Adaptation Quote by Robert Sikoryak

What you hear mostly people gripe about adaptations is, 'They took out this scene,' or, 'They had to condense these characters.' I understand why…

— Jay Asher

I'm fond of all my characters so every time one doesn't make the cut I'm a little disappointed although I understand it.

— George R. R. Martin

It's always appealing to play a character that has to overcome himself as well as an obstacle. It makes the drama so much deeper.

— Clint Eastwood

I think audiences definitely respond to people who are not living the perfect lives. The flawed characters, the people who are struggling. The antiheroes…

— Clea DuVall

Besides the mistakes that are pointed out, I love the way readers become involved with the characters. When readers start asking about character motivations…

— Alan Dean Foster

If the reader doesn't care or relate to the characters, all that visual spectacle is pretty but feels empty.

— Cliff Chiang

When you're playing a character in a book, there's already a lot of pressure because all of the millions of people who have read…

— Nikki Reed

It seems to me that most characters, in anything, are flawed in some way, just like most people. You look for the good in…

— Aidan Gillen

The finest quality of our characters do not come from trying but from the mysterious and yet most effective capacity to be inspired.

— Harry Emerson Fosdick

That’s the problem with fiction — or the charm, if you want. Even mediocre plots have a way of sinking their hooks into you,…

— Charles McGrath

The characters are complicated. The people you think are bad, may not be so bad, and the ones you think are good, may not…

— Neal Baer

I suppose that the sympathetic/unsympathetic debate about characters sometimes feels to me like a misstatement of purpose. I always think of truly complex characters…

— Rick Moody