Casts Quote by David McCullough

As the story unfolded, the cast of characters changed to match it.

— Warren Spector

All those [events in history] were such dramas as we see now, only with different actors.

— Marcus Aurelius

Characters do change over time; there are surprises, role reversals, and things like that.

— Paul Dini

I felt they had really moved the characters in a direction that was very interesting. The family had really felt the impact of what…

— JoBeth Williams

It's very important that all the supporting characters feel like they've existed in the world, that they've had a history, and they'll go on…

— Andrew Haigh

The characters are the result of two things-first, we elaborate them into fairly well-defined people through their dialogue, then they happen all over again,…

— Joel Coen

The actors I looked up to when I was a teenager, they all just disappeared into different characters.

— Michael Fassbender

Historical fiction is not history. You're blending real events and actual historical personages with characters of your own creation.

— George R. R. Martin

History is basically really looking back and finding out what happened to an individual, a community, a family, a group in a certain event.…

— Tamlyn Tomita

There's so much of, it could have been a very critical examination of what happened, and really the emotional lives of the people involved…

— Jeremy Northam

History portrays everything as if it could not have come otherwise. History is on the side of what happened.

— Elias Canetti

For every character, I think about who they are, their story, what they are, and who they were before their game started. What was…

— Tim Schafer