Character Quote by Gail Godwin

Characters I create are just mixtures of the people I know.

— Taika Waititi

I create each character as an individual, coming from a certain place, sounding a certain way, having been introduced to things a certain way.

— Martin Landau

As you become acquainted with a character you are creating, you add parts of yourself that are pertinent to that character.

— Chuck Jones

My characters are based on people I know, but not in a direct way.

— MacKenzie Scott

I don't ever really know where I get my characters from.

— Elizabeth Strout

I don't think of my characters as people I create, I think of them more as people I have met and whom I'm exploring…

— Lisa Unger

Every character I do is based on someone I know.

— Tracey Ullman

There are always parts of me that come out in the characters that I play - it's the only thing I have to work…

— Aubrey Plaza

I think, when I write, one of the things that I'm really attempting to do is I'm attempting to humanize my characters.

— Jesmyn Ward

Sometimes minor characters are based on people I know, on friends of mine. But I'm not writing a thinly veiled version of my own…

— Cassandra Clare

I have no idea who the characters are, later, their personalities take over anything I might want to do. I end up writing not…

— Akira Kurosawa

Creating characters is like throwing together ingredients for a recipe. I take characteristics I like and dislike in real people I know, or know…

— Cassandra Clare