Characters Quote by Gerald Scarfe

I wish I could say I had any idea what I was doing when I designed characters. I just take things I like and…

— Mike Mignola

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

I don't want to be a writer where all the characters sound the same. There's a facility in that kind of writing.

— Richard LaGravenese

Once you're involved in the work, it's really just you and the characters and the words.

— Edwidge Danticat

My work is basically images set to my particular voice. It's the way the images rhyme and the rhythm. It's a way of economical…

— Frances Stark

Usually when you start the characters, the first thing is the script. Your design work is about telling the story. It's later that casting…

— Alexandra Byrne

I find it an easy way into writing pieces is to think what the character's voice is like, and start from there.

— Armando Iannucci

To create characters, one must build background. And one of the tools we use is improvisation

— Harvey Keitel

I begin by assembling notes on characters. Large swaths of the plot become clear to me as I do this.

— James Ellroy

I have always been attracted to good scripts and try hard to make characters as believable as possible. That means trying to figure out…

— Powers Boothe

I make very involved drawings, even little structures, and try using design to figure out the rhythm of a plot. If there are several…

— Louise Erdrich

My stories are pretty simplistic, but the characters are always complex and always right, and that comes from the script and my research and…

— Tony Scott