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Characters Quotes by Roger Ebert
- We live in a box of space and time. Movies are windows in its walls. They allow us to enter other minds, not simply in…
- When we go to the movies, we identify with the characters we see. That's why we go to the movies; we have a voyeuristic experience;…
- In the vast majority of movies, everything is done for the audience. We are cued to laugh or cry, be frightened or relieved; Hitchcock called…
- One of the weapons Marvel used in its climb to comic-book dominance was a willingness to invent new characters at a dizzying speed. There are…
- The buried code of many American films has become: If I kill you, I have won and you have lost. The instinctive ethical code of…
- Why has Scandinavia been producing such good thrillers? Maybe because their filmmakers can't afford millions for CGI and must rely on cheaper elements like, you…
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- Casting ethnic characters is a very hard thing to do, but it's important. It's also interesting. — Darren Aronofsky
- I definitely see the good in people. Certainly in my own life I strive to be somebody who is functional and well… — Alan Ball
- I did private study for about a month, five days a week, six hours a day. I came to understand the character… — Corin Nemec
- Among those whose reputation is exhausted in a short time by its own luxuriance are the writers who take advantage of present… — Samuel Johnson
- One of my favorite things about 'Star Trek' wasn't just the overt banter but the humor in that show about the relationships… — J. J. Abrams
- You can fake your age or mask it, but the passion that moves the characters has to be real. — Victoria Abril
- Once a novel gets going and I know it is viable, I don't then worry about plot or themes. These things will… — Chinua Achebe
- Every autobiography is concerned with two characters, a Don Quixote, the Ego, and a Sancho Panza, the Self. — Wystan Hugh Auden