Character Quote by David Lean Download Open image “I'm first and foremost interested in the story, the characters.” — David Lean ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.3 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare Character Directors Firsts Screenwriting Stories
I'm not really a plot writer - I'm more interested in the characters and sort of small events that propel the story forward. — Sara Zarr Copy Share Image
I'm not first and foremost interested in story and the what-happens, but I'm interested in who's telling it and how they're telling it and… — Amy Hempel Copy Share Image
I always look for good stories and good characters, and if they're placed in a whodunit, then I'm interested. — Joel Kinnaman Copy Share Image
I'm interested in characters. I love them, and I love to write them. — Sebastian Lelio Copy Share Image
I'm interested in character and dialogue and exchange of ideas. — Alexander McCall Smith Copy Share Image
I look for characters that interest me, and a story that keeps me involved and makes me want to know what happens next. — Curtis Hanson Copy Share Image
You want to tell a great story. You want these characters to become part of people's lives. And then, hopefully, that generates discussion. — Todd Lieberman Copy Share Image
Everything starts with what's on the page, what a writer has come up with. And whether it is a big studio film or independent… — Joan Allen Copy Share Image
For me, what grabs my attention about the project is usually the character immediately and then the story, and then the people that are… — Milo Ventimiglia Copy Share Image
I'm hopefully making the reader feel a lot about the characters and then about their own life. — Jeffrey Eugenides Copy Share Image
My interest is always to get as deeply as I can into the minds and spirits of the characters and let the readers empathize… — Adam Haslett Copy Share Image
When you're in the desert, you look into infinity.... It makes you feel terribly small, and also in a strange way, quite big. — David Lean Copy Share Image
I think people remember pictures not dialogue. That's why I like pictures. — David Lean Copy Share Image
Film is a dramatised reality and it is the director's job to make it appear real... an audience should not be conscious of technique. — David Lean Copy Share Image
My distinguishing talent is the ability to put people under the microscope, perhaps to go one or two layers farther down than some other… — David Lean Copy Share Image
Social responsibility above the level of family, or at most of tribe, requires imagination-- devotion, loyalty, all the higher virtues -- which a man… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
Reader, if you are gifted with nerves like mine, aspire to any character but that of a wit. — Charles Lamb Copy Share Image
I'm often moved by the circumstances around some of my characters, but I don't think I've actually cried watching myself. — Kate Winslet Copy Share Image
When you're on a daytime drama you get one page, you better damn well know your character. You better know what she would do… — David Hudgins Copy Share Image
It can sometimes make people fold into themselves and kind of run away, but I think in this case these characters are being forced… — Emily Deschanel Copy Share Image
If you are well-mannered towards those whose views are similar to yours, you may be said to exhibit a fairly good character. But, if… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Democracy is based on the conviction that man has the moral and intellectual capacity, as well as the inalienable right, to govern himself with… — Harry S. Truman Copy Share Image
In the fight between biology and morality, biology has commonly won in the end. — Semir Zeki Copy Share Image
Your looks don't make you pretty, it's the person inside who makes you pretty! — Aaron Chan Copy Share Image
I'm not a huge social media kind of guy, so I don't really know, I don't really ever get... at least in real life,… — Freddie Stroma Copy Share Image
If you stood me in a costume next to a computer graphic of the same-looking character, I think there would be a difference. And… — Warwick Davis Copy Share Image
