#hara

It always takes awhile to find out who the characters are. ↗

— Rene Auberjonois

#awhile #characters #find #out #takes

Every autobiography is concerned with two characters, a Don Quixote, the Ego, and a Sancho Panza, the Self. ↗

— W. H. Auden

#characters #concerned #don quixote #ego #every

I can move my characters through it easily, because I understand the background; I've really studied it. ↗

— Jean M. Auel

#because #characters #easily #i #i can

Whedon: Studios will tell you: A woman cannot headline an action movie. After The Hunger Games they might stop telling you that a little bit. Whatever you think of the movie, it’s done a great service. And after The Avengers, I think it’s changing. Johansson: A lot of the female superhero movies just suck really badly. Whedon: The suck factor is not small. Johansson: They are really not well made, and already you’re fighting against the tide. There are a couple [female-driven action movies] that have worked-ish, don’t you think? Hemsworth: Angelina Jolie tends to do it pretty well, as the dominant female. Jackson: They got to get The Pro to the screen! Whedon: [Groaning] See, that is the problem. Sam is the problem! Jackson: I love that book! Whedon: [Reluctantly] The Pro is hilarious. Jackson: The Pro’s hilarious. [To the group] You ever see or hear of it? Johansson: No, what’s The Pro? Jackson: It’s [a comic book] about a hooker who gets super powers! Johansson: [Pauses] That is exactly the problem right there. Whedon: That’s why I wasn’t going to bring up The Pro! (From an Entertainment Weekly interview) ↗

— Joss Whedon

#joss-whedon #sexism #stereotypes #whedon #change

I think the best stories always end up being about the people rather than the event, which is to say character-driven. ↗

— Stephen King

#on-writing #stories #storytelling #storytelling

Everybody gets hurt. Sometimes a big hurt, sometimes a little hurt. But the person who's suffered a lot isn't especially strong. And the person who's been hurt a little isn't especially weak. What's important is being able to get over it. ↗

— Sakura Tsukuba

#in-the-rain #miyama #takagihara #rain

A black shadow dropped down into the circle. It was Bagheera the Black Panther, inky black all over, but with the panther markings showing up in certain lights like the pattern of watered silk. Everybody knew Bagheera, and nobody cared to cross his path, for he was as cunning as Tabaqui, as bold as the wild buffalo, and as reckless as the wounded elephant. But he had a voice as soft as wild honey dripping from a tree, and a skin softer than down. ↗

— Rudyard Kipling

#character #descriptive #description

Man wishes woman to be peaceable, but in fact she is essentially warlike, like the cat. ↗

— Friedrich Nietzche

#kitty-lazarus #description

A good American makes propaganda for whatever existence has forced him to become. ↗

— Saul Bellow

#characterization #propaganda

That mess about judging people by the content of their character and not the color of their skin—that's some bullshit. Nobody has the right to judge anybody else. Period. If you ain't been in my skin, you ain't never gonna understand my character. ↗

— Emily Raboteau

#judge #judgement #skin-color #judgement