Brina Palencia Quotes

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.

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

Character development is what I value most as a reader of fiction. If an author can manage to create the sort of characters who feel fully real, who I find myself worrying about while I'm walking through the grocery store aisles a week later, that to me is as close to perfection as it gets.

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

I believe people leave a theater bonding with characters. Story is the vessel that carries character. Comedy is a very important component of expressing character.

I love all my characters. I love their weaknesses and flaws. I feel like they're all my best friends and I adore being with them.

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

I like my characters to be ones I think about long after I've finished reading the script.

I think all television has to be about relationships and I don't think horror for the sake of it can work unless you're able to ground it in some kind of relationship.

I think you have to love the characters that you write. I don't know how you could possibly write a TV show where you didn't love the characters.

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.

It's really important to stay engaged and involved in the character.

I am most proud of the development of the characters as personalities that game players could relate to and care about.

A lot of entertainment, and especially in a half-hour format, can be all jokes, all the time. And some of those jokes can be really, really funny, but what I respond to, as a viewers, is identification or caring about the characters.

The real trick to these movies and making the big action sequences work - and I've forgotten this sometimes and screwed it up - the characters really have to be humanized. Because you can have the greatest special effects in the world, but if you don't care about the people in those effects, there's no impact.

I'm focused on finding characters I connect to.

The characters don't all have to be likable, and they don't all have to be hateable. As long as it's interesting and you connect to them and they resonate with you and you want to find out what happens and it feels authentic, then we have something.

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.'

You have to be involved and relate to the characters in order to make a film that is true emotionally.

The first thing I do when I read a part is see if I can identify emotionally with a character. If I make that connection, everything else is just working on knowing their life circumstances and manifesting those through practice and research.

As a writer, you have to realize that people want to like the characters, so you have to be careful to keep them involved.

It always helps me connect with characters, to think about what music they respond to.

Quite often my narrator or protagonist may be a man, but I'm not sure he's the more interesting character, or if the more complex character isn't the woman.

You have to find ways to relate to the characters you get to play. Put it in terms and in a context that speaks to you.

There's no rule that we have to like the characters movies are about.