A Quote by David Harbour

I tend to find that movies have become so slick that I have trouble identifying with the characters.

David Harbour

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Become Characters Find Identifying Movies Slick Tend Trouble

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David Harbour
American - Actor
Born: April 10, 1975

There's this attitude that you have to love your characters, and I think that's a nice trick if you have trouble identifying with bad behavior but I don't think I have trouble with that.

Ashley Zukerman

I love these kind of movies as a kind of cinema-going geek myself. Those characters, you want to be like those characters when you go to the movies. You know, when you see a movie with a guy who's really cool and the killing's slick and easy. I don't know. There's something intoxicating about it.

Pierce Brosnan

Underground, raw movies that come out of nowhere and change everything - they aren't slick-looking. But I have nothing against slick-looking as long as the scripts are funny.

John Waters

Sometimes, the smaller roles in movies can be the most interesting. If you only take the stance that you'll only play central characters in movies, you'll find yourself not being able to indulge in that morally grey terrain that makes support characters so rich and interesting.

Joel Edgerton

We live in a box of space and time. Movies are windows in its walls. They allow us to enter other minds, not simply in the sense of identifying with the characters, although that is an important part of it, but by seeing the world as another person sees it.

Roger Ebert

'Masaan' was a small role, but people connected with it. I loved playing a man who does not have many complexities in life. I was inspired by my father for this role. You find such characters in novel or in stories. You don't find such parts in movies where characters are either good, bad, or grey.

Pankaj Tripathi

I'm a character-driven director, and I tend to fall in love with the characters in my movies and TV shows.

Doug Liman

It's a convention, but in horror movies the female characters usually tend to believe easier in a supernatural event.

Fede Alvarez

There are movies whose feel-good sentiments and slick craft annoy me so deeply that I know they will become box-office successes or top prizewinners. I call this internal mechanism my Built-In Hit Detector.

Richard Corliss

The movies and TV shows I like to watch tend to put their characters in situations where they have to dig deeper.

Kristin Bauer van Straten

The earliest movies that I loved were French movies and Italian movies. I grew up watching those kind of movies and often find the truest looks at human nature - you can find them in another countrys movies.

Lucy Fisher

I tend to write about towns because that's what I remember best. You can put a boundary on the number of characters you insert into a small town. I tend to create a lot of characters, so this is a sort of restraint on the character building I do for a novel.