Any Quote by Viggo Mortensen

This basic thing I always do: 'What happened between the character's birth, and page one of the script?' Anything that's not in the story,…

— Viggo Mortensen

One of the interesting parts of being on a television show is you often don't know the fate of your character until you're reading…

— Chris Messina

I try to construct some kind of backstory for my character so that I have an idea of the life of that character -…

— Carol Kane

Life experiences help in understanding the character. And many things come to your mind regarding the character sketch when you read the script as…

— Koel Mallick

I try to trace the connection between the characters and that way a story or plot emerges.

— Anita Desai

It's hard to know whether certain characters come to life or not, they either come to have their own life or they don't. I've…

— Neil Jordan

In any novel I write, I have in my mind several things which happened in the protagonist's past which I never mention in the…

— Roger Zelazny

I'm always writing from some difficult place and seeing how the character survives... or doesn't.

— Adam Silvera

In many of my plays, there was a kind of autobiographical character in the form of a son or young man. The purpose of…

— Sam Shepard

I build my characters from the day they're born to the first page of the script.

— Sydney Sweeney

It's important to me that I need to know what my character is about.

— Sameera Reddy

“They discuss the characters as though they were living people, and ask frequently, 'What happened to so-and-so?'... as if I got letters from them…

— Stephen King