Camera Quote by Ramy Youssef

Representation means having characters with layers, showing them as human beings, so we can relate or have mixed emotions for that character.

— Jon M. Chu

Anytime you look at someone in detail, you're putting the camera on that person. What I typically look for is one or two or…

— Erik Larson

You write a character, but in essence, it's just a concept of what it could be, and then actors come in and they have…

— Panos Cosmatos

Everything's always got to be character-based. We know we can't, if we're sitting in the editing room, watch the sequence for more than 20…

— Anthony Russo

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

Representation is necessary, and we all want to turn on the TV and see characters who look like us and represent us in some…

— Nafessa Williams

In a film, if you can capture what's going on underneath, you can begin to make a connection between the character and the people…

— Annette Bening

Once you start writing a character visually, you're in trouble.

— Melissa McCarthy

I'm a very visual thinker, so the characters are running through my head, doing what they're doing when I'm writing them. And there'll be…

— Paul Dini

I write from this tight third-person viewpoint, where each chapter is seen through the eyes of one individual character. When I'm writing that character,…

— George R. R. Martin

Character is revealed through action.

— Aristotle

It's much easier to conjure characters strictly from your imagination than to have to think about whether you're representing people in a truthful way.

— Lynn Nottage