engaging personalities Quotes

The challenge was the opportunity. When I read the first draft of Steve Kloves' fabulous adaptation - I hadn't read [Michael] Chabon's book at that time - what I was immediately captivated by was this group of characters that were at once so engaging and so messed up.

The test of interesting people is that subject matter doesn't matter.

I've never found an interesting person with a foul mouth.

Nice characters are boring! I like writing upbeat characters - that's my natural tendency.

I really like clever men who challenge you.

...handsome people are always interesting to watch. But a handsome person in crisis is riveting.

There are amusing people who do not interest, and interesting people who do not amuse

I began to understand that there were certain talkers - certain girls - whom people liked to listen to, not because of what they, the girls, had to say, but because of the delight they took in saying it. A delight in themselves, a shine on their faces, a conviction that whatever they were telling about was remarkable and that they themselves could not help but give pleasure. There might be other people - people like me - who didn't concede this, but that was their loss. And people like me would never be the audience these girls were after, anyway.