Katie Holmes Quotes

Interactive storytelling emphasizes a personal connection with the characters. It is a powerful tool that can draw you so deeply into the world of a story that you lose sight of it as a story. You think you are there - at least, if it is done right.

I began to ask two questions while I was reading a book that excited me: not only what was going to happen next, but how is this done? How is it that these words on the page make me feel the way I'm feeling? This is the line of inquiry that I think happens in a child's mind, without him even knowing he has aspirations as a writer.

If a movie is really working, you forget for two hours your Social Security number and where your car is parked. You are having a vicarious experience. You are identifying, in one way or another, with the people on the screen.

In terms of the characters I think are really fun to play, a lot of times it's someone in my head saying 'I know that woman.'

My wife read Narc as well and was really into it.

A reader should encounter themselves in a novel, I think.

When we read a book, we have a blurry image that's kind of physical but blurry. But we have an emotional image also. We have an emotional connection to the character.

As a viewer, I love watching movies. There has to be an emotional connection.

The movies that are really big, at least in my experience, oftentimes don't have characters that I feel as personally connected to.

I really felt good after working in a film like 'Piku,' as many people could relate to my character. I got letters from my fans telling me how my character resembles to their grandparents.

I want to see movies where I can relate to the guy.

I had a strong visceral reaction to the 'Moonlight' script, partly because I felt I knew all of these characters.

People often talk about the characters in books as if they were considering whom to invite to a dinner party. 'Oh, I just hated her - she was so mean.' 'He's a bully; I didn't like how he treated his mother.'

Any actor would love to just pick up a script and be like, 'I can connect to this person, and I can see myself playing him.'

I think there is a difference between connecting with a character and supporting and believing their policies.

It is very touching that you are able to create some kind of impact through a character.

I don't know where people got the idea that characters in books are supposed to be likable. Books are not in the business of creating merely likeable characters with whom you can have some simple identification with. Books are in the business of creating great stories that make you're brain go ahhbdgbdmerhbergurhbudgerbudbaaarr.

A book is a collaboration between the one who reads and what is read and, at its best, that coming together is a love story like any other.

The reason I never want a book to end is that I start to feel like the characters are my friends. I'll miss them when they're gone.

I had a love affair with books, with characters and their words. Books kept me company. When the voices of the book faded, as with the last long chord of a record, the back cover crinkling closed, I could swear I heard a door click shut.

I had tears coming out of my eyes. And it was the characters that got me there.

In my acting, I have to identify with something in the character. The big tough boy on the side of right - that's me. Simple themes. Same me from the nuances. All I do is sell sincerity and I've been selling the hell out of that ever since I started.

If you cared enough about your characters, what happened to them was interesting... it's important to care about them, about who they are and what they do...I don't really care whose side they are on, and they can be monstrous on the outside or, worse, on the inside, but you still have to want to spend time with them.

Put simply the novel stands between us and the hardening concept of statistical man. There is no other medium in which we can live for so long and so intimately with a character. That is the service a novel renders.

Once you get a character, you lock it in your heart - it's there.