Big Quote by David Nutter

You try to make characters you care about, and I think realism helps. Even though this is a high concept, the characters have got…

— Ricky Gervais

“take details from “real life” into fiction and make them believable requires careful work: creating characters the reader can believe would do the unbelievable…

— Dorothy Allison

No matter what world you're creating, whether it be a real world or a fantasy world, you still have to make the characters relatable…

— David Nutter

You really have to soak up the culture of the people to get it right. If you're making a fiction film, it's entertainment, but…

— Robert Duvall

I just have to focus on staying truthful to my characters and depict their reality as authentically as I can.

— Arjun Mathur

The movies I make tend not to be quite reality but the characters are inspired by real people and they're always very personal.

— Wes Anderson

I don't think about the stories so much, as the characters themselves. They live on, and they are almost as real as I am.

— Paul Auster

I have too much respect for the characters I play to make them anything but as real as they can possibly be. I have…

— Kyra Sedgwick

What do you do in a novel? You take recognizable characters from your own life, and you fantasize about what they're really like.

— Joe Klein

You do a drama, and you are limited by the rules of reality, and in science fiction, you create your own reality. Some people…

— David Twohy

It's your job to come up with compelling characters who speak to an individual authenticity. If I'm not interested in the characters, I can't…

— Nic Pizzolatto

When I write, I forget that it's not real. I'm living the story, and I think people can read that sincerity about the characters.…

— Stephenie Meyer