Ground the main character in stupidity. Hire a good cast and a good crew. — Jon Glaser Copy Share Image
"Fish Tank" [my favorite woman-directed film] by Andrea Arnold. The film is so beautifully shot, and I love the raw energy of… — Nicole Nielsen Horanyi Copy Share Image
Deeply affecting and compulsively readable, The Fifty-First State displays Lisa Borders' emotional acuity, first-rate skills as a storyteller, and profound empathy not… — Christopher Castellani Copy Share Image
If you're making a movie about the effects of time, you kind of have to engage time as the main character. — Ryan Gosling Copy Share Image
A is for Alibi, my first book, was published in 1982. As it happened the next couple of books took place in… — Sue Grafton Copy Share Image
There's something in psychology called the narrative paradigm, which essentially means that we think of our lives as stories in which we… — Aleksandar Hemon Copy Share Image
When I'm following what a character does in a book I don't have to think about my own life. Where I am.… — Matt de la Pena Copy Share Image
Sometimes I`m stressed and I`m sick of things and I need to forget about them for a while, so in Harry Potter… — Evanna Lynch Copy Share Image
To play one of the main characters in it, it's not the kind of thing you don't do. Oh, I'd rather not… — Billy Boyd Copy Share Image
I would love to play a main character and then play different characters as well. I would want for it to be… — Brandy Norwood Copy Share Image
For my second novel, The Apothecary's Daughter, my editor encouraged me to think of another unusual profession for a woman to have.… — Julie Klassen Copy Share Image
I needed to create some dramatic tension to sustain the interest of the audience. For instance, the boy in the film is… — Philippe Falardeau Copy Share Image
Hearing the faraway sounds of children at recess makes me understand that I am no longer life's main character. — Alec Sulkin Copy Share Image
[At the end of the story, its main character, Tom] is now a great man of science, and can plan railroads, and… — Charles Kingsley Copy Share Image
It's also very important to make sure that the main character and the player are completely in synch. — Sam Lake Copy Share Image
I moved to the east coast when everybody else was going to the west coast. I (then) chased it back toward the… — Drew Waters Copy Share Image
I first heard the term "meta-novel" at a writer's conference in Tulsa, Oklahoma. The idea is that even though each book in… — Carolyn Wheat Copy Share Image
Poe was the first writer to write about main characters who were bad guys or who were mad guys, and those are… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
The life story of the five main characters and the secondary characters around them allows Jonathan Franzen to present the full impetus… — Batya Gur Copy Share Image
The Big Bang Theory: When geeky scientists can be main characters in a hit prime time series, you know there's hope for… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
My stories usually begin with the characters and some elements of how power (personal, political, magical) functions in the world. The rest… — Leigh Bardugo Copy Share Image
I'm always fascinated by losers. Also, in my "Foucault's Pendulum," the main characters, who are in a way losers, they are more… — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
Never open your story with a character thinking, I advise my students. As a further precaution, don’t put a character in a… — Les Standiford Copy Share Image
The acting style that has emerged from HD, because of the contrast and how sharp the picture is, it's more neutrally played.… — Dolph Lundgren Copy Share Image
Once I became an adult and started to pursue writing as a professional career, I realized my main characters were always young… — Renee Watson Copy Share Image
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