Sebastian Lelio Quotes

I love all the characters I write.

I mean, can I really create a full, three-dimensional character? I don't know anymore. I'm certainly going to try.

My first job is to write the characters as full and authentic people as well as I can.

To create characters, one must build background. And one of the tools we use is improvisation.

What I look for in any character, good or bad, is whether I can hear him speak. If I can imagine him that clearly, then I can write about him.

I try to begin with a strong grasp of my characters. Even if it's schematic, I need it clear in my head who these people are.

I like to take a character and develop it.

I'm about my characters.

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

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

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

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

For 'The Bestseller'... there was hardly any research, but I had to give each person a quirk and develop their stories so that it would relate to who they are.

The thing with videogame characters is that they tend to be really undercooked, and people don't take the time to really flesh them out. They don't treat them with the respect that a writer writing characters in any other medium would treat their character.

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

What makes characters real are details, and if you're crafting a person from scratch, you're probably not going to pay as much attention to a question like, 'Does this person bite their nails?'

You've got to leave the reader with more than just a name and a costume - they need to know who the character is, what they're like, what kind of attitude they have, what sort of role they play.

Don't start writing your novel until you know your characters very, very well. What they'd do if they saw somebody shoplifting. What they were like at school. What shoes they wear. Spend days - weeks, months - being them until they thicken up and start to breathe.

I tend to come up with people more than situations - most of my books start with a character.

Any author of fiction will tell you that characters don't need to be told what to do.

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

When you're building a character, or at least when I'm building a character, you start saying, 'How am I going to make people like him?'

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

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

I have a cheat-sheet for each one of my characters about their personality, the way they look, etc. So there is no possible way that I could have writer's block.