J. K. Rowling Quotes

I don't think about the stories so much, as the characters themselves. They live on, and they are almost as real as I am.

Also, as an author, character has always been what I'm most interested in - much more so than plot or setting, although those are good things too.

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

'Longmire' is more of a show about the characters, and you couldn't pay a bigger compliment than to want to know more about my character, or the characters on the show.

I love magic and playing with magic systems. But to me, good fantasy like all fiction comes down to good character and plotting.

A lot of people have asked me about some of the characters that appear in 'Clockwork Prince,' like Aloysius Starkweather and Woolsey Scott. A lot of people like Woolsey Scott, which I was really happy about because he's very fun to write.

There's no subtext in 'Harry Potter,' really; it's all magic - anything can happen. Why do I say this? Because it's a magic spell. It's quite nice in a way. There is a real freedom to it. Doesn't say much for acting, does it?

Normally when I'm sent a script I'll read it through to see how it hangs as a story and then I'll go back and read it through again and look at the character.

I think I would struggle with any job if it was purely about effects. Even as a viewer, those aren't the kind of things that interest me. I think ultimately you have to be connected to characters and their relationships. Otherwise, it's not drama to me.

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

I spend a lot of time with my characters.

If a movie has more characters than an audience can keep track of, the audience will get confused and lose interest in the story.

One of the things I really like about Ford's films is how there is always a focus on the way characters live, and not just the male heroes.

It's exciting that you've got an entire season to experience 24 hours of highly dramatically charged human experience. It allows for the close inspection of minutiae in behaviour.

These people are real to me, and situations keep coming up where their emergence feels natural. It's like meeting old friends. I hope readers feel the same way.

The bedrock of 'Being Human' has to be characters. I would hope that even if suddenly we had a huge budget per episode, the foundation of the show, and the thing that actually makes it what it is, is character.

My stories are character driven.

I'm always writing about character first. Plot, such as it is, comes from the characters.

A lot of entertainment, and especially in a half-hour format, can be all jokes, all the time. And some of those jokes can be really, really funny, but what I respond to, as a viewers, is identification or caring about the characters.

The core to what makes Fincher really interesting - all the technique and all that, that is not in the center even if it's a big big part - what is in the center is the characters, and he really is interested in that.

Smart writers really take their time in investing in backstories and characters. As a viewer, you have to invest in them and love them before you can chip away at what's going on more on a deeper level with secondary characters.

In 'Poster Boys,' every character is well defined.

Great novels have great characterization no matter what. But multiple points of view let me examine characters from entirely different perspectives, allowing me to learn more about everyone in the process.

I just love that feeling of being in another world, of creating characters and watching where they go.

Character is plot, plot is character.