perspective, to create the illusion that there's a world. The desire and drive to create this illusion of three-dimensional space is something that is true about every kind of film because you want the audience to really be experiencing it, first hand. It's a natural extension of the storytelling and the process of filmmaking.”

World Want Trying Firsts Kind Character Hands Film Desire Three Process Natural Space Audience Perspective Walking Illusion Storytelling Filmmaking Extensions Always Trying Believable

Author:Rob Minkoff

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