Many Quote by Rudy Ruettiger

I never saw a true representation - an iconic hero - for myself. It just got boring, reading about all these really powerful and…

— Salim Akil

What helped me a lot was that I chose an American lead protagonist, because that liberated a lot from my own knowledge. If I…

— Karan Bajaj

I was fascinated by a compelling character embroiled in a controversial topic that told the story from a different point of view.

— Bjorn Borg

I go straight from thinking about my narrator to being him.

— S. E. Hinton

The Miguel Syjuco character is not me. I wanted him to represent my own fears and frustrations and guilt, my own worst tendencies and…

— Miguel Syjuco

I am drawn to characters so full of internal contradictions. Idi Amin was one. I loved writing him.

— Peter Morgan

People always want to identify a writer with their protagonist.

— Monica Ali

For me, with any character, there are different ways that you approach understanding him, and in this film in particular, because I had the…

— Asa Butterfield

[James] Baldwin was a revelation for me, the kind of revelation that follows you all your life because you can go back to it.…

— Raoul Peck

I love James Baldwin essays, but also his novels. I recently read "Another Country." I couldn't believe how ahead of his time he was.

— Laila Lalami

I must admit to being greatly influenced by Joseph Campbell's The Hero With a Thousand Faces.

— Norman Spinrad

Many characters in the novel are representative of types that exist in India. He represents the caste system in India with an air of…

— Anita Desai