I wanted to take a damaged individual in a damaged society with damaged relationships between nations and take a look at how… — Steven Knight 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
Rob Horton, the main character of The Tiger Rising, was a secondary character in an adult short story I wrote, and he… — Kate DiCamillo Copy Share Image
I used my daughter's crayons for each main character. One end of the wallpaper was the beginning of the story, and the… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
If you're writing a screenplay from scratch, it involves a lot of creation. In this play, I had a strong main character… — Philippe Falardeau Copy Share Image
My problem has been with purely digital films. I feel the danger there is that the kind of short-cuts you end up… — Rick Heinrichs Copy Share Image
By the time a writer comes onto a project (if they're being hired as a contractor) the main character has usually been… — Rhianna Pratchett Copy Share Image
Probably the only thing that isn't great is the time when I know I'm very close to finishing the actual writing of… — Christopher Paul Curtis 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
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
Something I was adamant about was that the movie [Everybody Lovess Somebody] wouldn't end with, oh, marriage saved [the main character]. They're… — Karla Souza 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
If you see young tulkus when they're with other little monks, it's like in a Broadway show or something where the main… — Tenzin Palmo Copy Share Image
I want a future where women and girls get to be the subject of their own sexuality, not the object of somebody… — Jaclyn Friedman Copy Share Image
I think we're always trying to avoid tropes. And I think that "Game of Thrones" has almost made killing people a cliche.… — Miles Millar Copy Share Image
I might spend 100 pages trying to get to know the world I'm writing about: its contours, who are my main characters,… — Michael Chabon Copy Share Image
I try to use models at least for the main characters because of the nature of my art. I tend to focus… — Floyd Cooper 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
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
Remember, the essence of storytelling demands that we place our main characters on a path. A quest with something at stake, with… — Larry Brooks Copy Share Image
I should love to do a novel, about one abnormal character seeing present-day life, very ordinary life, yet arresting through it, abnormality,… — Patricia Highsmith Copy Share Image
I have tried to create main characters who are drastically different from the types who generally appear in crime novels. Mikael Blomkvist,… — Stieg Larsson 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
In displaying the psychology of your characters, minute particulars are essential. God save us from vague generalizations! Be sure not to discuss… — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
I do think that in the near future, if it hasn't happened already, people will be able to use technology to design… — Don DeLillo Copy Share Image
As a kid, I was always very into secondary characters - things that weren't supposed to be the focus. The kind of… — Julio Torres Copy Share Image
I don't think I ever intended specifically to write for the young adult market. It's just that when the idea for City… — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
My main characters are the most sunny, happy, optimistic, loving creatures on the face of the Earth. I couldn't be happier that's… — W. Bruce Cameron Copy Share Image
It's not most important to communicate myself on stage as it is to be as funny or interesting as I possibly can… — Bo Burnham Copy Share Image
I read [The Women's Room] in my 20s, and I was like, "I understand this now." And now I've become a mom… — June Diane Raphael Copy Share Image
At the beginning, everything's possible and everybody gets equal time, all the characters, all the ideas. You don't know who's going to… — Stephen Gaghan 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
"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
As a hero, you have to play it straight. The audience is going to live through you, so you have to be… — Dolph Lundgren Copy Share Image
I was very conscious of race as I was writing. I was lucky to have spent real time in Portuguese Africa, but… — Jon Weisman Copy Share Image
[The main character] is in a forever-growing process. I feel the movie [everybody Loves Somebody] did that very well and not finishing… — Karla Souza Copy Share Image
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