Benefits Quote by Matt Nix

I think I do pretty well with child characters. It's hard to write kids that are realistic, not annoying, and bring something to the…

— Elizabeth Hoyt

I wanted to write something from a child's viewpoint... Five of the characters I have played in movies have either been abused or became…

— Meg Tilly

I like characters like Ignatius Reilly in 'A Confederacy of Dunces' and Ricky Gervais's character in 'The Office.' They think one thing about themselves,…

— Stephan Pastis

I like characters that make me feel challenged and sort of inspired.

— Paul Dano

I love developing children as characters. Children rarely have important roles in literary fiction - they are usually defined as cute or precious, or…

— Barbara Kingsolver

I have a particular dislike for children's films. I'm way past the novelty aspect.

— Nick Cave

I happen to still like really dark, dramatic, fractured characters. They're the reason I got into movies.

— Nicolas Cage

I'm attracted to polarizing characters who upend the civility of life.

— Mike White

I like to play with transgression and upending conventions, and I like the idea of rooting genre films in character.

— Ari Aster

As a kid, I was always very into secondary characters - things that weren't supposed to be the focus. The kind of people that…

— Julio Torres

I love to play characters who are stuffy and nerdy who either then have a dark side or are pushed to a breaking point.

— Andy Daly

I really relate to outsider characters. Especially the eccentric, lunatic weirdos like Alfred Hitchcock, Viktor Navorski in The Terminal, or the Anvil guys. Everything…

— Sacha Gervasi