Character Quote by Marshall Curry

I think the idea is to try and understand everything about the characters and where the character is coming from, from their point of…

— Paul Dano

I'm not one of those actors who likes to analyze things too much, so I trust what the writers are doing with the characters,…

— John Barrowman

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

It's the emotional trigger points that are important to me because I know if I could believe in the characters and try and imagine…

— Graeme Murphy

I wanted to give readers the feeling of knowing the characters, a mental image.

— Michael Chabon

I try to trace the connection between the characters and that way a story or plot emerges.

— Anita Desai

The characters are the result of two things-first, we elaborate them into fairly well-defined people through their dialogue, then they happen all over again,…

— Joel Coen

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

— Jeffrey Eugenides

It's a fun thing to do, to put yourself in the service of something if you think you can add an interpretation. It's no…

— Joss Whedon

It's the writer's job to stage confrontations, so the characters will say surprising and revealing things, and educate and entertain us all.

— Kurt Vonnegut

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

— Rachelle Lefevre

Everything characters say or do is a clue to their personalities, their histories, and the forces that motivate them.

— William G. Tapply