#characters

In Maurice I tried to create a character who was completely unlike myself or what I supposed myself to be: someone handsome, healthy, bodily attractive, mentally torpid, not a bad business man and rather a snob. Into this mixture I dropped an ingredient that puzzles him, wakes him up, torments him and finally saves him. ↗

— E.M. Forster

#glbtq #novelist #business

If you treat your characters like people, they'll reward you by being fully developed individuals. ↗

— Don Roff

#inspirational #writing #inspirational

All the characters in my films are fighting these problems, needing freedom, trying to find a way to cut themselves loose, but failing to rid themselves of conscience, a sense of sin, the whole bag of tricks. ↗

— Michelangelo Antonioni

#characters #conscience #cut #failing #fighting

Truth is not exciting enough to those who depend on the characters and lives of their neighbors for all their amusement. ↗

— George Bancroft

#characters #depend #enough #exciting #lives

I think it's a short story writer's duty, as well as writing well about emotions and characters, to write story. ↗

— Eric Brown

#characters #duty #emotions #i #i think

I sometimes wonder if the inability to find oneself makes one seek oneself in other people, in characters. ↗

— John Cazale

#find #i #inability #makes #oneself

The ability of Americans to toss off oppressive characters is the most rewarding aspect, to me, of U.S. history. ↗

— Norman Corwin

#aspect #characters #history #me #most

I much prefer playing the bad guys. I think they are always the most interesting characters. I liken it to painting: if you're playing the good guy, you get three colors: red, white and blue. But if you're the bad guy, you get the whole palette. ↗

— Ronny Cox

#bad #bad guy #bad guys #blue #characters

I think all those actors from that generation, like Bogart - they were wonderful actors. They didn't act. They just came on and they did it, and the characters were wonderful. ↗

— Anthony Hopkins

#bogart #came #characters #did #generation

I had no intention of pursuing either the characters or the setting further. ↗

— Stephen R. Donaldson

#either #further #had #i #intention