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“I don't really distinguish between sympathy and honesty when I'm writing. The two go together - I'm interested in inhabiting my characters, seeing the world through their eyes.”

World Writing Two Character Eye Together Seeing Honesty Sympathy Seeing The World

Author:Tom Perrotta

“I think part of the fun of being an actor is getting to work with different directors and seeing their take on it, what they're passionate about. They all have different ideas about your character.”

Thinking Ideas Different Character Actors Fun Seeing Directors Passionate Different Ideas

Author:Elizabeth Reaser

“The first time I walked into the Olympic athlete village seeing the Visa ATM machine with my picture on it and the Chinese characters saying "Destiny." For some reason, it just boosted my confidence and it was before I had even worked out or had my first training or competed.”

Firsts Reason Character Destiny Seeing Training First Time Machines Athlete Chinese Village Visa Olympic Athlete Atm Atm Machines

Author:Nastia Liukin

“There's nothing like getting yourself into character and seeing a different person. It really wears on your vanity.”

Persons Different Character Seeing Vanity

Author:Elisabeth Moss

“I don't own an ounce of the work I've ever done on 'Batman,' and I still work on 'Batman.' I love the character, I think it's a lot of fun, and it's kind of fun to be in that ballpark every once in a while, where you're seeing a different crowd.”

Thinking Kind Stills Different Done Character Fun Seeing Crowds Ballparks

Author:Frank Miller

“I should love to do a novel, about one abnormal character seeing present-day life, very ordinary life, yet arresting through it, abnormality, until at the end the reader sees, and with little reluctance, that he is not abnormal at all, and that the main character might as well be himself.”

Should Wells Littles Ends Character Might Novel Seeing Reader Ordinary Abnormal Present Day Ordinary Life Day Life Reluctance Main Characters Abnormality Arresting

Author:Patricia Highsmith

“I'm not actually a psychopath. I don't look evil. People don't normally want to put me in the same kind of things afterward, so I'm looking forward to people taking a few risks and hopefully seeing me as the character actor that I think I am.”

People Thinking Want Looks Kind Character Evil Actors Seeing Risk Hopefully Looking Forward Psychopath Evil People Character Actors

Author:David Oakes

“The secret to writing sound effects is having a room you can be alone in, trying to make the sounds yourself, and seeing what comes out. It's similar to if you're writing a character talking with their mouth full: the only way I know to transcribe that is to stuff my fist in my mouth and write down what sounds I make when I try to talk.”

Ifs Knows Way Writing Trying Book Character Stuff Sound Rooms Secret Talking Seeing Effects Mouths Comic Comic Book Fists Sound Effects

Author:Ryan North

“I like looking at the characters. Seeing them always brings up some voice or attitude. I am much more visual, and that works so much better than having someone tell me what the character is all about.”

Character Voice Attitude Seeing Visuals

Author:Frank Welker

“People do tell a writer things that they don't tell others. I don't know why, unless it is that having read one or two of his books they feel on peculiarly intimate terms with him; or it may be that they dramatize themselves and, seeing themselves as it were as characters in a novel, are ready to be as open with him as they imagine the characters of his invention are.”

People Knows Feels Writing May Two Book Character Term Novel Imagine Seeing Ready Invention Intimate

Author:W. Somerset Maugham

“Once a character has gelled it's an unmistakable sensation, like an engine starting up within one's body. From then onwards one is driven by this other person, seeing things through their eyes.”

Persons Character Body Eye Seeing Starting Driven Sensations Engines Starting Up

Author:Deborah Moggach

“People are not used to seeing an older woman on screen, unless she's playing a character role. Why can't they make a movie about a woman who's forty-five who's falling in love or getting divorced? Why does the leading role always have to be a woman who's twenty-three or twenty-eight?”

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Author:Melanie Griffith

“The act of seeing any film generally is you knowing more than the characters, even if its the classic Hitchcock shot of two people talking and a bomb being under the table. Part of the pleasure of it is seeing where people go wrong, and the irony of situations.”

People Ifs Two Character Film Pleasure Talking Situation Knowing Seeing Shots Tables Irony Classic Bombs Hitchcock People Talking Knowing More

Author:Richard Ayoade

“What I think after reading the script and seeing where the story goes, I go with my instincts on the character. If my instincts are wrong the director and the producers will guide me in the right direction. That's just kind of how I take on any role, be it a fantasy movie or not.”

Ifs Thinking Kind Character Stories Reading Roles Fantasy Seeing Directors Instinct Scripts Guides Producers Right Direction Guide Me

Author:Josh Hutcherson

“Notwithstanding his very liberal laudation of himself, however, the Major was selfish. It may be doubted whether there ever was a more entirely selfish person at heart; or at stomach is perhaps a better expression, seeing that he was more decidedly endowed with that latter organ than with the former.”

Heart May Persons Character Interesting Seeing Expression Majors Selfish Former Latter Stomach Organs Doubted Interesting Characters Selfish Person

Book:Charles Dickens's works. Charles Dickens ed. [18 vols. of a 21 vol. set. Wanting A child's history of England; Christmas stories; The mystery of Edwin Drood].

Source: Charles Dickens's works. Charles Dickens ed. [18 vols. of a 21 vol. set. Wanting A child's history of England; Christmas stories; The mystery of Edwin Drood].

“Old Mr. Rarx was not a pleasant man to look at, nor yet to talk to, or to be with, for no one could help seeing that he was a sordid and selfish character, and that he had warped further and further out of the straight with time.”

Men Looks Character Helping Interesting Seeing Selfish Pleasant Interesting Characters

Book:Dickens Ultimate Christmas Collection: The Greatest Stories & Novels for Christmas Time: A Christmas Carol, Doctor Marigold, Oliver Twist, Tom Tiddler's Ground, The Holly-Tree and more (Illustrated): The Best Loved Christmas Classics in One Volume

Source: Dickens Ultimate Christmas Collection: The Greatest Stories & Novels for Christmas Time: A Christmas Carol, Doctor Marigold, Oliver Twist, Tom Tiddler's Ground, The Holly-Tree and more (Illustrated): The Best Loved Christmas Classics in One Volume

“I'm not a writer, inherently. Most of the writers I've met have stories they need to tell. I don't have that. I'm an interpreter. I like getting a script, seeing a character and thinking, "Oh, wow, I know what I can do with that."”

Thinking Knows Needs I Can Character Stories Can Do Seeing Mets Scripts Wow Interpreter

Author:Mark Strong

“Making a movie is about following characters and embarking on an adventure with them, seeing their reactions, and seeing what they do, having empathy for those characters, feeling for those characters, embarking on this adventure.”

Character Feelings Seeing Adventure Empathy Following Reactions Embarking

Author:Franck Khalfoun

“Probably the only thing that isn't great is the time when I know I'm very close to finishing the actual writing of the story and I'm overcome by this sense of loss. I think it's because I know I won't be "talking" to the main character anymore, it's sort of like what you feel when you know a friend is moving away and you probably won't be seeing her again.”

Thinking Knows Feels Writing Character Stories Moving Loss Talking Seeing Overcoming Finishing Main Characters Moving Away

Author:Christopher Paul Curtis

“Part of what compels me to write day after day, chapter after chapter, is the discovery process, seeing the characters evolve as I get deeper and deeper into the story.”

Writing Character Stories Process Seeing Discovery Deeper Evolve Chapters

Author:Jillian Medoff

“It's nice to do something about something that scares you rather than just run from it and hope that someone saves you. I like seeing strong female characters and somebody who doesn't run away screaming when scared, but confronts the monsters.”

Character Running Strong Nice Seeing Female Scared Monsters Scare Running Away Female Characters Strong Female Characters Strong Female

Author:Katie Holmes

“I love seeing my characters big up there and I would have liked to have reached a different public in movies from my television public. There's still a part of me that wishes that my character range could be seen on the big screen. Rather, as Rod Steiger was, because he was a big influence on me - about becoming other people and not worrying about your own glory or self esteem but sacrificing yourself to become somebody else.”

People Stills Different Self Character Bigs Wish Worry Seeing Sacrifice Influence Self Esteem Television Becoming Glory Screens Esteem Range Big Screen Not Worrying Sacrificing Yourself

Author:David Suchet

“Casting is everything. Getting the person that you imagined is this character and then seeing what they bring to it.That's why you hire them, so why tell somebody first what it is you want? I'm more curious to see what they bring to it and then be inspired by it and say: "OK, what if you tried this?" or "What would happen if ... ?"”

Ifs Want Firsts Persons Character Happens Seeing Inspired Curious What If Casting Be Inspired

Author:Steve Buscemi

“I'm a little worried about a Batman versus Superman movie just because it's... I just think it's really tough to pull off. I'm very excited about seeing it, but I think it's really tough to balance those two characters in the same movie.”

Thinking Littles Two Character Seeing Balance Tough Excited Worried Versus Superman Movie

Author:Robbie Amell

“Everybody you work with sees what you're doing from a different point of view, a very specific point of view. So, if someone is lighting, they're seeing it from that point of view. A production designer is seeing it from the placement of furniture that tells you about the character. Everything that goes into the room should tell you about the person who lives in that room.”

Ifs Should Persons Different Character Rooms Views Seeing Productions Point Of View Designer Furniture Lighting Different Points Of View Placement

Author:Fred Schepisi

“You lose somebody you've possibly known for years and on top of that you lose a character that you love seeing on TV so I think that kind of makes it cool that we pay a price too. That it is painful on many levels and its amazing to be writing that moment and crossing that line right on the page and seeing the ugliness of it and having to deal with it. It's a very weird thing.”

Thinking Writing Years Kind Moments Character Loses Lines Levels Deals Pay Known Seeing Tvs Pages Painful That Moment Ugliness Crossings Weird Things

Author:Scott M. Gimple

“I guess I cringe, because sometimes I don't even watch my live performances back. When I edit, it's this feeling of seeing my mistakes. It's always a mixture of loving characters, but being the artist that created it and not trying to go too deep in criticizing myself.”

Trying Sometimes Character Feelings Artist Mistake Watches Seeing Performances Criticize Mixtures Edits Back When My Mistakes Cringe Too Deep Live Performance

Author:Kalup Linzy

“If God brings our pets back to life, it wouldn't surprise me. It would be just like Him. It would be totally in keeping with His generous character... Exorbitant. Excessive. Extravagant in grace after grace. Of all the dazzling discoveries and ecstatic pleasures heaven will hold for us, the potential of seeing Scrappy would be pure whimsy-utterly, joyfully, surprisingly superfluous... Heaven is going to be a place that will refract and reflect in as many ways as possible the goodness and joy of our great God, who delights in lavishing love on His children.”

Ifs Way Children Character Would Be Joy Heaven Pleasure Grace Seeing Pure Goodness Discovery Surprise Delight Generous Pet Ecstatic Superfluous Extravagant Dazzling Surprise Me Whimsy

Author:Joni Eareckson Tada

“The number one reason for the death of young actors' careers is people get so used to seeing them playing that one character that they can't accept them as anyone else.”

People Reason Character Young Used Actors Numbers Accepting Careers Seeing Young Actors

Author:Denzel Whitaker

“One of my favorite things about the Kung Fu Panda 3 is the look of it. We never go for realism. I think a lot of time when people go for 3D that's the mistake. Because we're never going for full realism - for computer generated live action films like Avatar the goal is realism, to make the audience feel like they are seeing something that is real. Lord of the Rings had character design and environments to make it look real, whereas we aren't going for that, we are going for something that is theatrically, viscerally, and emotionally real.”

“When I was thinking about these women characters, no matter how bad a person I am - a bad writer, my limitations, my sexism, you know - the thought was, it would be useful as a writer to try to create a template for all the male writers, especially Dominican male writers, especially males of color, of how a writer can use seeing to create more nuanced representations of women.”

Thinking Knows Trying Persons Matter Character Use Would Be Seeing Color Males Limitation Sexism Representation

Author:Junot Diaz

“But we did see the process develop. I remember going to the Rocket Pictures base and they had something like 40 people there, drawing. They didn't know what the characters looked like yet and I remember on the walls seeing 30 or 40 different versions of Juliet. So, it was then that I realised that someone's got to come in and make some really executive decisions.”

People Knows Different Character Remember Process Decision Seeing Wall Drawing Versions Executives Rockets Realised Juliet

Author:Matt Lucas

“I really loved it because it really informed his way of seeing my character and the story. If you look closely he always had this metaphor of an egg, of a little chick pecking her way out of a shell, and in one scene in the kitchen there are all these white plates on a wall and then in the middle there is a yellow plate so even that looks like an egg. And a lot of the furniture was almost sculpted in that way as well. It was really cool to see that.”

Ifs Way Wells Looks Littles Character Stories White Seeing Middle Wall Scene Metaphor Kitchen Eggs Yellow Plates Shells Furniture Really Cool Chicks

Author:Mia Wasikowska