Character Quote by Johnny Galecki

When I first starting conceiving series like 'Courtney,' 'Polly,' 'How Loathsome,' etc., I was shooting for closed story-arcs but open-ended concepts. Then I started…

— Ted Naifeh

There's a thing, in general, about doing any kind of series, especially when the characters remain the same. It's just that you can go…

— Robert Pattinson

You have to think about good storytelling and characters first. Then hopefully, the rest of that stuff will follow, some more than others. But…

— Pete Docter

What audiences love with series is that they can invest in characters for such a long period of time, and it's the same for…

— Florence Pugh

In order to have a TV series, you have to have a good idea for the story.

— Tiny Tim

There's a thing, in general, about doing any kind of series, especially when the characters remain the same, to go back and try to…

— Robert Pattinson

Matthew Wiener on 'Mad Men' writes the entire series before they start shooting, and if you have that, then what you can do with…

— Salman Rushdie

As a writer, you have to realize that people want to like the characters, so you have to be careful to keep them involved.

— Alexander McCall Smith

I'm not really one of those people who goes and writes some big back story and agonizes over characters. I think you kind of…

— Rose McGowan

Sometimes it's less about the character and more about the story for me. I'll play a rock in the background if I think the…

— Zoe Kravitz

Unlike other books or TV shows or sometimes life, my narrative worlds are stripped of implicit moral centers. There is only what you bring.…

— Chris Abani

In real life, people are constantly saying one thing and doing another, but if you write your characters that way, the story becomes too…

— Jessica Cutler