Nick Harkaway Quotes

All of my characters, I feel, have some essence of who I am in them.

In each of my characters there is a little of me. Not strictly autobiographical but a little piece of my soul.

There's me in every character I put on the pages.

All my movies have an autobiographical dimension, but that is indirectly, through the personages. In fact, I am behind everything that happens and that is said, but I am never talking about myself in first person singular.

I see bits and pieces of me in all the characters in my films.

There are bits of me in all my characters.

I think it's nearly impossible to write something fictional without having it be about yourself in some way or another.

The people in my songs are all me.

Well, I think that in every character there are little bits and pieces of yourself.

Ultimately, I don't think you can be a character who's completely alien or divorced from your own personality. It's probably true of every writer - it's probably true of every filmmaker, every songwriter - that, ultimately, every character you create is a facet of yourself.

I do not believe that with a fictional character you can force yourself too far away from yourself. There has to be some of you in it.

I made the character as much of myself as I could.

I feel I'm all over my movies. I know my movies are all over me.

I think there's always pieces of yourself that bleed into your character. That's inevitable.

For the most part, there's so much of me in my characters.

Well, I think in my own work the subject matter usually deals with characters I know, aspects of myself, friends of mine - that sort of thing.

What I can say is that all my characters are searching for their souls, because they are my mirrors. I'm someone who is constantly trying to understand my place in the world, and literature is the best way that I found in order to see myself.

I'm actually beginning to believe that there is something in common among all of my characters. I'm not sure what it is exactly. But I guess that something is me.

It's true that all my novels have been versions of myself to some degree.

I'm trying to look into each character and try to realize her as someone who is also me.

A film reflects who you are as a building reflects the soul of its architect. I think what you feel and what you think and what you are is what the film is. It's not for me to talk about.

I always try to find some part of a character that exists in me and plug that in.

There's not a strong autobiographical strain in my fiction. A few bits of fact here and there.

However far fiction writers stray from their own lives and experiences - and I stray pretty far from mine - I think, ultimately, that we may be writing what we need to write in some way, albeit unconsciously.

I want things to be characters and not me. Why would I want to play me?