Character Quote by Tamara Jenkins

I don't really write with actors in mind; I write with characters and then hope desperately that we can get good actors to play…

— Jack Thorne

I always think that the deal, once I do the script, sort of the experience I go through writing, which is everything you can…

— James L. Brooks

Whether it's a very dramatic part or a comical role, I feel I need to create the same thing: a full-fledged, three-dimensional character that…

— Christopher Lloyd

I've always remembered something Sanford Meisner, my acting teacher, told us. When you create a character, it's like making a chair, except instead of…

— Robert Duvall

When you're doing characters from famous novels, you have a responsibility as an actor to make it what the writer intended. And then you…

— David Suchet

There is something special about being an actor and able to bring somebody's visualisation - director, storywriter and script writer - into life. It…

— Diana Penty

Normally, filmmakers would just write a script and cast people to act as certain characters in the story. But in my way of doing…

— Wong Kar-wai

You're trying to create a screenplay and your screenplay is there to give you a structure, rigidity, situational awareness, who the characters are, what…

— Paul Greengrass

I believe that as a writer and a director, you're only providing the skeleton of a character, and you're hiring actors to fill it…

— Christopher McQuarrie

My own personal process with movies is to develop the characters with the actors and, when I've done that properly, you can't imagine anyone…

— Doug Liman

Any actor would love to just pick up a script and be like, 'I can connect to this person, and I can see myself…

— Percelle Ascott

The idea for actors is to make a living telling stories, so if you can do that, then you're way ahead of the game.

— John C. McGinley