I prefer when movies target my heart instead of my mind.
I knew the big following 'Stranger Things' had, and I really liked the show, but even if I hadn't known what the show was, I still really related to the character, and I really liked the material.
I think we invite people into our living rooms every week through the television because we have emotional connections to them, or they make us laugh or reflect some part of ourselves that we want to live in.
Empathy is not as complicated when you have some aspects in common with your character; it's not impossible to know someone who's like you in many ways but different in one. This is true especially if you are a reader. Reading makes you accustomed to inhabiting other lives and sensibilities.
I'm hoping that the legacy of 'Girlfriends' is just that you can enjoy and connect to Joan, Maya, Toni, Lynn, and William and see your humanity reflected in theirs. That's what I'm hoping that it did.
You have to find something you relate to in every character.
Love stories should be relatable.
To write convincingly, I think you must be able to relate, in some way, to what a character is experiencing.
I think every time I can find a story that touches that human nerve, and even sometimes makes you cry, I think that I've found something that I'll like very much.
I think, above all, the characters in my novels feel universal to the readers.
It's so rare that you see a movie that you are genuinely moved by on a real level, and you relate to it, and you come out feeling uplifted.
I cry in movies a lot, and over books.
I prefer theatre to television - you get to feel the love.
I love stories about people that, whatever situation they're in, you can relate to them in a way.
The ideal way to approach a character is to find something in yourself that relates in some way.
If people can come out of 'Bin Roye' feeling even just a little bit of what this character felt, and touched your heart, that's enough for me.
When I started my hotel company, Joie de Vivre, at the age of 26, I saw this venture as my ticket to freedom.
I love relatable stories.
The failures of other genres to provide an emotional connection with some of their characters and narratives gives memoir a toehold.
I don't really try to judge any character that I play, afterwards I figure it out, but while I'm working on the character, I have to find something in them to relate to.
When you really get it right in acting, it's an act of empathy. You feel less distant from others, and that is really exciting.
It's a slight stretch of the imagination but most people are alike in most ways so I've never had any trouble identifying with the character that I'm playing.
