Dean Ambrose Quotes

I try to build a full personality for each of our cartoon characters - to make them personalities.

What I'm really trying to do is create unique characters.

To create characters, one must build background. And one of the tools we use is improvisation.

I really enjoy working in genre series, because you really have to create the characters.

I like to take a character and develop it.

You always have to create the character from the ground up.

Developing characters is a strange thing. In the beginning they are abstract and I wonder how to move on from there.

I have a huge emotional attachment to characters I've created, especially the viewpoint characters.

I love creating new characters that are whatever they are.

You have to start from a place of trying to create a character.

I admit I do develop characters from little parts of things I've seen others do.

I'm interested in characters. I love them, and I love to write them.

I don't ever really know where I get my characters from.

I mean, can I really create a full, three-dimensional character? I don't know anymore. I'm certainly going to try.

The thing with videogame characters is that they tend to be really undercooked, and people don't take the time to really flesh them out. They don't treat them with the respect that a writer writing characters in any other medium would treat their character.

Sometimes a character is really based on research that you do. Other times it's just based on your imagination or perhaps your conversation with the director. Or sometimes all of the above. It depends on the movie and character.

I like to make definite choices and give my characters as many unique edges as possible.

I always say I write my own novels and the characters don't take control of me, but in fact, I look at the characters in the early stages and I think, 'What is he or she like,' and they slowly come together and they become the person they are.

In 'Me Before You,' the two characters popped into my head fully formed, which is really strange and unusual. Other books, I sit on them for two or three months. I have a whole routine: I buy a nice book; I hand-write all their characteristics. I put them through little tests just to see how they would react to things.

Creating characters is like throwing together ingredients for a recipe. I take characteristics I like and dislike in real people I know, or know of, and use them to embellish and define characters.

I don't base any character on a real person, and really don't do composites either. I make them up.

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

Creating characters is just another way to express a type and put that type to use.

I'm about my characters.

You establish a technique on how to develop characters. Everyone does it their own way, and that's what makes it fun.