Quotes About Characters

Mythical figures live many lives, die many deaths, and in this they differ from the characters we find in novels, who can never go beyond the single gesture. But in each of these lives and deaths all the others are present, and we can hear their echo. Only when we become aware of a sudden consistency between incompatibles can we say we have crossed the threshold of myth.

What an amusing drama life is when one is not obliged to be one of the characters!

Their costumes look purchased from the Goodwill store on Tatoine.

I have often asked myself, "What would it look like if the characters in a movie were animatronic puppets created by aliens with an imperfect mastery of human behavior?" Now I know.

We'd had a revelation. This was the direction American movies should take: into idiosyncratic characters, into dialogue with an ear for the vulgar and the literate, into a plot free to surprise us about the characters, into an existential ending not required to be happy.

Besides, I'm in the theater, darlin'. I meet an awful lot of strange people. It's an occupational hazard.

I often wonder if we were all characters in one of God's dreams.

But the people we don't know are only characters in the human comedy. We are the tragedians.

A TV show is its characters. When you describe a TV show, you're describing the characters and the situation they're in.

Plenty of people were writing novels; in fact, if one did a survey in the street, half of Edinburgh was writing a novel, and this meant that there really weren't enough characters to go round. Unless, of course, one wrote about people who were themselves writing novels. And what would the novels that these fictional characters were writing be about? Well, they would be novels about people writing novels.

I have looked at it with all possible attention, said Dantes, and I only see a half-burnt paper, on which are traces of Gothic characters inscribed with a peculiar kind of ink.

A work of fiction grips our imaginations because we care, both about the characters in the tale and about ourselves. To put it another way, we are concerned about the outcome of the story because what is happening to the characters could happen to us.

We can none of us say why this thing, or that thing. The book was done written when the characters were born.

This is as good a place as any to insist that all the characters in Evangellyfish are fictional, and I made them all up out of my own head. Any resemblance to any real people, living or dead, is their own darn fault. If they quit acting like that, the resemblance would cease immediately and we wouldn't have to worry about it.

I start drawing, and eventually the characters involve themselves in a situation. Then in the end, I go back and try to cut out most of the preachments.

I write about relationships and I try to create real-life characters.

Noble characters and pure affections and happy scenes are very comforting things. They're a refuge from life's disillusionments.

I don't think I really invented anybody. I have drawn on real life.

I spent my life folded between the pages of books. In the absence of human relationships I formed bonds with paper characters.

The result is a picture that represents so much of what I want and rarely get from a movie - a couple of hours filled with characters who are as exciting as the people I know in real life.

Children pay little attention to their parents' teachings, but reproduce their characters faithfully

I always start with characters rather than with a plot, which many critics would say is very obvious from the lack of plot in my films—although I think they do have plots—but the plot is not of primary importance to me, the characters are.

In a science fiction novel, the world is a character, and often the most important character. In a mainstream novel, the world is implicitly our world, and the characters are the world.

Todos los narradores tienen que elegir —explicó el contador de historias—. Algunos envuelven a sus personajes en un halo de desesperación, mientras que otros eligen un aura de esperanza.