Characters Quotes

After a while, the characters I'm writing begin to feel real to me. That's when I know I'm heading in the right direction.

A lot of my characters in all of my books have a self-destructive urge. They'll do precisely the thing that they know is wrong, take a perverse delight in doing the wrong thing.

The fact is, it was a big show. We were a part of that show. Everybody watches for different reasons. There were some people who were tuning in that day to see what was going on with other characters.

I'm in the business to push it. I'm not likely to be attracted to characters I've already done.

Everything is so funny in the movie. The funniest thing about the movie is the transformations they were able to make with the characters.

With indies, all they have is their script and it's very important to them. The characters are better drawn, the stories more precise and the experience greater than with studio films where sometimes they fill in the script as they're shooting.

Nobody is surprised that women writers accurately represent male characters over and over again, no doubt because everybody knows that women understand men much better than vice-versa.

To me, there are things you're good at and things you're not so good at. For some reason, I'm good at darker characters. It has to do with how you look.

I enjoy doing everything, comedy and drama. I just look for the characters really and what they offer.

There is a common theme, though, in the stories I have told, which are usually associations of characters or families that are formed outside of a family circle.

But I also wanted to give them an intelligent emotional journey, without having to suspend reality - to be able to look at those characters and see reasons for the relationships and why what happens happens.

I think I'm drawn to characters with complexity or who are under duress in some way and have some conflict going on.

I think I'm a part of all the characters I play, definitely at different times in my life. In real life, I'm kind of a tomboy. I like to read a lot I like watching T.V. I don't think I'm as interesting as my characters, but I like doing what I do.

Action, reaction, motivation, emotion, all have to come from the characters. Writing a love scene requires the same elements from the writer as any other.

Real-life people are often the hardest to play, people that you recreate who have actually lived, because you have to live up to people's knowledge of those characters.

I think the thing is with a movie that has this much science fiction in it; you need characters who are more science fact, if you know what I mean, than they are human.

There is a comfort zone of knowing where things are going and having characters in place, but the action gets more and more dramatic and is very challenging to describe.

I think that you can sort of have your own personal journey and you know, you can just kind of apply that to whatever characters you're playing.

Take the hardcore gamers. The characters are way more real in the world of hardcore gamers who have played the game for hundreds of hours. They have the movie in their heads, they've built it on their own. These guys are always very disappointed in the movies.

Actually the copies of characters is something I don't particularly like to talk about in articles but just for your information, most characters there's only one.

No matter who the characters are, you can strip them down and find small universal truths.

My characters are driven by a passionate desire for justice. They are rebellious and incorruptible.

The great mystery is why robots come off so well in science-fiction films when the human characters are often so astoundingly wooden.

So much of movie acting is in the lighting. And in loving your characters. I try to know them, and with that intimacy comes love. And now, I love Voldemort.

After 'Prom Night' I did two movies where I was playing a prostitute. I gravitate towards characters that have some sort of inner turmoil or some sort of character arc. That's the great thing about acting, so many different things and being really diverse in your choices.

I don't like to play characters that are too perfect.

I actually then went on to direct an after-school special where one of the characters was deaf. They hired me without even knowing I had any connection to the community.

I think having my life be as private and quiet as possible is a way in which then I can go and play characters.

We started getting the script to different people and we were in the business of trying to fund it so we could get it off and running, and all the characters and sets designed and everything.

My favorite characters are the ones that are the most successful movies.