Although this is a fictitious story the history is real. You don’t want to re-write history but you certainly want to portray events and characters as realistically as you can.

Charaktere sind vielleicht schon bezeichnet und beschrieben worden, seit es Lebewesen gibt, die sprechen können. Dichter haben das sehr differenziert getan; man denke an Proust, Tolstoi oder Dostojewski. Diese Autoren haben die innere Dynamik eines...

Life is better than any movie or TV show. In real life there is no plot and there are billions of characters.

It is fun to explore these kick-butt characters.

I was kind of a cross between Kristy and Mary Anne among ‘The Baby-Sitters Club’ characters. I was shy, but I was also kind of a tomboy, and I was really good at sticking my...

I don’t want to be a writer where all the characters sound the same. There’s a facility in that kind of writing.

You can never know enough about your characters

Like the ‘good’ characters in literature, the sane don’t have any memorable lines.

I don’t discuss my own beliefs in public, but I will say the beliefs I’ve given my characters do not necessarily represent what I myself believe.

I’ve done literally 100, 150 different characters.

‘Star Trek’ was always a little bit closed emotionally. I never connected to the characters.

If you know anything about James Whitcomb Riley, you know that Little Orphan Annie is one of the most fantastic characters who ever lived in America before Charlie Chaplin.

I am like my characters – sometimes even the female ones.

I turned to the window. A single raindrop fell against it, and seeing my reflection in the glass, I suddenly knew why Finn’s eyes were familiar.They were exactly like mine.

The same characters that keep reappearing, bigger than life, find their own integrity in doing what they do the way they do it, even if it causes their own deaths.

When my characters are questioning things, it’s not me leading up to an answer; it’s me asking those same questions and letting the characters’ lives unfold and seeing where it takes them.

I get very involved in my characters. Sometimes I have a very hard time separating my characters from my life.

I love creating characters and becoming someone else entirely.

When I write fiction, I never try to deliver a message; I just want to tell a story. But I admit that I want the story to be memorable and the characters to touch the...

In a weird way, I live vicariously through the characters I play as an actor.

Motionless we traverse countries we fancy we see, and your thought, blending with the fiction, playing with the details, follows the outline of the adventures. It mingles with the characters, and it seems as if...

For me, screenwriting is all about setting characters in motion and as a writer just chasing them. They should tell you what they’ll do in any scene you put them in.

Don’t bother to ring a bell in the ear that doesn’t listen. Move to another ear, and if he doesn’t listen to your bell, sit back and listen to his nemesis.

I like having a plot; I like characters with a reason to get up in the morning.

I was afraid of anyone in a costume. A trip to see Santa might as well have been a trip to sit on Hitler’s lap for all the trauma it would cause me. Once, when...

The more gifted and talkative one’s characters are, the greater the chances of their resembling the author in tone or tint of mind.

None of the characters I’ve played are really like me. That would be boring. That wouldn’t be acting.

Most people carry their demons around with them, buried down deep inside. Writers wrestle their demons to the surface, fling them onto the page, then call them characters.

I look at actors like Johnny Depp, Sean Penn, and Benicio Del Toro, and they play all these different characters. I’m hoping that, in my lifetime, I’ll be able to look back and say, ‘You...

The physical journey in my films is indicative of the internal journey that my characters take.

I love the tradition of Dickens, where even the most minor walk-on characters are twitching and particular and alive.

This isn’t the road home. This is a road littered with questions that will inevitably lead to an answer.

‘Lord of the Rings’ was a set of books in which the world had been conceived before the characters were placed within that context.

The flimsy little protestations that mark the front gate of every novel, the solemn statements that any resemblance to real persons living or dead is entirely coincidental, are fraudulent every time. A writer has no...

We have all been fooled into believing in people who are entirely imaginary–made-up prisoners in a hypothetical panopticon. But the point isn’t whether or not you believe in imaginary people; it’s whether or not you...

A story is built on characters and reasons.

If a person finds the negative people in his network, then he needs to mind or mend his own nature than others for his basic grounding decides only the level of acidic or toxic surrounding.

But — my dear, my heart is BROKEN! I have seen the perfect Peter Wimsey. Height, voice, charm, smile, manner, outline of features, everything — and he is — THE CHAPLAIN OF BALLIOL!! What is...

I’m much nicer then all my characters, let’s just put it that way.

I have closed my study door on the world and shut myself away with people of my imagination. For nearly sixty years I have eavesdropped with impunity on the lives of people who do not...

If we live long enough, we become caricatures of ourselves.

It feels like I’m starting to come into my own in terms of where I want to go artistically, toward more complicated, interesting characters.

…you mean you don’t fit characters into a plot? excatly…

If I’d lived like my characters, I would have been dead before I’d made 16 films.

I didn’t ‘decide’ to write YA, per se. But every time I thought of a story, it featured characters 15, 16, 17.

I think I relate to all the characters in one way or another. I’m a chameleon like that.

I am one of the new characters in the brand new series of ‘Postman Pat.’ It has been a joy to do.

European films were what it was about for me – the sensations I needed, the depth, the storytelling, the characters, the directors, and the freedom that you can’t really find in American films.

I’ve been very lucky enough to do all kinds of movies. All the movies that I’ve done have been very different, and all the characters I’ve done have been very different. I feel very lucky...

I don’t know where people got the idea that characters in books are supposed to be likable. Books are not in the business of creating merely likeable characters with whom you can have some simple...