Karen Gillan Quotes

For me to play any true person in a film based on a true story, I always want to make sure that it doesn't mock and it certainly doesn't trivialize the events that took place.

I think every role you take on, you should take on the responsibility of doing the best representation of that person or that character or that role. When it is a human being that has actually existed, and it is a person that people know of, yeah, you feel an even more amount of pressure to do a good job.

I think, first of all, every time you want to play somebody who is real is always challenging and always scary, because you are given a responsibility of someone's real life.

Setting is the bedrock of your story. If you choose a real-world backdrop, be certain you get your facts straight.

I always like when things are loosely based on real events. That always makes it more interesting because there's a lot of research you can do.

Lies are beginning to be solidified and made into historical fact…. The truth is all I want for history.

Playing somebody who's still alive is very interesting.

Young people deserve to be portrayed with depth.

Playing a real person, it does add an extra level of thoughtfulness. You're portraying someone who actually existed, so instead of saying, like, 'OK, I think this would make the scene better,' it's more a question of, 'What do I think the real Jeffrey Dahmer would do?'

And I think when you're playing someone who is a real person, it's extremely important to take the time and put in the effort to learn about who they are to be able to respectfully portray that.

Anything in which you're playing someone real does make you feel responsible for making the story as true as it can be.

That's always important to us, is being truthful. Not guessing, not making any assumptions. Just coming at it with knowledge.

People are not likely to lie on the Internet about the atomic number of Rubidium, but they will lie about history.

I like to portray things as close to the bone as possible.

The best way to honor real people when you play them is to try to tell the story of their dynamics and the struggles that they're dealing with rather than lose sight of the connections and personal relationships, and do a really good job at an accent.

It's much easier to conjure characters strictly from your imagination than to have to think about whether you're representing people in a truthful way.

I think it's fair to ask how truthful a film is as opposed to how factual it is.

Every time you do a true story - and I've done a few - you have to look in the mirror and say, 'That's close enough. I'm comfortable with this.' You're always going to compress time; you're going to change the order of things. But I don't think you want to tell a big lie. You want to think that you're embracing the truth.

Every fact in my films is true. And yet how often do I have to read over and over again about supposed falsehoods?

Whenever you have a character in which one of his defining qualities is his sexuality, it's always challenging, because you don't want to bring in someone who's going to play that in a phony way.

If you bill something as a memoir, you're implying that everything in it is true.

When you're playing Marilyn Monroe, you have a responsibility to look and sound like her that you don't when you're playing people who weren't ever in the public eye.

Scripts can be slick and structured, but do they always contain the truth?

'Inherent Vice' was a novel that already existed, and in 'Steve Jobs,' I was playing a real person; in those situations, you do feel an added pressure to please.

I can do no more than tell the truth.