The great attraction to 'American Gangster' is these two great characters who are absolute paradoxes within their own sphere.
Ridley Scott
Your landscape in a western is one of the most important characters the film has. The best westerns are about man against his own landscape.
I always shoot my movies with score as certainly part of the dialogue. Music is dialogue. People don't think about it that way, but music is... →
What always leads me in terms of my movies are characters.
Tony Scott
My stories are pretty simplistic, but the characters are always complex and always right, and that comes from the script and my research and... →
My characters always like themselves.
Amy Sedaris
To purposely concoct older characters of a sunny disposition would be as much of a solecism as deliberately fabricating arrhythmic blacks... →
Will Self
My novels tend to come about from a fusion of two big ideas, creating a critical mass that then fissions, throwing off hundreds of other particles... →
I am careful about fiction. A novel is not a tract or an essay. If I want to write about land reforms, or Hindu-Muslim relations, or position of... →
Vikram Seth
You can take charge, kick ass, do whatever you have to do and it's okay. You can blow people up. These are things that are okay for cartoon... →
Joan Severance