Rajkummar Rao Quotes

In the writers' room, when we talk about each episode, we first talk about the character journey of the episode.

I try mainly to just focus on character and what my character's point of view is, with each person, and try to figure out story.

For me, plot always comes out of character, so I had to be sure of my characters.

Plot and character are virtually the same thing.

Whether you're writing a horror show or a James Bond film, I think what bubbles beneath is interesting characterization. The colors that emerge through storytelling is what a dramatist does. There's always got to be something bubbling underneath that will erupt at some point.

My books are character-driven. They're not driven by the story.

As a novelist, I'm endlessly fascinated by human behavior and interactions.

If you know exactly what your character knows, it's a drama.

I tend to come up with people more than situations - most of my books start with a character.

I definitely feel that plot flows from character. I don't believe that you can construct a plot and insert people into it.

I think it is important that you care about the characters, and you are not just waiting for the next action sequence but have a vested interested in what happens to them.

Characters are incredibly important, but I tend to build them around the plot during the outline stage. However, once I'm writing the manuscript, the characters I'm writing dictate how the plot unfolds.

I try to trace the connection between the characters and that way a story or plot emerges.

It's really about, oh come on, this guy wouldn't say that or he wouldn't do that, you know, it's about the characters, about the story, about the situation.

Any author of fiction will tell you that characters don't need to be told what to do.

I don't think people are ever going to a place where they're like, 'I'm over stories about character and love.'

I like dialogue in novels. I wanted to avoid laying history on with a trowel - appearing to be lecturing, as opposed to the characters lecturing their children or students. Dialogue can humanise the story and make it go down somewhat more smoothly.

I think action should be revealed through character, so if you have a plot problem, it's probably a character problem.

I always devise a background so that it makes what your character goes through logical and keeps up the continuity.

If the right idea comes up, and it feels true to talk about somebody being in a truck, and that's the only way to tell the story, then I will reluctantly tell the story that way.

My stories are character driven.

Coming from TV and film, rule number one is that you always service the main character first and foremost. If that's not working, you've got nothing.

It's necessary to track characters all the way through an opera. If you're dealing with more than one or two characters, it's very easy to forget that the others have lives of their own that feed into the story.

I just reached the point where plot-driven novels don't hold my interest because I don't care about the fate of characters anymore - whether Emily marries Tom or not, that kind of thing.

To me, it all comes down to things being character-driven. It's hard for me to look beyond that. CG and all this cool stuff - so be it. But to me, it pretty much begins and ends with character-driven plots rather than technologically-driven plots.