#characters

My characters are fictional. I get ideas from real people, sometimes, but my characters always exist only in my head. ↗

— S. E. Hinton

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I like to take these unusual characters and then make them as normal as possible, because we all know that the tragedy and the abnormal always hides itself behind the normal. ↗

— Isabelle Huppert

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You don't buy evil characters lattes. That's not normal behavior. ↗

— Rob James-Collier

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I always start with characters rather than with a plot, which many critics would say is very obvious from the lack of plot in my films - although I think they do have plots - but the plot is not of primary importance to me, the characters are. ↗

— Jim Jarmusch

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I want to spend my time exploring the characters we've already got here. I want to give them more time to shine before the team gets to have 400 members. ↗

— Robert Kirkman

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One thing I hate in movies is when the camera starts circling around the characters. I find that totally fake. ↗

— Takeshi Kitano

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My Cape women are generally true to type - big hearted, motherly women who love the sea. My other characters, with the exception of the Portuguese, who I occasionally mention as Cape dwellers, are obviously drawn from the city types one sees in everyday life. ↗

— Joseph C. Lincoln

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I want to do a little bit of everything. I love sci-fi. I think it's more the characters that draw me towards things. I like strong women. I'm very interested in futuristic stuff, anything. ↗

— Sabrina Lloyd

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The pleasure of writing fiction is that you are always spotting some new approach, an alternative way of telling a story and manipulating characters; the novel is such a wonderfully flexible form. ↗

— Penelope Lively

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No matter who the characters are, you can strip them down and find small universal truths. ↗

— Jena Malone

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