Quotes About Portrayal

I think there used to be more respect toward young people in movies. John Hughes really respects his characters and they're given their emotional weight. He does so even with kids, but especially with teenagers.

Teens are being portrayed with depth because they are multidimensional, and they deserve to be portrayed as such.

I have played many negative roles in films, and television gives me an opportunity to break through this image and portray another side to me.

I'm not a straight man, but I play one on television.

Today's television sitcoms...the father is typically depicted as a clumsy buffoon, an inane and even unnecessary appendage. In creating that caricature, producers and directors have done irreparable damage to the God-ordained image of what may be one of the most significant roles and offices in eternity - that of a father, that of a real man.

This is not to say that the Muslims were more brutal or less tolerant than were Christians or Jews, for it was a brutal and intolerant age. It is to say that efforts to portray Muslims as enlightened supporters of multiculturalism are at best ignorant.

Oddly, he expressed affection for William Rockefeller, whom he portrayed as solid, laconic, and far more trustworthy than Rogers.

How does one balance the fallen and redeemed aspects of life in the artistic portrayal of human experience in the world?

The ability to portray people in still life and in motion requires the highest measure of intuition and talent.

What I have done is to draw and redraw my portrait in front of the backdrop of Japan. I have exemplified what Helen Mears devoted Japan, Mirror for Americans to. You look into this country and find yourself reflected. It is not a simple process. You can do this only if you describe the place as it is. Only then, through what you emphasize and what you do not, does your own form become visible. I am the empty places in my books.

The ability to portray people in still life and in motion requires the highest measure of intuition and talent.

Portraying Pocahontas' story well was important to me because she was a real person and these were real events in her life.

Violence is so terribly fast . . . the most perverse thing about the movies is the way they portray it in slow motion, allowing it to be something sensuous . . . the viewer's lips slightly wet as the scene plays out. Violence is nothing like that. It is lightning fast, chaotic, and totally intangible.

A lot of movies treat kids like idiots.

When you do a film with somebody who's my age - which is always the role of a mother or a grandmother - despite of well-defined characters, you don't get to play a very large part as the main leads get prominence.

I like really, properly detailed, described characters.

A lot of people get Chicago wrong. I've developed this protective feeling about how we're portrayed, and at the same time, I'm acutely aware of the issues we face and the root causes of these issues.

I've always had difficulties with female characters.

It's more difficult playing a real-life person than a fictional character - you can go easy on yourself with a fictional character.

It's one thing to play a character that's fictitious - it's quite another to play somebody that is alive and well.

You try to get to know your character as best as you can before you start filming - what's written and not written.

Whoever portrays me on screen need not necessarily be a look alike. Any hero could play my part.

There is something sad about malevolence, to be wicked. I have always tried to make that come across in the villains I have played.

All movies, when they're about the music business, tend to have a bit of a wide latitude in terms of how things really were.