Always Quote by Tony Scott

I want to tell authentic, real stories with real characters.

— Adepero Oduye

Sometimes I make my life a living hell by writing complex stories with complex characters. But I love it.

— Anonymous

We have a writing process that's very much you try to create the character in a complicated way and then you let the story…

— Aaron Ehasz

I have always been attracted to good scripts and try hard to make characters as believable as possible. That means trying to figure out…

— Powers Boothe

Sometimes, I have themes that interest me or that touch on larger issues but, really, I'm just trying to figure out the plot, or…

— Brian Selznick

I've done a number of things based on real people or true stories or based on books, and I'm a great believer that you…

— Clive Owen

If you get the characters right you've done sometimes nearly half the work. I sometimes find I get the characters right then the characters…

— Terry Pratchett

I feel like there are things I can relate to in every character. But I feel like when you read a script, you don't…

— Martin Starr

The characters in my stories, whether historical or fictional, usually prove to be a compilation of influences taken from differing sources, but never drawn…

— Thomas Steinbeck

Every story I write starts with a dilemma or a theme. Once I am convinced that this is the issue that is perturbing my…

— Siegfried Lenz

Remember that you don't write a story because you have an idea but because you have a believable character.

— Anonymous

While I find inspiration in real life, the actual stories are, thankfully, works of fiction - which, given the considerable turmoil in my character's…

— Nicholas Sparks