Khaled Hosseini Quotes

Novels without female characters were a lifeless desert.

Strong female characters - even if they don't necessarily make the same decisions that we might - make such great narrative material, especially when there's an equally strong male character in the mix.

There's just a deeper level of sophistication in the writing of female characters on TV.

I've been very lucky to have been chosen for and to have chosen roles that are good. Some are better than others and some projects are better than others, whether it's female or male characters. There's still more that we can do and there's still more stories to be told. I would love to see more female-driven projects in general.

When you encounter sophistication in the creation of a female character, you thank the writers and you claim it.

Every issue, the characters and I duke it out. They usually win.

Clever's not enough to hold me - I want characters who are more than devices to be moved about for Effect.

When you work with a good actor, there is this natural rapport and chemistry that develops over time. That chemistry helps your characters come alive and makes the story of the film that much more convincing.

I do just love the characters in sci-fi, but not necessarily the fact that it's sci-fi.

Let your characters talk to each other and do things. Spend time with them - they'll tell you who they are and what they're up to.

Women perform great in the box office. Audiences want to see lead female characters.

Are you a minor character in my tale, or am I a lesser figure in yours?

My books are based on emotions, feelings, relationships. In these areas women are experts, so it's not strange that the main characters of my novels are females.

The characters are telling you the story. I'm not telling you the story, they're going to do it. If I do it right, you will get the whole story.

His soul is in his stories. I once asked him who inspired him to create his characters, and his answer was no one. That all his characters were himself.

My whole theory about why I couldn’t find any creators who realized they were leaving out female characters is because they were raised on the same ratio. I just heard someone the other day call it either ‘smurfing’ a movie, which is when there’s one female character, or ‘minioning’ a movie, which is when there’s no female characters.

The challenge was the opportunity. When I read the first draft of Steve Kloves' fabulous adaptation - I hadn't read [Michael] Chabon's book at that time - what I was immediately captivated by was this group of characters that were at once so engaging and so messed up.

I usually start with something that has some energy, like a compressed character or a situation that's wound up like a spring. Then all I have to do is let it go, let its energy carry the story. And that may not turn out to be the beginning of the book.

I would never wish to say that I've finally waved goodbye to any character, it's just that the emphasis tends to shift.

I try to keep my characters raising more questions than giving answers. I don't want to leave too much on the table. I want you to have your connection and your secret understanding of the character.

I wasn't into fairytales when I was little. I was of the generation of the earlier Disney films where many of the female characters, with the exception of the Maleficent's, were not little girls that I admired... the little princesses. They weren't characters that I identified with. I think that's very different now for my girls and more recent films.

I try to be true to the characters that I've created and sometimes I disagree with them, but their opinions about the story and the characters really matter to me.

I learned a lesson that I keep learning over and over, and that is that the most fun is to watch our main characters interact with each other. The most fun comes from their tight interaction.

I would like Martin Scorsese to be interested in a female character once in a while, but I don’t know if I’ll live that long.

The number 1 thing that I don't want to see in a story is when characters exist simply to be proven wrong.