Character Quote by Jon Hurwitz

With any character, I try to focus more on who the character is and how they got to be who they are.

— Rachelle Lefevre

Whenever we've approached a story, it's always started with the character, and the idea of some character struggling with some part of himself. That's…

— Anna Boden

I love to start characters in a place where you think you know them. We can make all kinds of assumptions about them and…

— Callie Khouri

When you can have a character that the audience likes from the beginning, but then you put them in a situation where they grow…

— John Lasseter

I believe the most intricate plot won't matter much to readers if they don't care about the characters, especially in a series. So I…

— Jeff Abbott

When we approach characters, we don't have their full story in mind right off the bat. Through the writing process we raise questions about…

— Anna Boden

I think even the characters that are fundamentally evil and wrong, I want people to really love them. I think that's important to writing…

— Mark Russell

I have trouble describing characters because there is just too much going on in human beings.

— Lisa Kudrow

I don't start with the characters. I start with the series of events that will provide the conflict and how it can be resolved.…

— Ashwin Sanghi

When you approach it, and I hate sounding like the pretentious actor, but yeah, I think you have to find things within the character…

— Steve Carell

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

For me, portraying a character is not about liking or disliking it; it's about meeting a challenge that's thrown at you.

— Manoj Bajpayee