Character Quote by Forest Whitaker

I submerged myself in all the information that I could find about Idi Amin. I mean, before I left Los Angeles, I was studying…

— Forest Whitaker

I am drawn to characters so full of internal contradictions. Idi Amin was one. I loved writing him.

— Peter Morgan

I started by studying Kiswahili to learn the dialect. Then, I studied tapes, documentaries, footage, and audio cassettes of Idi Amin's speeches. And I…

— Forest Whitaker

What helped me a lot was that I chose an American lead protagonist, because that liberated a lot from my own knowledge. If I…

— Karan Bajaj

It is very grand and sumptuous and awesome to look at but it was really about the characters for me.

— Emmy Rossum

I always think of my characters as alive human beings and try to generate questions around their life and understand their socio-political background. It…

— Abhishek Banerjee

Here was a man with loads of talent, loads of ability, lots of love to give; but that had been stifled and aborted. I…

— Michael Zaslow

I was really bummed when I got to the last one of Tony Hillerman Navajo detective books.

— Dave Barry

In the past, I was always drawn to really quirky, idiosyncratic characters.

— Miranda Otto

I love spending time researching a character and reading about them.

— Felicity Jones

Fascinating, often hilarious, always devastatingly truthful, The Inconvenient Indian is destined to become a classic of historical narrative. For those who wish to better…

— Joseph Boyden

I wanted to know who my people were. And I - I think like a lot of Americans - thought that I could find…

— Alex Wagner