Complicated Quote by Irwin Shaw

I've felt like I had to fight for fully realized characters with complexities or even start writing or producing myself.

— Da'Vine Joy Randolph

All my characters are different from one another, and it's like I am living so many different lives simultaneously.

— Mrunal Thakur

Developing characters is a strange thing. In the beginning they are abstract and I wonder how to move on from there.

— Ann Brashares

I start with characters, and then I start writing, and then, if I'm lucky, things start to happen.

— Susan Choi

The more complicated the character, the better I am. It's the one-dimensional crap that I had to do for years that drove me crazy.

— Martin Landau

I don't try to find similarities with my characters because then it becomes difficult to act.

— Mahesh Manjrekar

There is a little bit of me in every part I do... I'm not really good enough to completely construct an all-new character.

— Zach Gilford

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

— Alexia Fast

Everyone is complicated one way or another. But it's interesting to dig into a complicated character, to try to find that within yourself.

— Lena Olin

I really become the characters when I'm writing them. I'll become one or two of them more than others, I'm consistent that way.

— Quentin Tarantino

I shy away from plot structure that depends on the characters behaving in ways that are going to eventually be explained by their childhood,…

— Rachel Kushner

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

— Taika Waititi