"The characters can't be wittier than people are in real life. They have to be character witty."
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"It probably says something really clinically terrible about my character that I need to get up on a stage and go 'Ra ra ra' in front of people."
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"I think the only thing that we know how to do is look at our characters and ask what is the character doing right now and what do we need to do, and tell it from that place. If we really make it character driven and theme driven, I think we're going to offer up something new for the audience."
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"I really am a character actor, in my heart of hearts, because I really do like developing characters and painting a past for them."
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"We face a hostile ideology global in scope, atheistic in character, ruthless in purpose and insidious in method."
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"I have spent my life in the study of military strength as a deterrent to war, and in the character of military armaments necessary to win a war. The study of the first of these questions is still profitable, but we are rapidly getting to the point that no war can be won."
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"As men and women of character and of faith in the soundness of democratic methods, we must work like dogs to justify that faith."
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"[On Edna Ferber's Ice Palace] ... the book, which is going to be a movie, has the plot and characters of a book which is going to be a movie."
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"If we hear, in our inner ear, a voice saying we are failures, we are losers, we will never amount to anything, this is the voice of Satan trying to convince the bride that the groom does not love her. This is not the voice of God. God woos us with kindness. He changes out of character with the passion of his love."
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"The inciting incident is how you get (characters) to do something. It's the doorway through which they can't return, you know. The story takes care of the rest."
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"Robert McKee says humans naturally seek comfort and stability. Without an inciting incident that disrupts their comfort, they won’t enter into a story. They have to get fired from their job or be forced to sign up for a marathon. A ring has to be purchased. A home has to be sold. The character has to jump into the story, into the discomfort and the fear, otherwise the story will never happen."
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"But the people who took the bus didn't experience the city as we experienced the city. The pain made the city more beautiful. The story made us different characters than we would have been if we had skipped the story and showed up at the ending an easier way."
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"A story is a character who wants something and overcomes conflict to get it."
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"It is worthy of note that the Chinese and Japanese characters for money and gold are the same."
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"You don't have to kill somebody to play a murderer. You have to read the script and interpret the character."
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"The number one reason for the death of young actors' careers is people get so used to seeing them playing that one character that they can't accept them as anyone else."
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"As an actor, I'm limited to re-in acting someone else's vision or portraying a fictitious character."
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"When I'm acting, I just want to be the character and not have to think of any film technicalities."
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"It was only after I untied my girlfriend from being face down on the bed that I learned her screaming, 'Asshole!' was a statement about my character and not an invitation or request."
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"I can't have composite characters. I can't attribute dialogue to someone based simply on my memory and not based on notes taken at the time that the words were spoken."
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