Vera Farmiga Quotes

I don't judge my characters, and that's my job not to judge them.

Every work coming from the creator is about getting the demons out, and each character in those stories had a different personal crisis to get through.

Some writers, notably Anton Chekov, argue that all characters must be admirable, because once we've looked at anyone deeply enough and understood their motivation we must identify with them rather than judge them.

Don't write about a character. Become that character, and then write your story.

I'm hopefully making the reader feel a lot about the characters and then about their own life.

The fundamentals for me are character and conflict. I put character first because readers will be indifferent to conflict if they are indifferent to the character who is experiencing it.

I don't know who will overcome losses, some losses aren't meant to be overcome, but all losses make for good stories and good character development and all the jazz that makes a show compelling and watchable.

My work is to know the characters intimately and to tell their story.

You never want to judge your character.

I write about relationships and I try to create real-life characters.

It is only with distance that we are able to turn our powers of observation on ourselves, thus fashioning stories in which we are characters.

I think once everything is in place, once you've kind of wrapped your head around the story and the character, it's very liberating and you can start doing things like you would do.

Like anything, you've gotta find the humanity in the characters.

I really become the characters when I'm writing them. I'll become one or two of them more than others, I'm consistent that way.

I think writer is a word without gender, and a good writer observes, absorbs, hopefully empathizes then translates that into character and story. You don’t have to do or be or have experienced, traveled to, but you have to imagine all of that, very well–and believe it completely during the bubble of the work.

I'm probably more character-driven than plot-driven. It's rare for me to attach myself to an idea for a 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.

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 think the good stories are those where the character decides to break away and do something different.

If the point of life is the same as the point of a story, the point of life is character transformation.

You kind of worry for the characters in a way that you don't normally in sci-fi, because sci-fi tends to be about the ideas, and this is about people.

Doctor Strange is an origin story so there's a certain room for me improving as well as the character improving.

As you become acquainted with a character you are creating, you add parts of yourself that are pertinent to that character.

My favorite stories are human, so I'm always looking for...

People at a point of conflict are always the most interesting stories to tell.