Cory Doctorow Quotes

With 'Noontide Toll', I wanted to cater to a single story but also collectively more than a single story.

What I'd look for are roles in which the heroine's character has substance rather than just glamour.

The action genre is not always the most synonymous with character development.

You know, the point of a novel - or to me, the point of a novel, the gift of a novel is to go really deeply inside people's lives and inside their personal experiences.

If a movie has more characters than an audience can keep track of, the audience will get confused and lose interest in the story.

It's a luxury to be able to tell a long form story. I love novels, and I love to have a long relationship with characters.

I think often times on Joss Whedon's shows he can make you hate a character for a period and then love the character. He does it effortlessly.

I am drawn, as a reader, to detail-drenched stories about human lives affected as much by the internal as by the external, the kind of fiction that Jane Smiley nicely describes as 'first and foremost about how individuals fit, or don't fit, into their social worlds.'

When I create a character, it happens in layers. The more I write and revise, the better I understand the characters.

A simple story filmed with limited sets can often be more effective than a costly extravaganza. provided it had depth and allows the audience to identify with the character.

The cool thing about Kyle Killen, he writes really defined characters. I was a big fan of 'Awake' and also 'Lone Star.' I just think that he's a really, really special writer, and complex and deep, and a really smart dude.

I like films to be pure cinema, but I also like them to provide a snapshot of a family, a society or a character - something that can nourish you as a human being as well as an actor.

In a short story, you can use someone - we're only going to be with that person for maybe 10 pages, and they can have sort of a one note personality. And in a novel, you need to have arrows pointing more than one direction for that person.

I am good when there is something central about the character. There is always a human theme I attach myself to. I am really looking for something that is moving or enlightening or something with depth as an actor. I look for these kinds of roles.

One thing George R. R. Martin does is surprising things to main characters. But he says so himself.

Your structure and format may not be perfect, and you may not have picked the perfect franchise, but if I pick up a script, and the characters are real, whole, complicated and come from a place of somebody who really is feeling it, that's what people remember.

The idea behind a dish - the delight and the surprise - makes a difference. Great literature surprises and delights, and provokes us. It isn't just 'Here's the facts - boy meets girl, boy loses girl, boy gets girl.' It's how you tell it.

My films are very rooted in specific people's point of view. Some film-makers give a more global point of view, like God looking down at the characters.

You need the audience to become invested in the characters and in order to become invested, they need to identify with the characters... and that's why the characters need to be real.

So the characters that I choose, I like to make sure that they have depth and that they have some sort of bite. It's more fun.

Once he became a series character, I made the conscious choice that he would never act like a series character, never wink at the reader, never pull his punches. Better for him, better for me.

If a film isn't really talking about who we are and what our psychologies are, then we're probably not that interested in it, actually.

I'm never interested in movies where you don't care about the people you're watching, and that's my biggest quibble about horror, that kids have gotten stupider and stupider.

I love complex characters - strong females who are vulnerable but have a life and soul. That's what I'm drawn to and what I enjoy most.

All topics, issues, and subjects in 'The Room' add to the depth of the characters in the movie, and they are equally important.