Gale Anne Hurd Quotes

I sort of fall in love with every character I do; you have to understand how they became what they've become, whether they're the ugly kind or the very beautiful kinds of characters.

I think what I'm trying to do is create moments of recognition. To try to detonate some kind of feeling or understanding of lived experience.

I think my job is hopefully to connect with people emotionally and to feel less alone or understand things in a certain way.

I think if a character appeals to you, there are certain parts of yourself will come to the fore and other parts that will play down.

As the writer, you're always a presence in the song. If you get close to what human beings are like, you're writing about common experience. We all do much the same things, so if you nail somebody, then you've also nailed yourself.

When you are playing someone who is dealing with issues on a really personal level, if you don't bring your own issues into the equation, it's not going to feel really personal to the people watching it.

You can't understand a character intellectually, you have to become one with its emotional core.

Every single character I've ever played has a little bit of me in them just because every single human in the world has a little bit of everything in them.

I think people will discover themselves in 'Ankahee.'

I need my 'art work' or 'entertainment work' or whatever to have empathy for or connection to the way I experience the world as a person.

Emotional information is very, very rich in influence. You're giving somebody something to connect with, to see themselves in.

I find often in Hollywood there are many people who play themselves really beautifully. And certain parts are not that dissimilar from who you are as a person. And there are other parts where you would like to think that you have nothing in common with those characters, but you probably do have more than you think.

It doesn't make you a monster to want, she said, her voice very gentle. It's what you do with it that matters.

I am her friend, and her tongue is in my mouth. I can speak her sentiments for her, though Ethel Waters can do very well indeed in speaking for herself.

And whenever you feel that essence in another, you also feel it in yourself.

I think readers are just looking for things that maybe they recognize or can relate to in the books.

I think people enjoy "The Lobster" because people respond to original things, but I think they only respond to original things if they connect to some truths within us.

But what I thought, and what I still think, and always will, is that she saw me. Nobody else has ever seen me — me, Jenny Gluckstein — like that. Not my parents, not Julian, not even Meena. Love is one thing — recognition is something else.

I think it would be very difficult to play somebody if they didn't think they had any virtues or redeeming characteristics.

I think human beings probably resonate with audiences more than bunnies, but who knows?

But work that's got real substance does make people feel, "There's someone else out there who relates to my experience, or who just helped me understand my own experience a little bit better." And I think that's still got enormous value.

I think there's a bit of me in every character. Basically it just depends on what happens with the character.

I'm often moved by the circumstances around some of my characters, but I don't think I've actually cried watching myself.

Till the first friend dies, we think our ecstasy impersonal, but then discover that he was the cup from which we drank it, itself as yet unknown.

It is not half so important to know as to feel.