Affair Quote by Doug Liman

More of 'The Bourne Identity's script was taken from the events of the Iran Contra, which my father investigated for the Senate, than what…

— Doug Liman

'North by Northwest' was a big influence for 'The Bourne Identity.'

— Doug Liman

No one of the characters in my novels has originated, so far as I know, in real life. If anything, the contrary was the…

— Elizabeth Bowen

My characters are fictional. I get ideas from real people, sometimes, but my characters always exist only in my head.

— S. E. Hinton

We referenced fictional characters as if they were people to learn from. As if real-life people were too nebulous, too private and unreal for…

— Miguel Syjuco

I discovered that there was no difference between playing a real-life character and a fictional one.

— Parvathy

I create fictional narratives, but it's based on literal people.

— Danai Gurira

Sometimes I don't know whether I'm real or whether I'm a character in one of my novels.

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

My characters seem real because they are drawn from the realities of my life. I didn't have to research their pain; I just tapped…

— Charles de Lint

If there's a role you're playing and there's a great deal of material to explore because the person was real then it's a completely…

— Emma Thompson

In every film, whether it's a fictional character or not, you create an idea of the character and for me I always do a…

— Joaquin Phoenix

I like to take fictitious characters and circumstances and wedge them into a real world.

— Kurt Sutter