Quotes About Portrayal

I don't wanna be like somebody that just depicts black characters where drugs and guns are just a majority of what they have to do.

Our public portrayal of fathers has shifted during my life. TV fathers have 'evolved' from real people like Sheriff Andy Taylor, Beaver's dad Ward Cleaver and Heathcliff 'Cliff' Huxtable, to cartoon dads like Homer Simpson and Seth MacFarlane's caricatures in 'American Dad!' and 'Family Guy.'

Anybody who works with me knows this: I always repeat wardrobe in my characters. We're trying to play real people.

I think a lot of times on TV we see caricatures - that's what's funny.

I think a caricature is different than a character.

As a cartoonist, I'm a caricaturist. First you find out what somebody really looks like, and then you find out what they 'really' look like.

I always believed in my characters. I lived them.

What people adore about superhero movies is the signal quality of the Christopher Nolan films - their complete lack of irony when it comes to the portrayal of heroism and the need for heroes to confront evil.

I've always wanted to be Batman, but I don't naturally tend towards Batman. I tend towards Robin, but I did get to play Superman.

I generally find an affinity with a lot of the people I play and I suppose if I didn't feel an affinity for them then they wouldn't be particularly good performances.

I hate stories in which a person has an occupation and you never see him working at it, like all those marvelous Cary Grant movies where he's a surgeon, and you never see him in the operating room.

Surrealism is my stamp. I have a post graduate diploma in theatre and I was introduced to this concept and it stuck by me because it speaks of the hypocritical nature of the reality. We are something more inside and I want to portray the pluralities in thought.

Disaster movies and the media continue to portray ordinary people as hysterical or vicious in the face of calamity. We believe these sources telling us we are victims or brutes more than we trust our own experience

In the States, the Abdication story, for example, is portrayed as The World Well Lost For Love while the English, of a certain type anyway, see it only as childish, irresponsible and absurd.

A flattering painter, who made it his care To draw men as they ought to be, not as they are.

Movies portray men as tough guys.

I mean, before this, I would have said playing Bill Gates, because I'm playing someone obviously who is alive and is the richest man in the world. That was a heavy responsibility.

I am fond of depicting the lives of young folks for one thing, and if you have parts for girls or young men, you must absolutely have young people to fill them - that is generally acknowledged now.

A man obsessed with failure has succeeded better than others in portraying it.

The general image of a man in an American sitcom is like a complete moron. You'd think the industry was run by a feminist cabal.

I don't really think there's much difference between a character actor and a leading man besides aesthetics.

If you look at the range of Hollywood movies playing in most cities in the developing world, you'd hate the America they portray, too.

I'm not sure that it's easy to find very interesting female characters in Hollywood movies.

When you see violence in movies in general, it's very quick and painless, which isn't what it's like.