#characters

Much of the time life is a sort of rhythmic progression of three characters. If one tells oneself that life is like that, one feels it less arbitrary. ↗

— Francoise Sagan

#characters #feels #less #life #life is a

A great novel is concerned primarily with the interior lives of its characters as they respond to the inconvenient narratives that fate imposes on them. Movie adaptations of these monumental fictions often fail because they become mere exercises in interior decoration. ↗

— Richard Schickel

#become #characters #concerned #decoration #exercises

It was a big deal to me to play characters and feel things and connect to somebody in a fake world. ↗

— Amanda Seyfried

#big deal #characters #connect #deal #fake

In particular, people have trouble understanding where I stand in relation to my characters, and very often this gets reduced to me making vicious fun of them. ↗

— Todd Solondz

#fun #gets #i #making #me

I mean we all played as kids. You play games, you take on different characters, you imitate; the fun and the love of play has never left me. ↗

— Kevin Spacey

#different #different characters #fun #games #i

Over the years, I've been trying to build a relationship with an audience. I've tried to maintain as much of a low profile as I could so that those characters would emerge and their relationship with audiences would be protected. ↗

— Kevin Spacey

#audiences #been #build #characters #could

I do not use profanity in my novels. My characters all go to church. ↗

— Nicholas Sparks

#church #go #i #i do #novels

All characters come from people I know, but after the initial inspiration, I tend to modify the characters so they fit with the story. ↗

— Nicholas Sparks

#characters #come #fit #i #initial

Normally you read a screenplay - and I read a lot of them - and the characters don't feel like people. They feel like plot devices or cliches or stereotypes. ↗

— Joseph Gordon-Levitt

#cliches #devices #feel #i #like

The characters can't be wittier than people are in real life. They have to be character witty. ↗

— Dylan Moran

#characters #life #people #real #real life