Saturday, March 22, 2008

Jackie Gleason on creating a character



[Photograph of New York City subway rider by Walker Evans.]

He once told me that the creation of a character "starts with looking at all the people on the subway, figuring out how they might have got that way."

Audrey Meadows, Love, Alice: My Life as a Honeymooner (NY: Crown, 1994)

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Lee said...

Not a bad method, eh?