All kinds Quote by Callie Khouri

Of course I know my characters are unlikable sometimes or have prejudices. It's not as if I'm thinking they're so endearing all the time.…

— Curtis Sittenfeld

With any character, I try to focus more on who the character is and how they got to be who they are.

— Rachelle Lefevre

I suppose that the sympathetic/unsympathetic debate about characters sometimes feels to me like a misstatement of purpose. I always think of truly complex characters…

— Rick Moody

All characters come from people I know, but after the initial inspiration, I tend to modify the characters so they fit with the story.

— Nicholas Sparks

I do tend to have characters that I guess are in some way loners or dealing with obstacles that they have to confront that…

— Craig Gillespie

I never base a character on someone I know. You can get ideas from real life, but every character you write is some aspect…

— S. E. Hinton

I think that I've always been attracted to characters who are positive and come from a very innocent place. I think there's a lot…

— Amy Adams

I enjoy taking on complex, difficult characters and have always striven to capture the truth of those people, whether or not it's popular.

— Anna Gunn

I think the great thing about characters is the ways that they can be surprising. I mean, sometimes you think you've got a lock…

— Joel Edgerton

I think all our characters are an amalgam of people we know in our world and ourselves.

— Zoe Lister-Jones

I just love real characters; they're not pretentious, and every emotion is on the surface, they're regular working people. Their likes, their dislikes, their…

— David O. Russell

I try to make my characters kind of ordinary, somebody that anybody could be. Because we've all had loves, perhaps love and loss, people…

— Maeve Binchy