Quotes About Characters

Revising stuff lately, I was shocked to see how often my characters scratched their ankles, felt their feet, and touched their own ears.

I find it very funny as well as touching that people associate me with these characters I play and form a connect with them.

There are bands who write of emotions that are very heartbreaking, touching, or relatable, but they'll be like concept records, they're about fictional characters.

I found school quite tough, but Saturday night was movie night, and I started to empathise with the characters on screen. I started to get more involved with what these people were experiencing. Film inspired me to do better.

A little light on the RPG elements but heavy on action, 'Mass Effect 2' was the game that created a world of characters that I actually cared about. When it came down to making those tough decisions during the final mission, I actually had to put the controller down and think about my choices.

When Josh and I are recording a record, we're very mindful of how the music will manifest itself live. That's where we have to live every day. When we tour for the next record, I imagine there will be a new story to tell, and we'll introduce new characters.

Most of my characters aren't hillbillies anyway. Let's just call them proletariat with a disposition towards criminal activity.

Because of streaming, serialized television has become less of a dirty word when you're pitching shows. I had to fight for that for so long as someone who's always gravitated towards ongoing story lines with characters that evolved and changed and storylines that continued over longer arcs.

Writers of historical fiction are often faced with a problem: if they include real-life people, how do they ensure that their make-believe world isn't dwarfed by truth? The question loomed large as I began reading 'The Black Tower', Louis Bayard's third foray into historical fiction and fifth novel overall.

I revel in movies where the monsters tower more over the tiny budgets than the characters they threaten.

I don't design stories to fit some political ideology. I design stories about characters who I love and care about, while trying to make sense of an increasingly mad and toxic and insane world.

I toy around with the whole Biblical thing, just as amazing characters.

One of the things that fascinates me most about the toys of the Sixties and Seventies is that they were characters without stories, as such.

As children, we did not have toys. We invented characters and animals; we invented stories.

Disney produces fabulous movies around certain characters, and then they commercialize that engagement through toys, books, cruises.

My biggest thing is that I would love in some form or fashion to return to the 'Marvel' universe, whether in television or a feature. I love the people at 'Marvel' and grew up reading the characters, and it was a real dream come true getting to play with the toys.

The fun of writing established characters is that there's a rich mythology to draw from - you get to play with toys you loved as a kid.

What's interesting about the 'Smash Bros.' games, is that the 'Smash Bros.' games do not represent the Nintendo characters fighting against one another: they actually represent toys of Nintendo characters getting into an imaginary battle amongst themselves.

We're taking the top iconic characters and bringing them to life as toys that our players can buy. We know that our players would like to play in both dimensions.

I try to trace the connection between the characters and that way a story or plot emerges.

It's necessary to track characters all the way through an opera. If you're dealing with more than one or two characters, it's very easy to forget that the others have lives of their own that feed into the story.

In a novel, it's hard to keep track of everybody.

If a movie has more characters than an audience can keep track of, the audience will get confused and lose interest in the story.

Freedom to tell any story I want, with all the imaginary tools of my trade, is why I love writing novels. I love taking an idea, fleshing it out into a new world - and going on adventures with characters who day-dream themselves into existence and take on lives of their own.