Character Quote by Etgar Keret

In order to avoid sentimentality and to be able to write the screenplay with the kind of humor and irony necessary to keep the…

— Hirokazu Koreeda

When you're making a film you're thinking about how to tell the story visually.

— Sofia Coppola

In film, you have to present everything on the screen so it's the opposite of what I usually do with storytelling. It forced me…

— Yiyun Li

I think almost always that what gets me going with a story is the atmosphere, the visual imagery, and then I people it with…

— Ann Beattie

You don't go around thinking about how characters in a movie, in the stories you make up, relate to people in general.

— Ethan Coen

The theoretical casting part of movies is the funnest part. You really can imagine so many different versions of a story based on who's…

— Cary Fukunaga

There are so many films now where you know the story is a supporting role to the visual effects.

— Ricky Gervais

There are all kinds of ways that people present their films, but that's kind of a good feeling, if you can make it seem…

— Gus Van Sant

I believe locations should try to be and evoke the characters in a movie.

— Brad Furman

When I do a film, it is about how I become a character.

— Sai Pallavi

When we approached the project, the very first thing we did was take each character and say, "Okay, where would this character be?" We…

— Jon Hurwitz

When you watch films, there are so many different types of characters you want to portray.

— Rhea Chakraborty