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Lydia Millet Quotes

I don't tend to picture my characters as actors and actresses.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: novelist
Nationality: american
Birth: December 5, 1968

Topics

Picture Characters Tend

I need to react to a script, to feel strongly about it in some way. And I need it to be a complex character for sure. And also, I think a lot about what kind of audience there is for the film, what they're looking for and ways to connect with them in the playing of a character.

Character Looking Think Feel Kind

Well, I think probably the main reason people overeat is stress.

Stress People Think Reason Well

I started surfing when I was working on 'The Hunger Games,' out on the north shore of Oahu, so about four years ago. I used to skateboard as a kid, kind of religiously, until I broke my leg riding in a pool when I was about 14 and I couldn't play football that fall.

Football Fall Pool Play Kind Games

Good writing is deceptive in that it hides its own artifice - it makes it seem easy.

Good Writing Easy Own Seem Artifice

I have a British passport, but the rest of my family have Indian passports, and I am Indian.

Family I Am Rest Passport British

Consumers are statistics. Customers are people.

People Statistics Customers Consumers

Grow old with me! The best is yet to be.

Robert Browning

Best Me Grow Old

The writing career is not a romantic one. The writer's life may be colorful, but his work itself is rather drab.

Mary Roberts Rinehart

Life Work Romantic Writing Career

For me, being able to be vulnerable is difficult, but it's just something that I feel comfortable doing. I need to fully understand why, the thought-process behind the character and I have to believe it. That comes from a lot of preparation.

Character Preparation Me Believe Why

I prefer movies because the money is better and certainly because you really know where you stand when you are making movies, and I have made a lot of them: 50-something - I don't know.

Money Stand Better You Know Movies

I really hate the creature film convention that says you have to wait until the end to see the monster. One hour and all you've seen is just the tip of the creature's tail.

Hate Wait End You See Monster

My wife bought an extra life insurance policy on me.

Life Wife Me Insurance Policy Extra

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