Achieve Quote by Curtis Sittenfeld

You try to make characters you care about, and I think realism helps. Even though this is a high concept, the characters have got…

— Ricky Gervais

Fiction doesn't appeal to me because it can describe physical appearances exhaustively or because it can offer access to the inner depths of an…

— Ben Lerner

I like it when actors get an opportunity to chew into something. They love scenes with beginnings, middles, and ends - scenes that give…

— Tracy Letts

Characters on stage should be flat, like clothes in a fashion show: what you get should be no more than what you see. Psychological…

— Elfriede Jelinek

I like movies where everything is dealt naturally and with a sense of realism.

— Varun Tej

I love it when characters surprise you, just like real people. When I write a scene I just try to make the characters behave…

— Brad Falchuk

I think it just really excites me, the idea of delving so far into a character that people actually believe it's real, and I…

— Chris Lilley

One of the things I strive for is realism. I need to be as real as possible in the dilemmas my characters face.

— Tamora Pierce

For me, portraying a character is not about liking or disliking it; it's about meeting a challenge that's thrown at you.

— Manoj Bajpayee

All dramatic realism is somewhat sadistic; an audience is persuaded to watch something that makes it uncomfortable and from which no relief is offered…

— Mary McCarthy

I like flawed characters very much. A lot of times I get asked to do parts that are kind of small but key -…

— Bobby Cannavale

Each time I'm starting to work on a film, even if I love to settle the plot in the real world, I start to…

— Arnaud Desplechin