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I did not have a mobile phone in 1993. No one did, except the occasional banker or Hollywood star seeming smart, or the main character in 'American Psycho.' In 1993, every day was 'let's get lost.' I could walk Greenwich Village for hours and not be found.
Elizabeth Wurtzel / Writer
Character
Greenwich
Greenwich Village
Hollywood
Hours
Lost
Mobile
Occasional
Psycho
Seeming
Smart
Village
Did
Banker
Star
Could
Phone
Every Day
Except
Walk
Hollywood Star
Main
Main Character
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I don't want to work just for the sake of working. Generally, if a good script comes in, I read it, and if it appeals to me, it appeals to me. And it doesn't have to be anything - it doesn't have to be the main character; it doesn't have to be a huge part.
Alison Doody /
Appeals
Character
Huge
Sake
Work Good Me
Work Good Character
Part
Read
Working
Generally
Good Script
Huge Part
Main
Main Character
Script
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My dad didn't have a formal education, but he had a wonderful vocabulary. So in 'Harvest,' I wanted my main character to be an innately intelligent man who would have the vocabulary to say whatever he wanted in the same way as lots of working-class people can.
Jim Crace / Writer
Formal
Formal Education
Harvest
Intelligent
Intelligent Man
Vocabulary
Working Class
Lots
Innately
Main
Main Character
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It's always scary when you're doing a sequel to a film, because you don't want to just repeat the first film in a different location like most sequels. You want to do something totally different, and something that actually expands the world of the main character.
Efren Ramirez /
Location
Scary
Main Character
Repeat
Sequel
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I'm quite sure Shakespeare enjoyed writing Iago much more than he did writing Othello. If you write about someone you love, what the hell are you supposed to say about that person? It's much better to have something between you and your main character that grates.
Henning Mankell / Crime Writer
Enjoyed
Main
Main Character
Othello
Shakespeare
Supposed
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When you are reading about a book, you focus on the main character, of course. When you have something in common with them and connect with them, you remember the lessons they learned, and then you can apply them to your life. So you can live the best life you can.
Marley Dias /
Book
Common
Focus
Lessons
Reading
Apply
Connect
Course
Main
Main Character
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I like books that have razor-sharp plotting that snaps and moves along. It's not about the main character being different at the end. I don't want my main character to be different in the end. I still want him committed to his ideas, to be steadfast, true and loyal.
Brad Thor / Novelist
Being Different
Committed
Loyal
Snaps
Steadfast
Be Different
In The End
Main
Main Character
Plotting
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I'll tell you what I really enjoy. We all go to the movies, we all watch television, we know what they're about, how they work. When the main character is a cop or a spy, it's very exciting, but I also very much enjoy when the main characters are nobodies - a trucker.
Nathan Fillion / Actor
Character
Cop
Spy
Television
Work Movies Character
Main Character
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My favorite video game when I was a kid was this game called 'Metroid' and the main character of 'Metroid' was Samus. Samus has this body armor suit, helmet and everything except at the end of the game, the helmet comes off and it was revealed that Samus was actually a woman.
Laura Jane Grace / Musician
Armor
Helmet
Main Character
Revealed
Suit
Video Game
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Working on 'Nightmare Before Christmas,' I had endless arguments, like the studio saying, 'You can't have a main character that's got no eyeballs!' 'How is anybody going to feel for somebody with just eyesockets?' You know? So, it's those kind of things that really wear you down.
Tim Burton / Film Director
Christmas
Endless
Eyeballs
Nightmare
Anybody
Wear
Main
Main Character
Studio
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While problems in a film are fairly easy to identify, the sources of those problems are often extraordinarily difficult to assess. A mystifying plot twist or a less-than-credible change of heart in our main character is often caused by subtle underlying issues elsewhere in the story.
Edwin Catmull / Computer Scientist
Elsewhere
Plot
Subtle
Caused
Fairly
Assess
Extraordinarily
Identify
Main Character
Sources
Twist
Underlying
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From the start I was a kid who read 'Goosebumps', and that led me to Stephen King, and then I saw 'Aliens,' and 'Night of the Living Dead,' the original. And with 'Night of the Living Dead' I was like, 'Oh my god, there's a black person who's the main character. Does anybody see that?'
Misha Green /
Black
Character
Goosebumps
Night
Alien
Anybody
Oh
Original
Dead
Read
Saw
Led
Main
Main Character
Oh My God
Start
Stephen King
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Of course, 'The Last Stand' has a villain who is traveling to the border to fulfill his own desires, but it's more about the main character. The Sheriff putting a stop to this villain and defending his town. 'The Last Stand' is more about protecting something. About protecting a value.
Kim Jee-Woon / Film Director
Villain
Border
Defending
Sheriff
Desires
Fulfill
Main Character
Protecting
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If you've seen 'Spirited Away', 'Spirited Away' is set in a very, very Japanese sensibility. And so, to Japanese audiences, when Sen would walk up, the main character, and look at this big building with a flag on it with Japanese writing on it, everyone in Japan would know what that is.
John Lasseter / Animator
Character
Japan
Sensibility
Spirited
Audiences
Seen
Set
Flag
Walk
Main
Main Character
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I think 'The Searcher' is a departure from my first because it's less grounded in religion and is far more rooted in the mythic tradition: more of an existential thriller where the main character is actually the central mystery, and his journey is all about trying to figure himself out.
Simon Toyne /
Journey
Religion
Character
Departure
Existential
Grounded
Mystery
Rooted
Tradition
Actually
Less
Central
Far
Figure
Himself
Main
Main Character
Searcher
Thriller
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My first two books, I was very close to my main character, stuck inside their head. And then with 'Arrogance,' I broke into many different voices. I introduce many different characters, and that helped me to develop a confidence to move between different characters, between different voices.
Joanna Scott /
Confidence
Arrogance
Broke
Different Characters
Stuck
Develop
Helped
Introduce
Main
Main Character
Voices
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I basically drew my own family. My father's name is Homer. My mother's name is Margaret. I have a sister Lisa and another sister Maggie, so I drew all of them. I was going to name the main character Matt, but I didn't think it would go over well in a pitch meeting, so I changed the name to Bart.
Matt Groening / Cartoonist
Sister
Changed
Character
Father
Maggie
Mother
Bart
Pitch
Drew
Homer
Main Character
Margaret
Matt
Meeting
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I was inspired to become an actor from theater I'd seen, so I assumed I'd do a lot of theater. But when I left Guidhall, the first thing I did was a short film - I played the main character. And I loved it. I love working on camera. I love the smallness of it and the detail and the routine of it.
Chloe Pirrie /
Routine
Assumed
Detail
First Thing
Main Character
Short Film
The First Thing
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Generally, if a good script comes in I read it, and if it appeals to me, it appeals to me. And it doesn't have to be anything - it doesn't have to be the main character, it doesn't have to be a huge part. It could be a nice cameo - anything that I think is good and surrounded by good, enthusiastic people.
Alison Doody /
Appeals
Character
Enthusiastic
Huge
Good Me People
Good Character Me
Cameo
Read
Generally
Good Script
Huge Part
Main
Main Character
Script
Surrounded
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My friends once told me I remind them of the main character from the American comedy series 'Curb Your Enthusiasm.' I thought they must mean a sunny, affable girl-next-door, but instead I was confronted with Larry David! Crabby, moody, perversely neurotic Larry David. And the thing is, my friends were right.
Anushka Sharma / Film Actress
Affable
Curb
Enthusiasm
Larry
Moody
Neurotic
Sunny
Character Your Me
David
Confronted
Main Character
Remind
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I've been acting my whole life. I have this huge imagination! I'm a dancer and my mom's a dance teacher, and I was always performing and entertaining people. I'd go to see live theatre or a movie, and I'd become the main character for a few days afterwards. I loved being somebody new for a temporary amount of time.
Natasha Calis / Actress
Mom
Teacher
Character
Dancer
Entertaining
Performing
Theatre
Life Time Mom
Afterwards
Life Time Teacher
Entertaining People
Main Character
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When writers don't know what to do with a character, they build up the supporting cast and universe to kind of hide that fact. After a while, you can no longer see the character for the underbrush. When that happens, you need to bring out the weed-whacker to clear some of that away so you can focus on the main character.
J. Michael Straczynski / Writer
Character
Focus
Weed
Hide
Main Character
Supporting
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Super Saiyan' is a term from 'Dragonball Z,' the most important TV show ever. The main character, Goku, is a member of the alien race known as Saiyans. When Saiyans train to a certain level - and get really angry - they transform into what's known as a Super Saiyan: their hair gets all spiky and they get crazy, crazy strong.
Spencer Dinwiddie /
Alien
Certain Level
Main Character
Transform
Tv Show
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In the biographical novel, there's only one person involved. I, the author, spend two to five years becoming the main character. I do that so by the time you get to the bottom of Page 2 or 3, you forget your name, where you live, your profession and the year it is. You become the main character of the book. You live the book.
Irving Stone / Writer
Becoming
Bottom
Five
Involved
Novel
Profession
Time Character Your
Author
By The Time
Spend
Main
Main Character
Page
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I don't know quite how a story develops in my head. It is a bit chaotic. If I am working on a series, one of the main characters at least is already in existence as well as some setting and minor characters. Finding the other main character can be a challenge. Sometimes this character already exists in a minor role in another book.
Mary Balogh / Novelist
Chaotic
Setting
Develops
Exists
Main Character
Minor
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In 'Gravity,' nearly everything is a metaphor for the main character. The way I tend to approach a film is that character and background are equally important; one informs the other. Here, Sandra Bullock is caught between Earth and the void of the universe, just floating there in between. We use the debris as a metaphor for adversity.
Alfonso Cuaron / Film Director
Adversity
Approach
Caught
Character
Debris
Earth
Film
Gravity
Important
Metaphor
Universe
Void
Background
Between
Nearly
Here
Equally
Informs
Main
Main Character
Other
Sandra
Sandra Bullock
Tend
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Our main character is Klem Ristovych, the most senior detective in the MCPD. Klem's a dinosaur, the oldest cop working the Fuse, and nobody can believe she hasn't retired yet. Hell, she can hardly believe it herself. But what else is she going to do? Sit at home and watch soap operas all day? She'd throw herself out of an airlock first.
Antony Johnston /
Cop
Fuse
Retired
Senior
Soap
Soap Operas
All Day
Detective
Dinosaur
Hardly
Herself
Main Character
Oldest
Operas
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My book 'The Exciting Adventures of Boo' was first published when I was fifteen. It is a children's book with ten different stories. In each story, the main character Boo learns a lesson - one of the ten most important lessons I learned as a kid. I also donated all the money from my books I personally sold to my local ASPCA Animal Shelter.
Manika / Singer
Animal
Character
Different
Exciting
Fifteen
Shelter
Stories
Ten
Adventures
Also
Boo
Donated
Each
Learned
Learns
Lesson
Local
Main
Main Character
Personally
Published
Sold
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Your opening should give the reader a person to focus on. In a short story, this person should turn up almost immediately; he should be integral to the story's main action; he should be an individual, not just a type. In a novel, the main character may take longer to appear: Anna Karenina doesn't show up in her own novel until chapter eighteen.
Nancy Kress / Fiction Writer
Anna
Eighteen
Opening
Reader
Short Story
Appear
Chapter
Immediately
Integral
Main Character
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