James Wan Quotes

Developing characters is a strange thing. In the beginning they are abstract and I wonder how to move on from there.

What I'm really trying to do is create unique characters.

When you create a character, you create it for yourself - you do whatever you want. It's your job to explore it in as many different avenues as you can in order to make it a fully wounded character.

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.

You really have to create everything in order to come away with a full human being on screen.

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

I don't tend to cast roles in my head because I spend so much time with these characters and the drawings that they're complete in themselves, you know what I mean?

So I work hard to present the human side of my characters while not neglecting the plot.

I try to create characters that I am fascinated by on some level or intrigued by or can't stand.

I like to take a character and develop it.

You always have to create the character from the ground up.

I have a huge emotional attachment to characters I've created, especially the viewpoint characters.

My characters surprise me constantly. My characters are like my friends - I can give them advice, but they don't have to take it. If your characters are real, then they surprise you, just like real people.

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.

I love creating new characters that are whatever they are.

You have to start from a place of trying to create a character.

Every character is challenging because, at the end of the day, you have to make something out of it.

A new character is like bringing a new human being into your life.

I honestly feel it is important for a director to get obsessed with the characters.

Characters are not created on paper or laptop alone.

When writing a novel a writer should create living people; people not characters. A character is a caricature.

I like movies about people and movies with characters; that's what I'm drawn to as a person who likes to create these characters within the story, but I like it all, really.

I think you have to love the characters that you write. I don't know how you could possibly write a TV show where you didn't love the characters.

I rarely return to characters. My characters, at least most of them, are much more a part of that superorganism that is the story than separate and independent creatures.

Every single film I've done, it's about the character.