Quotes about character
character stories ifs
The characters are telling you the story. I’m not telling you the story, they’re going to do it. If I do it right, you will get the whole story. George V. Higgins
character thinking reader
Show the reader what the character thinks about, and then the reader will think about it too.
character together stories
I just felt like, you know, I read a lot of scripts out in L.A., out here in the industry and I just felt like this film was just being genuine. I just felt like it had really great characters. And all the three different characters have completely different stories and they're all kind of intertwined together thematically. So I just thought it had great characters, great themes George Tillman, Jr.
character names guy
I'm a big fan of the 70's action films. Where there is a lot of character and a lot of great action, but the action is kind of cemented with a great back-story with characters. And I thought, this kind of reminded me of the movies that, early on when I was telling Dwayne (Johnson) and the guys, the producer... my whole thing is if you look at a movie like The Driver by Walter Hill, it's a film where there's no names. They are just named, "the driver", "the cop".
character class three
If you ask any ordinary reader which of Dickens's proletarian characters he can remember, the three he is almost certain to mention are Bill Sykes, Sam Weller and Mrs. Gamp. A burglar, a valet and a drunken midwife-not exactly a representative cross-section of the English working class. George Orwell
character cutting littles
I'm fond of all my characters so every time one doesn't make the cut I'm a little disappointed although I understand it. George R. R. Martin
character writing exercise
I think my very earliest stories were all intellectual exercises and I was writing from experiences I had never had about characters who were about an inch deep.
character black-and-white grey
I prefer to work with grey characters rather than black and white.
character emotional attachment
I have a huge emotional attachment to characters I've created, especially the viewpoint characters.
character should-have choices
Tolkien made the wrong choice when he brought Gandalf back. Screw Gandalf. He had a great death and the characters should have had to go on without him.
character writing play
I do play all the characters, when I write them, one after another. If they actually had to film me, the only one I could play would be Samwell Tarly or Hot Pie.
character grieving care
You should grieve if a fictional character is killed. You should care.
character soul woods
There are too many souls of wood not to love those wooden characters who do indeed have a soul. Jean Cocteau
character wish television
I wish I had more control, more like Edgar Rice Burroughs had, but I'm a realist, too. I work in television. I don't know that I would want to spend the rest of my life controlling my characters. Gene Roddenberry
character pride melting
that strange conflict in the American character: we pride ourselves on being the melting pot of the world but we insist on regarding most immigrants with suspicion. Gene Tierney
character fate stories
I guess you can stay sort of true to the story; you don't have to artificially bring the character back from whatever doom you've designed for them, you can tell the story, I suppose, honestly. Garth Ennis
character upset balance
Hitman does well and it certainly does well enough to survive, but at the same time I don't want to involve the character into the DC Universe even if it meant more sales, to the point where we sort of upset the balance that we have at the moment.
character writing looks
If you look at Marvel Comics, there are very few Marvel characters I would like to write.
character people literature
It would have shown people that I was prepared to do that kind of work, although I find myself in a position now where I don't really need to and I could pick and choose the kind of characters I'd like to do.
character kids childhood
The comics I read as a kid were much more influenced by TV and movies. Encountering superheroes as an adult without that kind of childhood sentimentality, it just doesn't allow you, or in my case at least, it wouldn't let me take the characters seriously.
character design guy
Howard Chaykin was one of the few who dared to make mainstream comics different back in the eighties; it was guys like him, Alan Moore and Frank Miller who made sure there'd be no going back. Howard's work on The Shadow is amongst his very best: razor-sharp character work, sizzling dialogue and an unsurpassed sense of layout and design.
character play shining
When you play a character, you bring yourself into the character. You get a chance to shine and show your translation for the character and her state of mind. Gal Gadot
character littles missions
The characters that I create are parts of myself and I send them on little missions to find out what I don’t know yet. Gail Godwin
character men self
Shields Green was not one to shrink from hardships or dangers. He was a man of few words, and his speech was singularly broken; but his courage and self-respect made him quite a dignified character. Frederick Douglass
character mean destiny
Our community belongs to us and whether it is mean or majestic, whether arrayed in glory or covered in shame, we cannot but share its character and destiny.
character men color
A man's character always takes its hue, more or less, from the form and color of things about him.
character opposites compromise
The opposite of compromise is character.
character past creative
I'm trying to listen to my past, listen to what's most deeply going on inside myself, my creative set of fictional characters, a fictional world - to listen to that world, to search. Frederick Buechner
character journey perfect
Create a really interesting, complex person that you want to know more about, and take her on a journey that is rich and fulfilling and that has an end that is perfectly fulfilling, and that has an end that is perfect for that character, and the audience will love it. Frank Spotnitz
character eye people
The primary reason people watch television is you want to see the world through somebody else's eyes, and learn what that's like. You can only live one life, and so you get to see other lives through these characters.
character years creating
The challenge is creating a character that's rich and interesting to warrant following for a number of years.
character civilization history
In the end, the character of a civilization is encased in its structures. Frank Gehry
character different distinctive
An absolutely different and distinctive character.