Lilith Saintcrow Quotes

It's hard to leave behind scenes and characters I am in love with.

It's always hard to wrap up a series. The longer I spend with the characters, the more they become like friends.

Certain characters get to me and stay with me for a while.

I get pretty attached to the majority of the characters I play. I can't help myself.

You don't get as invested in someone in 90 minutes as you do over 13 hours of television show.

People like the comedy more when they care about the characters.

I get very involved in my characters. Sometimes I have a very hard time separating my characters from my life.

You spend so much time writing a character the way I did with Buddy Baker and then Green Arrow that you start to care about them. And you almost think of them as people, you know?

There are characters that become more popular as we fall in love with them.

I'm always sorry to finish a book, to let go of characters I love, people I've struggled to understand for years, people who evolve before me.

I really loved making 'A Walk to Remember', so I'm not afraid of making smaller films. But for me, I just need to connect to the characters.

You get involved with a character after spending a long time waiting, and this demands a lot of energy and concentration.

In 'The Prophet' I really fell in love with those characters, there was an emotional connection there that I don't think I've had in a while. It made me think it would be nice to stick with the characters for a little bit and see what happens.

Once I start writing about somebody, I become very protective of them.

I couldn't give 'Vikings' away - I mean, I love these people. And I'm not sure anyone else writing it would necessarily have the same feeling towards the characters that I do.

There's something that's very human about 'Warriorv that brings you out. You're watching the movie and, yeah, there's fighting - there's a tournament at the end of the movie - but it takes a long time to get to know these people.

It's hard to be scared if you don't feel for a character, because you don't care if they die or live.

The most emotionally connected I've ever been to a character is Natsuki in 'Summer Wars.'

Once I fall in love, finishing a story leaves a hole in my heart. The characters become your friends.

I think people are getting into these 'Empire' songs because of the emotional investment they have in the characters. You kind of feel like you know the songs already because you just watched them play out in front of you with these characters.

It's difficult to just let go of a character. Especially after you've been preparing and researching for weeks.

Sometimes I become attached to a character because I've gotten to explore him for so long, like in the case of Ben, but sometimes I fall in love with a throwaway character who exists for only one scene in a video game like The Drunken Villager in 'Diablo III' or Sandal in 'Dragon Age.'

Sometimes I want to withhold judgement on whether something is good or bad, but I do feel like identifying with TV characters - connecting to them emotionally more than you connect to literal, physical people in your life - causes problems. They just don't have the same existence or boundaries as you do. They resemble us, but they are not us.

You couple that with how I looked when I was younger, and growing up... The voice is not quite breaking. It's awful. No, I don't enjoy that at all. But that's one of the things people love and find so endearing about the Harry Potter series, and why they've lasted so long. Because people have grown up with us, and they care about the characters. They're not just some characters in the film, they're people you can relate to, and you care about, and you grew up with, and when they die in this film, people feel it!

If you have never wept bitter tears because a wonderful story has come to an end and you must take your leave of the characters with whom you have shared so many adventures, whom you have loved and admired, for whom you have hoped and feared, and without whose company life seems empty and meaningless. If such things have not been part of your own experience, you probably won't understand what Bastian did next.