Quotes About People

I've made many films and only a few times I've played real people.

I'm a documentary filmmaker by training. You got to start with the real people and the real place.

I've done quite a few things based on real events or real people, and I think that's always really interesting that you can read about them or, if you're lucky, you can meet them.

I think people are interesting enough. People with mental illness, or just real people going through real circumstances in life.

People have said, 'You don't need to do any more biopics. You don't need to play any more real people.' I don't agree with that.

I'm writing about real things. Real people. Real characters. You have to believe what I write about is true or you wouldn't pay any attention at all. Sometimes it's me, or a composite of me and other people. Sometimes it's not me at all.

A novel that features real people is complicated, but in the end, that extra challenge is all for the good.

I try to play real people who inspire me through something in their journey.

I think, really, what I'm interested in is whole women, real people.

I think hell's a real place where real people spend a real eternity.

We made this movie for $17, and nobody got anything. So it never dawned on me that we would get real people.

My characters are fictional. I get ideas from real people, sometimes, but my characters always exist only in my head.

At the core, I try to write characters who are real people with real insecurities, fears, hopes, and dreams, which is why hopefully readers can identify with them.

When we think of the myth of the settling of the West, this is our creation myth. But because we think of it as mythology, not as real people interacting with other real people, we ignore the cost of human lives and blood.

I do comedy for real people.

The 'Islam vs. the West' dialogue ceased to be about real people a long time ago.

Actors are seen as celebrities, but they're just real people with families.

The difficulty with telling stories about real people is you have to find a way of mixing yourself into the matter.

The characters are whole, real people to me that I'm getting to know, and since real people are all flawed, so are my characters, I hope.

Real people are complex, contradictory, and have their own motivations - they can't just be mouthpieces for the writers' point of view.

It's a huge responsibility writing about people who are alive. It's the thing about writing that keeps me awake at night: dramatising real-life events with real people.

Policy is about real people and real stories, and sometimes we forget that.

I love the true life stories and the biopics - people say I'm pigeonholed, but it's a fantastic kind of pigeonhole - but it's tough to then go and direct it because I know all the real people.

That, to me, is the core of fantasy - real people in a crazy environment, dealing with crazy problems. That's what I think the books of 'The Witcher' did really well, and it's what attracted me to them, in the first place.