Stephen King Quotes

If you don't invest in the characters, you don't care if they get killed. It's more fun if you know them.

I try to create characters people want to sit with, even if nothing is happening.

If you care about [the characters] as if they were real, that always helps.

I feel that in horror movies, especially, if you don't care about the characters, you've lost the audience. No one cares, and it becomes a process of watching people get killed.

There are characters that become more popular as we fall in love with them.

I do feel more towards certain characters who have depth and intelligence.

You need the audience to become invested in the characters and in order to become invested, they need to identify with the characters... and that's why the characters need to be real.

It's hard to be scared if you don't feel for a character, because you don't care if they die or live.

I'm never interested in movies where you don't care about the people you're watching, and that's my biggest quibble about horror, that kids have gotten stupider and stupider.

When the characters are believable and endearing, action scenes, for example, make an impact. Otherwise, the audience gets no kick out of action. The biggest strength of 'MCA' is that its characters are real.

A lot of horror movies just look at how they can scare people, and no matter which character dies, you don't ever really feel enough to actually care.

It doesn't matter whether characters are real people or not; if they're not vivid on the page, then the reader doesn't care about them that much, and, if the reader doesn't care about them that much, then they don't care what happens to them.

Comedy always works better when you're tracking the story and you care about the characters. That's why there's a lot of movies where there's not a ton of jokes, but you get huge laughs because there's a moment of relief.

You couple that with how I looked when I was younger, and growing up... The voice is not quite breaking. It's awful. No, I don't enjoy that at all. But that's one of the things people love and find so endearing about the Harry Potter series, and why they've lasted so long. Because people have grown up with us, and they care about the characters. They're not just some characters in the film, they're people you can relate to, and you care about, and you grew up with, and when they die in this film, people feel it!

I'm fond of all my characters so every time one doesn't make the cut I'm a little disappointed although I understand it.

If you cared enough about your characters, what happened to them was interesting... it's important to care about them, about who they are and what they do...I don't really care whose side they are on, and they can be monstrous on the outside or, worse, on the inside, but you still have to want to spend time with them.

Character is half the reason we read. We're excited because of the plot, but we care because of the characters.

I think if you create well balanced characters that are well represented, boys and girls relate to them whether they're boys or girls.

I believe in characters that can be tangible, and that you can actually relate to.

In a story, for example, you'll start off with a character who is a little bit of a cartoon. That's not satisfying and you start revising. And as you revise you always are making it better by being specific and by observing more closely, which actually is really the same as saying you love your characters. The close observation equals love of them.

The best books come from someplace deep inside.... Become emotionally involved. If you don't care about your characters, your readers won't either.

When you have a set of characters, you have to fall in love with them and care about them as each individual character.

I've always believed in populating my films with characters who we like, who we have some warmth for, who have warmth for each other, who we would like to hang out with, who we emulate in one way or another. It's not that they all get along, or that there aren't bad people or people we make fun of. But at the core, there's a kind of sweetness.

I enjoy bringing humanity to complex characters.

I'm sure there's pieces of me in all the characters I play.