Dave McCary Quotes

In writing literary fiction, you are trying to help yourself. And readers are going to literary fiction not just to be entertained, but because they feel something else will happen; that the experience will take them beyond themselves and show them something they haven't seen before.

I just wrapped 'Eclipse' yesterday and the last scene we shot is probably my favorite thus far. I finally got to tell my story, in a very gentle yet elaborate way.

Art, well good art at least, takes you to a place you go during the experience of it, and then after you experience it you are different.

She is also brought to a point of zero in the beginning of the story, and I think you can say that about a lot of my films in that they are often about people who are brought to the point of zero in the beginning of the film.

I began observing, making paintings of my surroundings, taking a vow of silence, listening, composing music, writing, and making time for formal education. Then I started telling stories.

There's no question that you can explore aspects of yourself through roles that you play, and you get a chance to investigate yourself; that's healthy, and it's therapeutic in a way. But if you're indulging yourself, exploration at the cost of the story or the project, that's not good.

I find myself really feeling like it's possible that maybe the greater contribution I'm going to be able to make through this next phase of my life might be as a writer writing wonderful parts for women, or even writing wonderful parts for myself, you know?

I wanted to tell my story in a way I haven't done before, things I've been going through in my life.

It's how I express myself - through storytelling and characters. They often reveal very intimate, vulnerable sides of myself.

One of the things I like about acting is that, in a funny way, I come back to myself.

In America, the stories we tell ourselves and we tell each other in fiction have to do with individualism. Every person here is the center of his or her own story. And our job as people and as characters is to find our own motivations and desires, to overcome conflicts and obstacles toward defining ourselves so that we grow and change.

Acting is always therapeutic.

You want roles that challenge you and that scare you a little and where you can really discover something, even about yourself, that maybe you didn't understand.

'Sunshine' is really an experiment for me to see if I am a filmmaker beyond having my own stories to tell.

I kind of stumbled into acting, even though I've always been fascinated by people and kind of their motives, and it's been amazing to me, everything I read before about psychology, philosophy, just to put it into practice somehow.

Doing acting opened up other creative outlets; it made me feel freer as an artist.

Both my parents were actors. I was schooled to think that acting was an important social service, that it was something that human beings need.

I see bits and pieces of me in all the characters in my films.

The movies and TV shows I like to watch tend to put their characters in situations where they have to dig deeper.

I think that you can sort of have your own personal journey and you know, you can just kind of apply that to whatever characters you're playing.

It was kind of enlightening to become a playwright.

The art of transformation is a very important thing to me, and I always believe I can say something more truthful through characters that are further away from me.

My writing is a very authentic journey of discovery. I'm going out there to learn who I am. My readers, consequently, take the same journey as my protagonist.

A life being enacted onstage is a thing of utter fascination for me. And acting, it may begin out of vanity, but you hope that it's taken over by something else. I hope I've climbed over the vanity hurdle.

Writing gave me a life.