Chris Lilley Quotes

Sometimes a character is really based on research that you do. Other times it's just based on your imagination or perhaps your conversation with the director. Or sometimes all of the above. It depends on the movie and character.

I never base characters on real people. There are people who do that but I really don't know how to do it.

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

I don't base any character on a real person, and really don't do composites either. I make them up.

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

The point of my explanation is I'm very subjective when it comes to describing my characters: they are all a little bit a part of me from the outside in or the inside out - but to put your mind at ease, I built Paul Snider from the outside in.

My characters are all made up of pieces of people I have known, their backstories pieces of mine.

I don't really base any of my characters on specific people that I know, although my characters are informed by the kind of people who live in my community.

All my main characters have got bits of me, bits of my family, bits of my friends.

All of my characters tend to be montages of different people I've met: little bits and pieces of their personalities put together.

I see people sometimes who remind me of my narrators.

That's the way I will write characters, put a fair amount of myself in them, and then everyone else who was like that person, I will pick and choose.

I think about the characters I've created, and then I sit down and start typing and see what they will do. There's a lot of subconscious thought that goes on. It amazes me to find out, a few chapters later, why I put someone in a certain place when I did.

Creating characters is like throwing together ingredients for a recipe. I take characteristics I like and dislike in real people I know, or know of, and use them to embellish and define characters.

Very few of my characters are based on people I've known. It is too constricting.

As a writer, I always think about who my prototype actors are, in my brain. It's helpful, as a writer, to think about that.

When I sit down to write, I know everything I need to know... I start writing, and within 30 seconds or 60 seconds, I'm watching a movie. I'm not making this stuff up; the characters are acting it out, and I'm just writing it down.

Creating characters is just another way to express a type and put that type to use.

Whenever I approach any character, I try to find examples to draw upon.

My characters are based on people I know, but not in a direct way.

There are fragments of me in all my characters.

I'm not a method actor. I can't even explain so much what I do.

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

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

I'm the sort of actor who likes to talk about what we're going to do.