Rajkummar Rao Quotes

I don't think people are ever going to a place where they're like, 'I'm over stories about character and love.'

I always try to make my characters people, and yet I always want to entertain.

I suppose it's possible that a writer would have feeling for his characters, but I can't see how, because writing is such a meticulous, intricate, technical business. I wish I could say that I love my characters and that frequently they take over the book and run away with the plot and so on. But they don't exist.

I love all the characters I write.

I love... What's gratifying to me is when you make/create a character and a human being, a person who lives entirely and who has their own existence, just merely from the words on a page.

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 love making characters real and believable, through my own experience and choices.

As a novelist, I tend to know significantly more about my characters than I do about my friends.

I think writers have become hypnotised by the number of jokes on the page at the expense of character.

I always talk about my characters like they're real people.

I love to evoke the bones and meat and thoughts of characters.

First and foremost, I consider myself a storyteller. And I'm endlessly fascinated with people, with what they do and why... and how they feel about it. Which means I'm interested in romance fiction. I was drawn to it, as both a reader and a writer, at the very beginning of my career. It's my kind of storytelling.

You don't go around thinking about how characters in a movie, in the stories you make up, relate to people in general.

A new character is like bringing a new human being into your life.

It can be a fictional character and yet relatable... It always depends on the content of the film and what you are doing.

As writers, we are sketching people all the time when we write fiction.

Television is about identifying with the characters.

I love characters songs and I love to fit into a story. I love singing through a character's journey.

One of the things that separates a good genre movie from a bad genre movie, I always think, ironically, is when you care about the people. The dime a dozen ones are where you don't have any awareness of the character.

To me, characters are at the heart of great literature.

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?

The writer of stories or of novels settles on men and imitates them; he exhausts the possibilities of his characters.

I love doing theater so much - being in front of an audience and seeing how a character grows and develops with every performance.

I just love to be able to actually build a character.

My books are character-driven. They're not driven by the story.