Salma Hayek Quotes

I like to write first-person because I like to become the character I'm writing.

I like all my characters in one way or another, or at least I understand them.

The first thing, when I read the script, is that I need to care about what happens and feel compelled by the story and engaged by the characters. It needs to resonate with me, even if what the characters are going through is not something that I have experienced in my life. I have to feel like it has some sort of meaning to me.

Part of the success of the show is that the audience sees themselves in the characters, becomes the characters. The more they inhabit the characters, the more they see.

I like when you watch a film and you feel like you're a part of somebody's life for an hour and a half.

If I don't fall in love with my characters, I cannot shoot.

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.

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

I want to have compassion for my characters - I feel like I am the characters when I'm writing them.

Fiction is all about vicarious experiences and getting into other people's heads in a way that no other art form lets you.

I've always felt, even with sketches, that if you don't care about these people, then it doesn't matter.

My characters are always utterly sympathetic to me, if that makes any sense.

I always find something in all the characters I play. I fall in love with them a little bit.

To get a connection to your characters, you have to put them in a situation that you can feel yourself.

When you're writing fiction, you're in every character 'cause you can't help it.

I identify in some measure with each of my characters.

To tell you the truth, while I do enjoy the grand-scale elements, it's the personal scenes, the character moments that I really find satisfying. That's where I get to delve into the characters' minds and hearts. That's where they become living, breathing beings to me.

I think it's touching that the fans feel so close to the characters that they feel personally hurt. I've felt that way in plenty of TV shows - 'Game of Thrones,' 'Mad Men.' How could they do that to that character? That's drama.

I think one of the hardest things about doing a book in the first person is that to a certain extent each day, when you begin to do your work, you're climbing into somebody else's skin.

There's a kind of acting that goes on in my head when I'm writing a character where I put myself in their place.

The best books come from someplace deep inside.... Become emotionally involved. If you don't care about your characters, your readers won't either.

I think it's necessary to identify with anything - with any character you play, there's got to be something in common, so you can link up to that person, even if it's like one tiny thing. But it's equally fun to play somebody completely different, and trying to find what that thing is to make it.

If we get caught up in a story, it's because we've started to care about the characters, and that can only happen if we've moved beneath the surface.

Sometimes I can't get out of the character because the story is very intense.

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