Quotes About Characters

Even if I see 300 'X-Files' fans together, I can't fathom - I cannot imagine - the audience itself. All I think about is the show and all I think about is why I like it and why I like to write it and why I like the characters and what I have to say through them.

But the general audience, if you want to grow your audience you need to tell stories, you need to have characters, and that's how you bring them in. That's my favorite part of the business.

My favorite thing about daytime, and 'Days' in particular, is that the door is always open for characters to reappear no matter how they left.

'Downton Abbey' is one of my favourite shows ever - it's just beautifully filmed, and the stories and characters are so wonderful.

Once you get into a feature, whether it's a sequel or an original one, you have to start all over again, and you're creating a world, creating new characters. You're also tracking emotions. You're trying to create emotion and create a character that you can fall in love with for two hours.

'Irma Voth' is my sixth book, but it's only the third time I've featured Mennonite settings and characters.

The feedback for 'P.S. I Still Love You' has been pretty amazing. To have written this story about this family with Asian-American characters and be so embraced is really incredible for me as a writer as well as a person of color.

I sometimes feel like I could do another job. Anything. Maybe because as an actress you're playing different characters, everything feels possible.

Kellie Overbey gave me this play called 'Girl Talk.' I read it and totally fell in love with the characters. I told her she had to let me direct it and put Marcia DeBonis in it.

I can't imagine writing a book without some strong female characters, unless that was a demand of the setting.

I like my male characters as much my female characters, but I always seem to have less for them to say.

I have always wanted to work with Lingusamy, as he is a master of commercial cinema. I have always admired his etching of female characters.

As a woman, I don't feel like I have a responsibility to create better female characters. I feel like I have a responsibility to create good characters. Because the truth is, those kinds of things ghettoize us even more as writers.

I'm attracted to films that have strong female characters because there are strong female characters in my life. That's my own reality, so it's a doorway into a world for me.

I just love strong female characters in general, not necessarily because, 'She's evil' or 'Oh, because she's good.'

A lot of animated movies in the past have sort of relied on these archaic tropes on what the female characters in those movies can be and who they are.

Something happened to me when I wrote female characters in my early plays; it was a real liberation.

The modern economics of the theater is such that we write plays with fewer and fewer characters.

Any author of fiction will tell you that characters don't need to be told what to do.

I think the thing is with a movie that has this much science fiction in it; you need characters who are more science fact, if you know what I mean, than they are human.

Basically, fiction is people. You can't write fiction about ideas.

The language fictional characters use is chosen for effect, at least if the author is concentrating.

While I've been well-known for trying to keep my fictional characters individual in their looks, it's an even greater challenge not only to make them individual but also identifiable.

The film industry is mostly about unidimensional characters.