Dav Pilkey Quotes

I often draw from people in my own experience to base a character on, going back to my days with Mike Leigh.

There are bits of me in all my characters.

The characters in my stories, whether historical or fictional, usually prove to be a compilation of influences taken from differing sources, but never drawn from one model.

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

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.

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.

There's some of me in all my characters.

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

I see people sometimes who remind me of my narrators.

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

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.

When I see things in the world that leap out at me, I want to make use of them in fiction. Maybe every writer does that. It just depends on what you claim or appropriate as yours.

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

When you create a show, and create characters, these people are like children to you.

There are always certain things that you tap into, your own personal experiences, and I try to base my characters on someone I know or someone I've seen.

Usually when I write a script, I have in mind some real people that I'm writing about, who don't always act in the film afterward.

A lot of times characters are combinations of people I come across in life. I people-watch a lot.

Most of my characters are an amalgamation of people that I've met, my family, or myself. Being a writer, you can draw only from what you know. I am lucky to have really rich and interesting people in my family for, you know, interesting family nights and great characters.

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

There are fragments of me in all my characters.

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

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