An intuitive grasp of your character is formed by exploring scenes of profound emotional import-moments of overwhelming shame, joy, fear, pride, regret, forgiveness.

Characterization requires a constant back-and-forth between the exterior events of the story and the inner life of the character.

Compelling characters are not cogs in the machine of your plot; they are human beings to whom the story happens.

Whether we know it or not, our minds and hearts are populated by all the characters we will ever need - though we may disassemble them and rearrange the parts into composites for variation.

The problem lies not with genre but with formula, which consists of seeing genre conventions as restrictions rather than mere guidelines, ends in themselves rather than possibilities.

Night is my time...am not a vampire but i am a Night Rider....!

You can think of Hollywood as high school. TV actors are freshmen, comedy actors are maybe juniors, and dramatic actors - they're the cool seniors.

Better a long life of toil than a short one of ease.

Take every day, love every day, enjoy every day, even if you have a crappy day, find the fun things in it.

Poetry is essentially the discovery, the love, the passion for the name of everything.

Math and reading are my only weaknesses - other than that, Im perfect.

When one thing ends, you put it away and start from scratch on the next thing.

It's perfectly obvious that somebody's responsible and somebody's innocent. Otherwise it [justice] makes no sense at all.

I may cause someone to feel badly, not because I'm doing something to them, but because the way in which I see might cause pain. But I am not doing the hurting.

The bitter past, more welcome is the sweet.