Character Quote by Paul Haggis

Human existence is based upon two pillars: Compassion and knowledge. Compassion without knowledge is ineffective; knowledge without compassion is inhuman.

— Anonymous

“It is important never to separate love and knowledge, compassion and wisdom. A wisdom without compassion is closed upon itself and does not bear…

— Jean-Yves Leloup

“What happens to an evil soul once you offer her knowledge about compassion, love, life, people, moral and ethics? That is an easy question,…

— Robin Sacredfire

I want to have compassion for my characters - I feel like I am the characters when I'm writing them.

— Mike White

Writers tend to hate recurring characters; there's this writer snob thing about it. But I don't have that. I feel like the challenge is…

— Ana Gasteyer

I couldn't say no when I received that offer [to re-invent the DC characters]... How can any writer say no to the opportunity of…

— Stan Lee

My impulse is to create an aesthetic that's about a humanistic approach to a world and trying to create compassion for all the characters.

— Mike White

I'm an actor, and I want to play flawed characters, and I'm a writer that wants to write flawed characters, trying to let something…

— Brett Gelman

I've always had a compassion for characters in novels - the sense that they are, whatever they might think, living in a world that…

— John Crowley

I believe that to create real-seeming characters, the writer must be willing to go on a voyage of self-exploration. It can be revealing and…

— Sara Paretsky

if an author would have us feel a strong degree of compassion, his characters must not be too perfect.

— Anna Letitia Barbauld

I'm a filmmaker, and I was most influenced by Hitchcock's films. How he could plant such deep enriched characters and then make us care…

— Paul Haggis