Will Poulter Quotes

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

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.

The characters are the result of two things-first, we elaborate them into fairly well-defined people through their dialogue, then they happen all over again, when the actor interprets them.

During the inception of 'Zindagi Gulzar Hai,' we studied the characters and the script in depth so that we could imbibe the essence of it in our performance.

Providing accurate portrayals of characters is something I want to pay ample attention to.

The writer of stories or of novels settles on men and imitates them; he exhausts the possibilities of his characters.

I'm a character and relationship guy, and even with the 'Saw' films, it's special-effects people's jobs to create these scary things. It's not my job. My job is to bring some sense of humanity to the character, no matter how evil he may be. The script is going to take me there.

I always say I write my own novels and the characters don't take control of me, but in fact, I look at the characters in the early stages and I think, 'What is he or she like,' and they slowly come together and they become the person they are.

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

When I approach any script, I always try to find what I would relate to most in it.

Once you start writing a character visually, you're in trouble.

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

I do not choose characters because I think, 'Wow, that woman is so strong.' I chose these characters with utmost conviction because I think they were realistic enough to exist, and I really liked the scripts.

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.

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

I love making characters real and believable, through my own experience and choices.

Knowing that Gene and Morgan were playing those roles made it much easier to put the script together-we knew who we were writing it for. It took some mystery away.

What I look for in any character, good or bad, is whether I can hear him speak. If I can imagine him that clearly, then I can write about him.

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

Most good fiction also has a character the writer seems to know more deeply than anyone can actually be known in life, but a few unusual writers can make something great without that.

My background is really being a writer's actor - that seems to be the way I work best, bringing out the best of writing. There's a whole range of acting skills, and some people can be astonishing with very poor material. That's not me; my skill is essentially unlocking the writing.

I always try to write about believable people.

All characters come from people I know, but after the initial inspiration, I tend to modify the characters so they fit with the story.

I read the script and try not to bring anything personal into it. I make notes, talk to the director and we decide what kinds of shades should be in the character.

I always talk about my characters like they're real people.