Able Quote by Graeme Murphy

I wanted to give readers the feeling of knowing the characters, a mental image.

— Michael Chabon

It was our goal to dig into the characters and really try to find out why they think the things they think and why…

— Marshall Curry

You want to tell a great story. You want these characters to become part of people's lives. And then, hopefully, that generates discussion.

— Todd Lieberman

It's the emotional trigger points that are important to me because I know if I could believe in the characters and try and imagine…

— Graeme Murphy

If you connect emotionally with the plight of those characters, ou feel what they feel and you walk away with a sense of understanding…

— Khaled Hosseini

I have a lot of compassion for human beings in life experiences, so I allow myself to feel what these characters are feeling and…

— Kimberly Elise

It can sometimes make people fold into themselves and kind of run away, but I think in this case these characters are being forced…

— Emily Deschanel

The characters have their own lives and their own logic, and you have to act accordingly.

— Isaac Bashevis Singer

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

If you have great characters, then your reader becomes emotionally invested in those people.

— Lawrence Wright

You're living with these characters for years and years, you need to have a lock on who they are as people, what they like,…

— Aldis Hodge

It's very important to keep the emotions grounded, to keep the characters in some real place.

— Marc Webb