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Always when I directed the play, I was always trying to cast people not who were necessarily like the characters, but people who I felt had the essential component that the character had, some kind of soul for it (Characters Quotes)
The trite answer is that everything is true but none of it happened. It is emotionally true, but the events, the plotting, the narrative, isn’t true of my life, though I’ve experienced most of the emotions experienced by the characters in the play (Characters Quotes)
When I’m writing a novel, I’m dealing with a double life. I live in the present at the same time that I live in the past with my characters. It is this that makes a novelist so eccentric and unpleasant (Characters Quotes)
So the characters that I choose, I like to make sure that they have depth and that they have some sort of bite. It’s more fun (Characters Quotes)
I still have a problem with nuns. I follow them around like a kitten with a ball of yarn. After a while, all my characters become very close friends (Characters Quotes)
I wanted to write something from a child’s viewpoint... Five of the characters I have played in movies have either been abused or became abusers, themselves, and I just kind of felt like there was a need (Characters Quotes)
Every actor will tell you it’s so much more fun to play the bad guy because usually those characters are more complex and more broad and more interesting, and have more sides to them (Characters Quotes)
I try to ground most of my characters in reality somehow. That’s kind of what I bring to the table (Characters Quotes)
I had a very happy childhood, but I wasn’t that happy a child. I liked being alone and creating characters and voices. I think that’s when your creativity is developed, when you’re young. I liked the world of the imagination because it was an easy place to go to (Characters Quotes)
I love telling stories. I love the intimacy between the writer and reader. When you write sketches it’s over in two minutes. When you write a book the characters have to have a bit of emotional depth (Characters Quotes)
I go through a whole process with the actors first, building and creating characters, then I encourage them to sort of live in that character when they’re in the screen (Characters Quotes)
A conventional playwright tries to tell you more about the characters than they know about themselves (Characters Quotes)
In a lot of films, they’re showing more complete, developed characters of diverse ethnic backgrounds. The larger concern is to be able to tastefully explore the stereotypes, and still move past them to see the core of people (Characters Quotes)
An adventure game is nothing more than a good story set with engaging puzzles that fit seamlessly in with the story and the characters, and looks and sounds beautiful (Characters Quotes)
I know some things when I start. I know, let’s say, that the play is going to be a 1970s or a 1930s play, and it’s going to be about a piano, but that’s it. I slowly discover who the characters are as I go along (Characters Quotes)
The effects of human wickedness are written on the page of history in characters of blood: but the impression soon fades away; so more blood must be shed to renew it (Characters Quotes)
The heart and soul of network programming is series programming, the weekly repetition of characters you like having in your house (Characters Quotes)
When the venture has been made of dealing with historical events and characters, it always seems fair towards the reader to avow what liberties have been taken, and how much of the sketch is founded on history (Characters Quotes)
Characters can be mysterious and you’re not really sure which way they might turn at a given point (Characters Quotes)
I think people enjoy a series. When you like a story, many readers want more of the same, which is dandy, if the author and the characters have more to say (Characters Quotes)
If I get blocked, it is generally because I don’t know enough about some aspect of the story or the characters. The answer for this is generally more research, or making more background notes, so the place and person can be more fully realized inside my own mind (Characters Quotes)
I want my characters to suggest the background in themselves, even when it is not visible. I want them to be so powerfully realized that we cannot imagine them apart from their physical and social context even when we see them in empty space (Characters Quotes)
Christ does not dress up a moral picture, and ask you to observe its beauty. He only tells you how to live; and the most beautiful characters the world has ever seen, have been those who received and lived these precepts without once conceiving their beauty (Characters Quotes)
Many of the twisted minds and crippled characters in the world were made by careless parents who kept their children away from knives and fires, but put permanent scars on their souls (Characters Quotes)
It is the genus that gives the characters, and not the characters that make the genus (Characters Quotes)
To marry a man out of pity is folly; and, if you think you are going to influence the kind of fellow who has never had a chance, poor devil, you are profoundly mistaken. One can only influence the strong characters in life, not the weak; and it is the height of vanity to suppose that you can make an honest man of anyone (Characters Quotes)
I never know what’s going to happen or what opportunities are going to be given to me. I’ve found with the opportunities that I’ve been given have made it possible for me to explore different characters and exciting stories (Characters Quotes)
Sympathetic characters usually have a voice. They usually don’t have any trouble being heard (Characters Quotes)
A lot of comedies fall apart because they just go from joke to joke, and the characters are all sort of being crazy off on their own (Characters Quotes)
I believe that the writer should tell a story. I believe in plot. I believe in creating characters and suspense (Characters Quotes)