Abandoned Quote by Jake Gyllenhaal

There are so many different ways to develop a character - physically, mentally, spiritually and all of that - but the research was really…

— Abbie Cornish

I think the best way to become a character is by osmosis as opposed to thinking directly about stuff. The more material that you…

— Shailene Woodley

I tend not to approach things intellectually at first. Maybe after the fact i can look at it and see ultimately what it's doing.…

— Sam Levinson

There are a lot of techniques for developing a character.

— David Walton

We have a writing process that's very much you try to create the character in a complicated way and then you let the story…

— Aaron Ehasz

When you practice Buddhism, you have to always self-reflect, and you can't avoid your problems. That makes me understand human beings better. I feel…

— Vinessa Shaw

Trying to identify and understand, as opposed to judging, is very important for me, in approaching characters.

— Michael Fassbender

I've been practising Buddhism for forty years, and that's what has led me to this path of discovering my own humanity and recognizing the…

— Herbie Hancock

There are so many ways to approach a character. You have to figure out the similarities between you and the character, build on them,…

— Sushant Singh Rajput

As with most of my work, I started from the abstract, from research, building an intellectual model that slowly became internalized when the characters…

— Lauren Groff

“The Buddha’s process of investigation can be challenging. This is not because his teachings are abstract but rather because they urge us to deeply…

— Elizabeth Mattis-Namgyel

I always begin with a character or characters, and then try to think up as much action for them as possible.

— John Irving