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I feel my fuller-bodied characters are all in the independent films I do, and in the studio productions, I have to work harder to…

— Vera Farmiga

I knew I wasn't the sort of person who could do a full-time job and write in the evening and at weekends.

— Lisa Jewell

I'm always perversely attracted to characters that seem one thing, but are ultimately revealed as another...

— Tony Goldwyn

What's interesting about the movie and characters is that they're one thing to the world and another thing in their heads.

— Milla Jovovich

Before there was any talk of a movie, people would sometimes ask me what actors I would imagine playing these characters. And the only…

— Michael Cunningham

I like ambiguity because you may be the villain in someone else's story and the hero in your own, and I think very often,…

— Chadwick Boseman

We've carried that over into the visual development as well. We've designed quite an exotic cast of characters, but the last thing we want…

— Sam Wood

When you're on a staff, it's not your job to write what you think is funny. It's your job to write what the person…

— Billy Lawrence

The writer's job is not to write a novel, hold it up and say, “Here I am,” but to write a novel, hold it…

— Anonymous

My first job is to write the characters as full and authentic people as well as I can.

— Sara Zarr

I didn’t do anything. I don’t have an explanation, I don’t know why I wanted to write. I did some short stories at that…

— Don DeLillo

My only job is to write in such a way that the reader gets a new handle on humanity.

— Thomas Steinbeck