Approach Quote by Marion Cotillard

With all of my characters, I don't go into it thinking I want to explore this part of myself.

— Cole Escola

I tend not to approach things intellectually at first. Maybe after the fact i can look at it and see ultimately what it's doing.…

— Sam Levinson

My interest is always to get as deeply as I can into the minds and spirits of the characters and let the readers empathize…

— Adam Haslett

I think once everything is in place, once you've kind of wrapped your head around the story and the character, it's very liberating and…

— Michiel Huisman

I'm hopefully making the reader feel a lot about the characters and then about their own life.

— Jeffrey Eugenides

Characters have changed my mind about some very fundamental moral issues, and that's the real satisfaction in the way I write - the ultimate…

— Karen Traviss

It could get saturated or monotonous if I would do the same characters again and again. That is why, to save myself from that…

— Rani Mukerji

Part of me becomes the characters I'm writing about. I think readers feel like they are there, the way I am, as a result.

— Louis Sachar

In the two or three or four months that it takes me to write a play, I find that the reality of the play…

— Edward Albee

When I get excited about a character, I'll start doing things as the character and thinking about what the character would do.

— Brigid Brannagh

I usually focus on the whole group of characters in any given work-in-progress, and as a result they become particularly dear to me as…

— Vera Nazarian

My primary intention is to put myself in characters that would take me to new places and keep myself satisfied.

— Arjun Mathur