Character Quote by Jon M. Chu

Representation is actually when the character doesn't have lines, but the camera is lingering on them in their thoughts after something happened, and then…

— Ramy Youssef

Representation is everything.

— Storm Reid

Representation is necessary, and we all want to turn on the TV and see characters who look like us and represent us in some…

— Nafessa Williams

“Representation involves definition, exclusion, separation.”

— John Holloway

Character is expressed through our behavior patterns, or natural responses to things.

— Joyce Meyer

You write a character, but in essence, it's just a concept of what it could be, and then actors come in and they have…

— Panos Cosmatos

Character is the spiritual body of the person, and represents the individualization of vital experience, the conversion of unconscious things into self-conscious men.

— Edwin Percy Whipple

“Representation for representation sake is very dangerous.”

— Malebo Sephodi

“In the Heideggerian conception of representation, ‘representation’ is neither used in its everyday multiplicity of uses nor in the sense of presenting an image,…

— Barbara Bolt

When I think about [characters], I like to think of them in their relationships to each other. In the same way, I think that's…

— John Green

It's much easier to conjure characters strictly from your imagination than to have to think about whether you're representing people in a truthful way.

— Lynn Nottage

Creating characters is like throwing together ingredients for a recipe. I take characteristics I like and dislike in real people I know, or know…

— Cassandra Clare