Jeff Bennett Quotes

I don't ever really know where I get my characters from.

I think every character I've ever come up with has been based on someone or something I've known.

Characters are not created on paper or laptop alone.

There is no creative process to come up with a character of Dean Ambrose.

One of the ways I think I gain fodder for characters is by watching people.

I like to make definite choices and give my characters as many unique edges as possible.

To create characters, one must build background. And one of the tools we use is improvisation.

I find it very hard to sit down and create an idea or especially a new character on command. Usually my characters evolve by accident out of some story context.

I try to build a full personality for each of our cartoon characters - to make them personalities.

I really enjoy working in genre series, because you really have to create the characters.

A lot of times characters are combinations of people I come across in life. I people-watch a lot.

When people ask me about my dialogue, I say, 'Don't you hear people talking?' That's all I do. I hear a certain type of individual, I decide this is what he should be, whatever it is, and then I hear him. Well, I don't hear anybody that I can't make talk.

Developing characters is a strange thing. In the beginning they are abstract and I wonder how to move on from there.

You establish a technique on how to develop characters. Everyone does it their own way, and that's what makes it fun.

What I'm really trying to do is create unique characters.

I love creating new characters that are whatever they are.

Something people say about acting is that acting is listening. But I think that writing is listening, too. That you really have to listen to what are they saying and what they're communicating to you. And so, a lot of it is just getting stuff down.

I often draw from people in my own experience to base a character on, going back to my days with Mike Leigh.

I love all the characters I write.

A character takes shape in the act of writing. You start with something, and you add or subtract.

Characters I create are just mixtures of the people I know.

Writers often say that characters begin to write themselves, and I never used to believe that. I always thought that was complete hogwash.

It's usually easier for me to begin writing in a character's voice if that person is different from me in some significant way.

You spend so much time writing a character the way I did with Buddy Baker and then Green Arrow that you start to care about them. And you almost think of them as people, you know?

I love... What's gratifying to me is when you make/create a character and a human being, a person who lives entirely and who has their own existence, just merely from the words on a page.