Character Quote by Anna Boden

You try to get to know your character as best as you can before you start filming - whats written and not written.

— Paul Dano

You try to get to know your character as best as you can before you start filming - what's written and not written.

— Paul Dano

When I do a film, it is about how I become a character.

— Sai Pallavi

As a filmmaker, you are going to manipulate the character as you need to make the scenes work.

— Peter Jackson

Usually with film writing I start with characters, and set about writing their story.

— Billy Bob Thornton

The main thing that I learned from editing is that most people, when they're making a film, they start too early into the story.…

— Steven Zaillian

We have a writing process that's very much you try to create the character in a complicated way and then you let the story…

— Aaron Ehasz

You wanna do a lot of backstory for your character - as an actor, you wanna research that. But on the show, it's fun…

— Alison Brie

Every time when I start preparing my character for a movie, I always try to make up and create my own background story for…

— Sibel Kekilli

There are a lot of techniques for developing a character.

— David Walton

You spend so much time developing a character when you do a film; so much of your work is done before you get set…

— Justin Timberlake

The cool thing about doing films and being different characters is that it's new everyday and new every project. So, you're always learning something…

— Julianne Hough