Character Quote by Phillipa Soo

You play the honesty of the characters and show a side of them that people can relate to and want to get to know.

— Brian Tyree Henry

You get to crack the code of the play. You get to really pick at it and see, 'What is the story that we're…

— Phillipa Soo

When your characters are really living they tell you what they do.

— Andrea Arnold

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

— Anita Desai

Often I'll find clues to where the story might go by figuring out where the characters would rather not go.

— Douglas A. Lawson

You have to find something there that relates to the characters and reality on some level.

— Victor Garber

I like to find characters. Here's the bottom line: I can't play someone if I can't figure out what he cares about. Everybody cares…

— William Fichtner

Either you capture the mystery of things or you reveal the mystery. Everything else is just information.

— Raghu Rai

I look for characters that interest me, and a story that keeps me involved and makes me want to know what happens next.

— Curtis Hanson

We have a writing process that's very much you try to create the character in a complicated way and then you let the story…

— Aaron Ehasz

I try mainly to just focus on character and what my character's point of view is, with each person, and try to figure out…

— Katie Cassidy

Normally, you spend the play convincing people of the world and the characters.

— Jamie Parker