#characters

Your characters have to remain innocent of what your picture is after. ↗

— Douglas Sirk

#characters #innocent #picture #remain #your

I have this theory that the likeability question comes up so much more with female characters created by female authors than it does with male characters and male authors. ↗

— Curtis Sittenfeld

#characters #comes #created #does #female

Well, I think in my first two novels, both the characters are pretty neurotic, which I would say that I am. ↗

— Curtis Sittenfeld

#both #characters #first #i #i am

With all of the qualities of the scene-setting, the dialogue, the place and time and the time and place in which your characters move. And I want to move with the characters, move with them and describe the world in which they are living. ↗

— Gay Talese

#describe #dialogue #i #living #move

I don't understand labels. I don't need anybody to tell me I'm Latina or black or anything else. I've played characters that were written for Caucasian females, I just want to be given the same consideration as everybody else, and so far that has been happening. ↗

— Zoe Saldana

#anything #been #black #caucasian #characters

Normally, we see characters that have God complexes. How interesting, I thought, it would be to capitalize on that. And say, OK, well fine, you have a God complex, well this person has a Satan complex. And the doctor chooses to treat him scientifically. ↗

— Eriq La Salle

#characters #chooses #complex #complexes #doctor

Definitely they write themselves. It's an amazing experience. It's like the characters have come alive and are sitting on my shoulder talking to me, telling me their tales. ↗

— R. A. Salvatore

#amazing #amazing experience #characters #come #definitely

I'm trying to make all the characters change and grow, or regress. ↗

— R. A. Salvatore

#characters #grow #i #make #regress

In the past, TSR and now Wizards of the Coast have asked me to do game stats for my characters, and I'm never comfortable doing that. It's all relative after all. ↗

— R. A. Salvatore

#asked #characters #coast #comfortable #doing

I don't usually direct actors in the classic sense of that word. Instead, I try to remind the characters before the shoot what's going on in a very simple way. I then watch them, their inventions as actors, approving or not approving what they're doing. ↗

— Gus Van Sant

#before #characters #classic #direct #doing