John Kricfalusi Quotes

That's the way it happens - some characters you set out to use, some are happy accidents. As long as it works, it doesn't really matter how you got them.

I never have particular actors planned when I'm in the process of writing.

I do a lot better if I sit around and think about a character for a couple of months.

I work out the other bits, too, but I need to know what I look like, very early on. And then it's like a template; I'll fill that person out. If I get that out of the way, then I'm all right.

I admit I do develop characters from little parts of things I've seen others do.

Characters are not created on paper or laptop alone.

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

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

I spent some time, six months or so, ruminating about the characters before I sat down to write 'Faith'.

My writing process often begins with a question. I write down ideas and let them stew for about a year. Then, when I sit down to write, I make a list of characters and try to see how they fit.

If you take a few days to write an outline, you're just making up scenes that you think will work, that you think will be interesting. But as you write it, other ideas occur - better ideas that have to do with what you're writing.

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?

One of the greatest things about 'Continuum' is how great the writing is; our writing room is one of the most talented ones I've ever had. It really helps me as far as character development because they paint a very descriptive picture of who the characters are while still letting us have freedom to put in our own ideas.

Whichever character I'm using and wherever I am in my mind dictates what kind of story I'm going to tell.

I don't sit down in front of my computer screen and think, 'Right. Today I shall begin a story set in this or that period of history.' I just get ideas from the world around me.

I'll often dream about characters before I start writing their stories.

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'm always determined that as a novelist I'm going to go out there and research my characters very thoroughly before I start writing.

I tend to have an endless number of ideas for writing projects. I don't necessarily say that as a good thing. Maybe it's a good thing, but I have ideas for all kinds of projects: contemporary novels, graphic novels, anything that happens to go through my mind.

I start with an idea that is no more than a paragraph long, and expand it slowly into an outline. But I'm always surprised by the directions things take when I actually start writing.

I think the idea of creating a character from scratch, one that has not been done in a novel or an existing story, is immensely exciting, terrifying and ultimately rewarding.

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

I really don't know what I am going to do in terms of what a book is going to be about until I actually start writing it!

When I create characters, I create a world to inhabit and they begin to feel very real for me. I don't belong in a psych ward, I don't think, but they become very real, like my own family, and then I have to say goodbye, close the door, and work on other things.

Whenever I have had to write fiction, I've always had to invent a character who roughly has my background.