The safest general characterization of the European philosophical tradition is that it consists of a series of footnotes to Plato.
I've never bought into any sort of hard and fast, this-boxthat-box characterization. People are individuals. Yes, they may be expected to be a particular way. But that doesn't mean they're going to be that way.
But eventually I moved the portraiture into the smaller clay things which gave them more of a caricature look to them, rather than a characterization.
Of course, there are hundreds of novels and authors that have influenced me. But to choose three, they are: Stephen KingThe Stand (and really most of his books); Anne RiceThe Witching Hour; and Pat ConroyThe Prince of Tides. These authors write my favorite kind of book - epic feel, gorgeous prose, unique characters, and a pace that keeps you turning the pages. From them, I learned a lot about characterization, pacing, prose, voice, and originality.
A lot of people characterize women as more cautious. I don't think that's an inappropriate characterization, but that's not a natural thing we're born with, it's something that comes about.
I'm not interested in plots. I'm interested only in the characterization of people and what they do.
As a reader I like both great characterization and fast moving plots. The challenge is to balance the both and not compromise one for the other.
Characterization is integral to the theatrical experience.
The only time that I've adopted characterization again since that point, for my own albums, has been an album called "Outside" that I did with Brian Eno.
I think my wife would take objection to any characterization of me as perfect.
Characterization requires self-knowledge, insight into human nature. . . it is more than impersonation.
Characterization is not divorced from plot, not a coat of paint you slap on after the structure of events is already built. Rather characterization is inseparable from plot.
You can use the fun of the genre, but I also really wanted to come at it from the point of view of some really complex characterization. There was a lot that I wanted it to do, and I wanted it to be fun. It's fun, but it's not simple fun.
Acting is characterization, the process of two entities merging-the actor and the role.
The best characterization is provided by the product of this religious education, the Jew himself. His life is only of this world, and his spirit is inwardly as alien to true Christianity as his nature two thousand years previous was to the great founder of the new doctrine.
