Because I'm stern and scolding [the characters] sometimes, I'm sure I'll get a ton of grief.
I find it very difficult to be two different characters at the same time - actress and mother.
Although I love all genres, I really love to play in two main arenas: Comedy and ThrillerHorror. In either genre I love playing flawed, layered characters that are actively fighting to achieve something in the story.
My connection to music is so strong. I cling to it. I vibe out to it. I release stress to it. Music is really always close to me. It's really present in my work in terms of how I relate to characters is through rhythm and sound, even in their speech.
All characters have a voice but not all voices have character. And it's all about character and personality.
That is the dream of all novelists-that one of their characters will become 'somebody. '
There are a set of malicious, prating, prudent gossips, both male and female, who murder characters to kill time; and will rob a young fellow of his good name before he has years to know the value of it.
I've auditioned for normal characters. But I never get cast.
Traditionally, lots of vagrants and unemployable characters wind up working in kitchens.
It becomes more and more popular to call actors who play characters "character actors. " But I've always been somebody who is much more invested in who I am playing than how they look.
You do look at a lot of movies and many characters seem to be interchangeable.
We liked the idea of introducing the audience to the world, and to show how much they had accepted or were confused by it. It was gratifying to see the people who embraced it immediately and understood it and got into it. They have tracked the characters through the six episodes, so it felt that now we can launch into the journey element of it. And really explore more of the Badlands.
Every time I make a movie I have too many characters and too many locations.
I want people to feel conflicted. I want them to feel for characters they started out hating. I want to start conversations about what it means to be a parent. About the responsibility we bear to ourselves and to each other.
I think it is an intelligent story [The Intruders]. You've got adult characters who are in search of some things that are out there that we sense are out there, but we don't have any proof. John's character stumbles into that situation.
I always play these rodent type characters - skittish and hyper like a chipmunk. It's a complete act though. I'm a very normal person.
The difference between the world of pictures and the world of printed matter is extraordinary and hard to define. A picture is like the masses: a multitude of impressions. A book on the other hand, with its linear advance of words and characters seems to be connected to individual identity.
So if you want to have a great video game-based movie you have to keep the mood of the game, use the normal character setup - but you have to flesh out the story and provide more background for the characters.
Flaws make us all human, and you're rooting for characters because of those flaws. It's ageless if you're interested in relationships and the way people can or can't relate to each other.
The advantage of literature over life is that its characters are clearly defined, and act consistently.