Assuming Quote by Eden Robinson

In some ways, every character we write, especially the protagonist, is some version of ourselves, as a writer/director, even if they aren't the same…

— Lulu Wang

I've shied away from playing Asian characters. if you look back, I'm playing characters that have no relevance to my ethnicity.

— Jessica Henwick

I don't think of the characters as nationalities. I do not live in India. Playing people from different backgrounds, including Indians, comes easily to…

— Sarita Choudhury

Something I love about 'Teen Wolf' is that my character is written in as just a normal girl. She could have been any ethnicity;…

— Arden Cho

I sense a kind of fear of writing black or Asian characters from non-ethnic writers, who perhaps feel that they don't know the culture…

— Sanjeev Bhaskar

The parent characters that I portray are Indian because I grew up in an Indian household. Having said that, I feel like people of…

— Lilly Singh

I am Indian-American, but I often play ethnically ambiguous roles.

— Tiya Sircar

Of course, the way writers think about those things is almost certain to be affected by their own cultural background, and it would be…

— Stanley Schmidt

People are probably correct when they see me as the so-called Everyman. I'm attracted primarily to contemporary characters. I understand them and their frustrations.

— Jack Lemmon

I've been asked since my undergrad if I want my characters to be limited by ethnicity. So far, it hasn't helped me back.

— Lily Gladstone

I was always asked to play roles where I was the contrasting or multicultural character. Sometimes that worked for me - often it didn't.

— Katy Jurado

It's really a misconception to identify the writer with the main character, given that the author creates all the characters in the book. In…

— Rachel Kushner