Karen Traviss Quotes

I've often said the reader knows every bit as much about Thorne as I do. When I created him for 'Sleepyhead,' I was determined he should be a character who would develop, book by book, change and grow as we all do, and who - crucially - would be unpredictable.

When I develop a character, I usually start by creating a backstory with whatever information I have access to.

For me, one thing I love is having an arc for a character.

I build my characters from the day they're born to the first page of the script.

Kratos began life as an anti-hero at a time when anti-heroes in games were scarce.

Some of the great characters that I've played had to be transformational.

And because performing for a game involves real acting. The way they create a game is very similar now to how they create a film. I've always wanted to stretch my acting skills, and the timing being what it is, I couldn't say no.

I'm trying to make all the characters change and grow, or regress.

In TV, you may think your character's one thing for two episodes, and then the third episode it could be something different.

I think often times on Joss Whedon's shows he can make you hate a character for a period and then love the character. He does it effortlessly.

Well, I don't think characters change. I think they become more revealed. I don't think you really can change a character on a show.

I always think change is important in a character. The most dynamic choices that you can make for a character are always the best ones.

Novels demand a certain complexity of narrative and scope, so it's necessary for the characters to change.

In the past, TSR and now Wizards of the Coast have asked me to do game stats for my characters, and I'm never comfortable doing that. It's all relative after all.

I'm not the expert on the great gameplay. I come in for the character design, monsters, atmosphere. I'm not the technician.

If you change a character too much, the audience falls out of love with the character, but characters need to evolve and grow over the years.

Animation had been done before, but stories were never told.

Usually when you have a sequel, the character always stays the same and that's true basically of 'Rocky III,' 'IV' and 'V.' He didn't really change.

I like a character that is still alive and is necessarily thinking, and either grows or diminishes or whatever.

I really enjoy the constant change in TV. It's fun to play a character that is, hopefully, growing and developing over a long period of time.

I care more, and I think readers do also, for characters in a state of transformation.

The Duffers like that; they like watching their characters grow.

The goal for us to do with Squanchtendo is to approach all of our projects with a goal of adding interesting characters, personality, and a story to interact with in-game. Every game we make will be built from the ground up for whatever hardware it will launch on.

There are very few VR games with really strong characters and voice acting.

We did so much work developing the character of Kratos, why would we throw all that out? We're sort of treating the first seven games like chapter one of this character's life.