I feel like I've come out of this grown up, maybe because I live through the character vicariously and she grows up so much during the course of this story.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
I've grown up with girls that are like Precious. I've grown up with people that are like everyone that I read about in that book. And so years later, when I was given the role, I just felt a huge responsibility to show the reality of that situation and to show that we're not making it up.
You live vicariously through your characters.
Sometimes I can't get out of the character because the story is very intense.
I leave the story room to grow into what the movie is driving me to do.
I enjoy heroines who grow and come into their own during the course of a story.
She's lonely and wounded and very vulnerable and it really is a story about people at the heart of it all.
I still like the relationship part of any story. You don't want your character to figure everything out and then at the end of the day, go home and eat soup from a can by herself.
If I prepare myself for a character, for a role, I always try to understand her.
I'm hopefully making the reader feel a lot about the characters and then about their own life.
It's possible that I've matured as a writer, and I hope I've matured emotionally, but I always find myself revisiting these adolescent scenes.
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