#characters

I always think it's really hard if you are Asian or Chinese to be really in Hollywood. There are not so many really great characters for you. ↗

— Ziyi Zhang

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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

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I try to write about real women, real people - in other words flawed characters. ↗

— Emily Giffin

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

— John Cazale

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What's the difference between Hollywood characters and my characters? Mine are real. ↗

— Spike Lee

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It's hard to know exactly how people develop the characters they do. There could be people from humble beginnings that turn into jerks. Some characteristics are just part of that special soul of that human being. ↗

— David Maraniss

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When I'm writing a novel, I'm dealing with a double life. I live in the present at the same time that I live in the past with my characters. It is this that makes a novelist so eccentric and unpleasant. ↗

— John Phillips Marquand

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My characters have undergone the same process of simplification as the colors. Now that they have been simplified, they appear more human and alive than if they had been represented in all their details. ↗

— Joan Miro

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Other people, including me, have written books with main characters who were old and rich. Or old and brilliant. Old sages, old wizards, old rich people. ↗

— Elizabeth Moon

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I like complicated characters. ↗

— Greg Kinnear

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