Characters Quote by Taika Waititi Download Open image “Characters I create are just mixtures of the people I know.” — Taika Waititi ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.4 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare Characters Create Creativity Just Know People
Creating characters is like throwing together ingredients for a recipe. I take characteristics I like and dislike in real people I know, or know… — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
Some of my characters are a mixture of various aspects of people I have met. others are pure invention. — Alexander McCall Smith Copy Share Image
I create each character as an individual, coming from a certain place, sounding a certain way, having been introduced to things a certain way. — Martin Landau Copy Share Image
My characters are based on people I know, but not in a direct way. — MacKenzie Scott Copy Share Image
All characters come from people I know, but after the initial inspiration, I tend to modify the characters so they fit with the story. — Nicholas Sparks Copy Share Image
Some of my characters are drawn from people I know whereas others are an amalgamation of people or one specific person. Sometimes a character… — Zoya Akhtar Copy Share Image
I write characters that are based on elements of people I know and experiences I've really had. — Aziz Ansari Copy Share Image
Most characters are composed of snippets here and there of people I've known, and all rolled into the character I've created. They do become… — Nicholas Sparks Copy Share Image
I think one of the things you have to learn if you're going to create believable characters is never to make generalizations about groups… — Mark Haddon Copy Share Image
People are infinitely more interesting than characters that I come up with. Because the characters I come up with are basically combinations of people… — Sarnath Banerjee Copy Share Image
As you become acquainted with a character you are creating, you add parts of yourself that are pertinent to that character. — Chuck Jones Copy Share Image
All of my characters tend to be montages of different people I've met: little bits and pieces of their personalities put together. — Rick Riordan Copy Share Image
I come from a big extended family, so it's very normal to be around babies for us, but when it's your own, it's a… — Taika Waititi Copy Share Image
That's what attracts me to the kind of characters I try and write - that they're not cut and dried. — Taika Waititi Copy Share Image
In a couple of years I think it [sequel to What We Do] will come out as a script and we'll shoot that. Or… — Taika Waititi Copy Share Image
When you're on set, you're like, 'Everyone's judging me because I'm the director, and everyone thinks I'm doing this because I just love myself… — Taika Waititi Copy Share Image
My father is a visual artist, so I was influenced by him, and my mother is an English teacher who forced me to read… — Taika Waititi Copy Share Image
New Zealand was such a weird place in the 1980s. For instance, we used to have this commercial in the late 1970s where this… — Taika Waititi Copy Share Image
I think... part of life skills is also socialising... I think many people make the mistake of not going out... You can spend a… — Taika Waititi Copy Share Image
I loved him [Ke Huy Quan as Short-Round in Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom] - everyone loved him when I saw the… — Taika Waititi Copy Share Image
I've always said that, first and foremost, I make films for New Zealanders. They're my target audience. Then after that, if people appreciate my… — Taika Waititi Copy Share Image
I find that a lot of child actors are ruined once they've done a job. — Taika Waititi Copy Share Image
I am tired of our characters being so incomplete. When do we ever save the day in a film? When does a Latino actor… — Esai Morales Copy Share Image
I'm writing about real things. Real people. Real characters. You have to believe what I write about is true or you wouldn't pay any… — Lou Reed Copy Share Image
I'm truly, 100% guided by the characters and my Muse. If one of the characters suddenly decided to do something very different, I'd just… — Lori Foster Copy Share Image
You do get fond of your characters. Handing them on is like giving a child to a nanny. — Julian Fellowes Copy Share Image
Your job as a writer is to find storylines, narrative structures, and characters to show the things that you believe rather than saying them… — Philipp Meyer Copy Share Image
On the stage, the characters express themselves more through words than images. So the arguments of the characters and the tension between characters -… — Alan Alda Copy Share Image
I really like all of the characters in 'The Secret History' by Donna Tartt, especially Camilla, the one girl. I find her fascinating. — Hannah Murray Copy Share Image
I've just always loved really good projects. The things that draw me into a new project have very little to do with genre and… — Jewel Staite Copy Share Image
“Take care of your costume and your confidence will take care of itself.” — Amit Kalantri Copy Share Image
My characters in both 'Pyaar Ka Punchnama' films were so relatable that every other guy connects with me. — Kartik Aaryan Copy Share Image
I think if you're too embroiled in the need to relate too closely to the character, then you start to judge the character for… — Cate Blanchett Copy Share Image
There is a comfort zone of knowing where things are going and having characters in place, but the action gets more and more dramatic… — Jerry B. Jenkins Copy Share Image
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