Character Quote by Ryan Gosling

It can be a fictional character and yet relatable... It always depends on the content of the film and what you are doing.

— Kartik Aaryan

What I think after reading the script and seeing where the story goes, I go with my instincts on the character. If my instincts…

— Josh Hutcherson

I just have to trust that the story is going to shake out in such a way that's going to be palatable to readers.

— Lynn Coady

My hope is that this movie will affect people on a very profound level and reach them with a message of faith, hope, love…

— Mel Gibson

I think characters are going to be, if not a reflection of the author, at least some refraction of some part of their personality.

— Diana Gabaldon

A lot of writers will take a character at the beginning of a story. And that character will stay the same all the way…

— Adrian Lester

The characters are whole, real people to me that I'm getting to know, and since real people are all flawed, so are my characters,…

— Sara Zarr

I think it would be self-indulgent to go, "Oh, I'm going to make this character different by giving him a quirk of some kind."…

— David Tennant

As an actor, I think a mistake that any storyteller can make is to play the ending.

— John Hawkes

No matter how extreme things get, it still has that ring of truth about it that backs the characters - even though they're despicable…

— Andy Serkis

I believe that written stories will continue to survive because they answer an essential human need. I think movies might disappear before the novel…

— Jonathan Lethem

I think if characters change too much, it's unrealistic; their whole fabric of who they are as a person doesn't just disappear.

— Theodore Melfi