Nathan Fillion Quotes

I'm trying to use the camera to get into people's heads. I use camera techniques a lot to articulate character.

If I'm doing my job as an actor, the audience knows everything I know about the character.

My dad is a great writer. Naturally talented, naturally charming. He embodies that back-in-the-day cool.

Interestingly that some of the characters did not turn out the way Jim and Allen had envisioned them.

With a film, I do my best to understand the author's intentions and try to bring the characters to life.

Being young isn't about age, it's about being a free spirit. You can meet someone of 20 who's boring and old, or you can meet someone of 70 who's youthful and exciting. I met Fred Astaire when he was 72 and I was 21, and I fell in love with him. He certainly was a free spirit.

You can't just trust to luck; you have to really listen to what that character is telling you.

I don't follow anything that's said about him much, but the Uwe Boll that I know is just a really cool guy. He's just a really quiet, kind and passionate filmmaker who really believes in what he's doing. Like any director that an actor wants to work with, you want a director who's passionate and believes in the work that he's doing.

Character is primary. What happens as far as plot and events is not as intriguing to me as what's happening inside this particular person.

My favorite part is the preparation because you read on the page, you get this character.

The cool thing about pro wrestling is we do a lot more acting as far as characters in general than MMA. I know a lot of people like the MMA fighters because they like the rugged look.

I don't have a great respect for reality or getting the 'facts' as a means of putting together a story.

I like men who are very cool but who are also so brilliant that they are almost insane. Sean Penn, Gary Oldman, Bob Dylan, Tom Waits - men who would be flipping burgers if they hadn't found an outlet for their brilliant mind-sets.

I was always kind of serious. It's nice to be able to play a complete bad boy who's the polar opposite to who I am.

You have to have sympathy for and an empathy with a character in order to play them.

I love to evoke the bones and meat and thoughts of characters.

I always find that really interesting, you know, when I get to see characters that I love in TV and film and theater around their family.

That's what acting is - it's about... having the courage to allow your audience into the private moments of your characters' lives.

'Ludacris' is something that I made up. It just kind of describes me. Sometimes I have like a split personality. Sometimes I'm cool, calm, and collected, and other times I'm beyond crazy.

We think that - as kids, you know - that kids make up stories and live in a sort of fictional place, but that, as grown-ups, we tell the truth and live in fact. But, of course, the reality is we take the facts that we know, and then we fill in all the blanks.

Making movies seemed so impossible as far as getting my ideas funded.

In a way, there's nothing new under the sun, so anything you write about has been written about by other people. All you can do is bring yourself to it, bring as much honesty as you can to it.

I've been rewritten on past projects and thought, 'That's not what she was - she was this really powerful woman, and there's nothing wrong with that.' I'm going to keep writing them, and hopefully people will start making them.

I think where a writer falls on the realism/non-realism continuum has a lot to do with their sight, as in, 'This is how I see the world.' And it seems my sight is off-kilter and kind of strange, but I come by that naturally; I'm not consciously pushing toward a particular point on the continuum.

I think a film should be appropriate to what it's trying to say or the characters in it.