Character Quote by Gretchen Mol

With television, sometimes the writing is continuous and happening at every moment, and you'll get new pages at the last moment. We have to…

— Michael Stuhlbarg

Without sounding defensive, I would say that sometimes TV critics assume that after a few episodes the writers 'finally understand the characters,' and as…

— Jesse Armstrong

You always take a little bit back with you at the end of the day. I always put a little bit of myself into…

— Aaron Stanford

The person you are (in total, at that moment in time) is what creates the story you're writing. It's infused in every piece of…

— Victor LaValle

Sometimes television can just jump from one bit of plot to the next, and the words fill in the in-between.

— Chiwetel Ejiofor

The voice is always the starting place for me with a character.

— Rebecca Hall

It's through the voice that I tend to figure out the character (and through dialogue that I come to understand other characters).

— Teddy Wayne

The established characters are easy to recall. I don't know why, but they come back to me instantly when I need them. It's the…

— Jim Cummings

Sometimes I'll get a premise, you know, for a book. In fact, I get those quite often. And I don't commit to it until…

— Kimberly Willis Holt

If you're doing television, you get to be a character for a long time, and the cast around you becomes like family. You get…

— Sammi Hanratty

It explains why people come home from work or school and immediately switch on the television. They are not interested in the program much…

— Harold S. Kushner

I can picture the character in my head, and the voice just comes out.

— Jim Cummings