Anushka Sharma Quotes

I try to ground most of my characters in reality somehow. That's kind of what I bring to the table.

My characters are not plastic.

My task is to find the authenticity in the character. I tend to go with the script and tell that story.

What makes characters real are details, and if you're crafting a person from scratch, you're probably not going to pay as much attention to a question like, 'Does this person bite their nails?'

My first job is to write the characters as full and authentic people as well as I can.

A lot of times in movies, especially in sequels, the characters become caricatures and just sort of improv machines and joke machines, rather than people you can actually connect to.

It's your job to come up with compelling characters who speak to an individual authenticity. If I'm not interested in the characters, I can't go on. I have to be fascinated by them.

I always try to write about believable people.

Your structure and format may not be perfect, and you may not have picked the perfect franchise, but if I pick up a script, and the characters are real, whole, complicated and come from a place of somebody who really is feeling it, that's what people remember.

Normally you read a screenplay - and I read a lot of them - and the characters don't feel like people. They feel like plot devices or cliches or stereotypes.

My stories are pretty simplistic, but the characters are always complex and always right, and that comes from the script and my research and reverse-engineering what I find in the real world.

I think the best way to sell a made-up character is to plant his feet into the real earth.

Each character, be it the antagonist or the protagonist, brings with himself his own personality... and I have tried to stay true to each one of them; each is enjoyable in their own way!

Usually most characters I play are quite realistic.

We set ourselves a limit and cut characters which weren't so vital.

And I have the support of the writers: I have a great relationship with the creative team, and they have a good hold of my character and my personality, and they come up with some great stuff, and I'm forever trying to change it up, keep it fresh.

It's hard to know whether certain characters come to life or not, they either come to have their own life or they don't. I've written many things in which the characters just remain inert.

I remember my dad working with me on breaking down my script and writing out a back story for my character and all that stuff.

The way of creating believable characters is not by conforming to a set of PC rules.

It's very, very important to me, no matter who the person is, to play that person with the utmost degree of truth that I'm able to bring. But playing a character like Jack Sparrow or Willy Wonka, that requires nothing but a degree of responsibility to the intent of the story - responsibility to the film-maker to deliver the goods.

I treat all my characters as if they were real, and I am scrupulous about the details of their lives.

I didn't want to be seen as just a guy on a list. I'm interested in good scripts, scripts that are about something, scripts that move your acting along.

I've always wanted my characters to have more dimension and realistic cores than the ingenue material often provides. It's been a challenge.

When a script moves me, I find that I immediately understand a character. Of course not completely, but I do understand.

All the great writers root their characters in true human behaviour.