When you're building a character, or at least when I'm building a character, you start saying, 'How am I going to make people like him?'.
It always takes awhile to find out who the characters are..
I tend to be attracted to characters who are up against a wall with very few alternatives. And the film then becomes an examination of how they cope ….
It was a great joy for me to develop a strong female character in the spirit of an Icelandic woman. Icelandic women tend to be very strong and very i….
There is no better indicators of character than the books you have..
Good character is property. It is the noblest of all possessions..
You can't do a movie without villains. You have to have something for the heroines or anti-heroines to be up against, and I wasn't going to contrive ….
All my novels are very much directly related to my inner life, even though I'm inventing characters, even though it's fiction, even though it's make-….
As a football player, you're really an actor. I spent all Sunday getting into character. Sunday at 10 a.m., I have to be upset with someone who didn'….
That the question of likability even exists in literary conversations is odd. It implies that we are engaging in a courtship. When characters are unl….
When people do love our show [Heroes] and they put on the costumes, they know everything about our characters. And it is overwhelming at the same tim….
You can't plan your character arc - you have a vague idea, maybe, but I'm constantly surprised. Sometimes actors in films will play the ending of the….
Characters in Hollywood movies encounter a lot of car chases. Characters in novels rarely wash their hands or do their laundry. And in the work of mo….
I felt like I was flying without a net. But once I realized that the audience was my partner, I was flying a jet, because the people would allow me t….
I don't like having characters as props. I never want a character to be a prop..
Exercise the writing muscle every day, even if it is only a letter, notes, a title list, a character sketch, a journal entry. Writers are like dancer….
It has been observed that a pure democracy if it were practicable would be the most perfect government. Experience has proved that no position is mor….
The most difficult part of any crime novel is the plotting. It all begins simply enough, but soon you're dealing with a multitude of linked character….
To me, casting is all about finding a character within the actor off the screen as much as on the screen..
For me, intrigue is a pretty powerful emotion. If you want to know more about a character, if you want to understand how they work, then you have eno….
What is power without control?.