Better person Quote by Craig Gillespie

I think a lot of people relate to some of my characters' inner struggles.

— Edward Norton

I love to start characters in a place where you think you know them. We can make all kinds of assumptions about them and…

— Callie Khouri

I have always connected to stories with characters that don't fit in and have a constant internal battle between their better nature and the…

— Matt Czuchry

A lot of my characters are people who are, in essence, lying to themselves. They present one thing, when in reality they're another thing.…

— Kyle Mooney

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

— Alexia Fast

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

I think you always need to be able to relate to your characters, but that doesn't necessarily mean...you have to understand why they do…

— Natalie Portman

You relate to a character and you find that character within yourself. It's all parts of me. I don't leave characters behind. I just…

— Sissy Spacek

I think I've been good at getting into lonely and troubled characters because, not to brag, but I'm the complete opposite in real life.

— Kodi Smit-McPhee

I have always written about characters who fall somewhere in the spectrum between solitary and totally alienated.

— Nicole Krauss

The idea of being a character who is kind of isolated, I can relate to that.

— Robin Williams

I tend to come up with people more than situations - most of my books start with a character.

— Jane Haddam