Being an animator, and I've directed tons of mo-cap, which really is about how do characters move through space.
Oftentimes, when people don't respond to text messages or emails, I just start writing long, long in-depth essays and diatribes where characters start to appear and narrative threads begin.
If you are a programmer working in 2006 and you don’t know the basics of characters, character sets, encodings, and Unicode, and I catch you, I’m going to punish you by making you peel onions for six months in a submarine.
Twitter is most suitable for me. In the Chinese language, 140 characters is a novella.
If you wanna do a film where you have a big scope, you've got to make your characters relatable and genuine.
Neither sex, without some fertilization of the complimentary characters of the other, is capable of the highest reaches of human endeavor.
I would tell any actress that the trick is to play all the female characters on your show, and then all the men are yours.
I never used to kill characters, because I thought killing characters was cheating.
Every actress hopes to play a wide range of characters because not often you dont.
I enjoy being characters rather than myself.
Having an opportunity to play different characters, and work in different mediums, that's what's fun. The worst question you could be asked is, "What do you like better, film, television or theater?"
As a writer, I challenge myself not to tell the same story - to tackle different characters with different issues.
To close the empathetic gap, you really want to get the person emotionally identifying [with your subject and characters], and then when you do that, then you want sneak in a lesson about history and about politics and whatever else you might think about.
There are fewer and fewer Jews in Ireland, but we still have one of the most famous Jewish characters in literary history, of course, in Leopold Bloom.
Action, reaction, motivation, emotion, all have to come from the characters. Writing a love scene requires the same elements from the writer as any other.
Well, actors get very frustrated with giving control to other people. They have their own ideas and wants for their characters. Warren Beatty once told me that he thought actors ended up directing out of frustration. If you have a strong sense of how to communicate a film, you should direct. The problem is that it is a huge commitment. I'd rather direct a play than a film due to the time. A movie can tie you up for a year or more.
When I started to allow the characters to go where they wanted to go, I just had to follow.
Sometimes my characters are not myself.
It's exciting to get to write characters that love each other and fight for each other.
I believe writers need to be chameleons, or like Meryl Streep, who can play all sorts of characters. A good writer should be able to cross gender lines and people of all social classes. So for me, writing from a male point of view would be a great challenge, that I would look forward to taking on.