Noelle Stevenson Quotes

I'll continue doing 'Jingle Belle' as long as I've got a good story for her.

There is no creative process to come up with a character of Dean Ambrose.

How I work is I work from of very character-driven place. And I trust the writers.

I just love to be able to actually build a character.

I like to make definite choices and give my characters as many unique edges as possible.

Interestingly that some of the characters did not turn out the way Jim and Allen had envisioned them.

Doing graphic novels is cool! It's fun! You get to write something, and then see it visually page by page, panel by panel, working with the artist, you get to see it fleshed out.

When you're crafting a character, it's good to have a lot of influences.

As I got farther and farther along in the series I did less and less preparation. I didn't use outlines or sketches. I just had a vague idea of what I wanted to tell and then the dialogue just came to me as I was inking the page.

I know as a child, I was really interested in becoming a manga artist, to create my own stories and illustrate them and present something that people would be interested in reading and looking at as well.

I really enjoy working in genre series, because you really have to create the characters.

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

I love creating new characters that are whatever they are.

Matthew Wiener on 'Mad Men' writes the entire series before they start shooting, and if you have that, then what you can do with character and story is not at all unlike what you can do in a novel.

I think 'Dark Blue' came to me while I was doing a project in London. I read it, and the character immediately popped out at me.

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

I get attracted to projects because of the script or the idea and the basic character.

I made Tony a person. For me, Tony was real. I made him become a human being, and that affected the animation and everything.

For as long as I can remember, I was always creating random characters.

I don't tend to picture my characters as actors and actresses.

To try to create a character without a whole lot of information can be taxing. At the same time, it's fun to just stay on your toes and let the next bit of dialogue come in, and turn the page as you read the next script and see what they have in store for you next.

For me, when working on a film or play or television show, everything for me starts with the screenplay and I am devoted to that and that is what I work from. Any research I do or any preparation I do on my own is all ultimately in service of that.

Well, I must tell you I write the scripts very close to the bone. So I'm writing episode seven now and couldn't tell you what happens in episode eight.

I mean one of the weird things about TV and one of the things that some actors don't like but I kind of dig is that you never know where you're headed, I mean you never know what the writer might think of next.

When you're drawing comics, you get very involved in how the story is going to develop and you spend more time daydreaming on that particular subject.