Character Quote by Greta Gerwig

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

Listen to the way people talk. If your characters sound real the rest is easy.

— David Eddings

When you have a set of characters, you have to fall in love with them and care about them as each individual character.

— Tina Fey

Don't let your characters tell you what to do. They can be pushy. Some writers say that they create characters and then just sort…

— Chelsea Cain

Just don't pretend you know more about your characters than they do, because you don't. Stay open to them. It's teatime and all the…

— Anne Lamott

If I'm honest about the people that I love, then I need my characters to live through the same things that the people I…

— Jesmyn Ward

There are a million little things, but one of the best ways to get to know characters is to just put them in situations…

— Greta Gerwig

Once you have your character sitting right there in your head, all you really need to do is wind them up, put them down,…

— Terry Pratchett

I don't get into these long-winded heavy discussions about character - do we do this or that or what. At the end of the…

— Robert De Niro

I get very involved in my characters. Sometimes I have a very hard time separating my characters from my life.

— Alexia Fast

I spend a lot of time with my characters.

— R. Lee Ermey

You play the honesty of the characters and show a side of them that people can relate to and want to get to know.

— Brian Tyree Henry