Ronald Blythe Quotes

In a way, we tried to make 'The Salvation' a contemporary film with contemporary emotions. At the same time, in the script, you get a feel that all the small talk is not a part of our universe. It's more precise talk.

I think 'The Walking Dead' is very interestingly paced. It's slow, almost like an old Western. It's also very stylised - visually, I think it's very pretty. It's more of a psychological drama than anything else.

The function of the novel is the exploration of the human condition. Really, that's what it's all about.

You can channel a lot within a comic framework, and I think 'The Guard' had a lot going on outside of the comedy, which is satisfying.

All Shondaland shows have a level of intelligence, a level of humor, a level of pathos and human connection.

What I love about 'The Good Wife' is that it's not straightforward.

'Ida' doesn't set out to explain history. That's not what it's about. The story is focused on very concrete and complex characters who are full of humanity with all its paradoxes. They're not pawns used to illustrate some version of history or an ideology.

Good TV is not about people being happy; it's drama.

The films that have influenced me most are: 'The Hustler', 'Badlands', 'Hud', 'Tender Mercies', 'Cool Hand Luke', 'A Perfect World', and 'Laurence of Arabia'. I also really like 'Fletch'. I feel like all of these films reached an honest place in regard to the human condition while also stringing together really entertaining stories.

Contemporary audiences are interested in watching characters navigate ethical challenges and moral dilemmas.

A lot of novels use crime as a stepping stone to talk about greater issues. So I just think of myself as a writer.

As an actor, I'm always interested in my characters getting into trouble, because conflict is, you know, the great determiner of someone's mettle.

I like the movies that embrace the complexity of the human condition.

'Star Wars' is very black and white, and honestly, I like it that way. But fantastical settings like that work best when the characters within them feel real. Real people have conflicts and make mistakes and get it wrong sometimes.

I love the novelist's freedom of going into different people's subjectivity and being able to work with them as characters.

Incarcerated individuals want what most people want in a novel: good, honest writing and a story well told.

In 'Sanju,' there are too many colours. Some other filmmaker could have taken a dark side to that story.

It's just not interesting to play happy people.

'The Slap' is not like anything else. It's an incredibly well-written novel that has been turned into a great and intriguing series that reveals both less and more about each character than you learn in the book. It's a novel that has been given a second chance to live.

I thought as an actress I would be able to have broader emotional experiences, but then I quickly figured out that I wanted to think about tragic dramas, not act in them.

I have been through and seen so many dramas and traumas and been in so many situations that I can probably interpret a few different characters.

I don't think I have a very novelistic brain. I like to read, but I don't know if I could ever write a novel.

I've been inspired for a long time by Nicole Holofcener. I admire her greatly as an auteur, examining the human condition in a funny, growing, spirited, honestly dark and human way.

I don't design stories to fit some political ideology. I design stories about characters who I love and care about, while trying to make sense of an increasingly mad and toxic and insane world.

I tried writing a novel, but plays were the thing that kept feeding me, asking me to come back, sit down and be with them.