Above Quote by Joaquin Phoenix

The cool thing about doing films and being different characters is that it's new everyday and new every project. So, you're always learning something…

— Julianne Hough

You don't go around thinking about how characters in a movie, in the stories you make up, relate to people in general.

— Ethan Coen

It's not very often that you get to come up with ideas and bring your take on the character and then actually have writers,…

— Madchen Amick

I research the role, and if it's a literary character, I read the book, and if it's an historical figure, I research documents and…

— Luke Evans

If you are a writer/director, the [movie] characters are a part of yourself.

— Juan Diego Solanas

I don't think I do any formal research. Life is my research. I always begin with a character. I write a chapter about the…

— Patricia MacLachlan

Often you find the character through the things they say. How they talk about other people, how they describe themselves - which is very…

— Richard Armitage

When you get into a film, it is one story and one set development of a character, and you are able to delve into…

— Alexander Gould

If you know what it is before you even start, it's not as interesting. Central to being an actor is pretending, and the adventure…

— Willem Dafoe

I think that when you're making a story... that's based on somebody, the filmmaker has his duty to do his research.

— Ryan Coogler

I try to do as much as possible for every character. Some of them, it is easier to do the research because you have…

— Penelope Cruz

When I do a film, it is about how I become a character.

— Sai Pallavi