Shawn Levy Quotes

You have to present characters an audience can relate to.

I'm focused on finding characters I connect to.

If there is any secret to my success, I think it's that my characters are very real to me. I feel everything they feel, and therefore I think my readers care about them.

In terms of the characters I think are really fun to play, a lot of times it's someone in my head saying 'I know that woman.'

When I approach any script, I always try to find what I would relate to most in it.

Readers embrace all kinds of characters as long as they are written with emotional truth.

When I'm creating characters, I just want to create characters that I can relate to, and be as honest about them as people as I can be. That's what I want to see when I go to the movies.

In my acting, I have tried to do this - to present to audiences a living creature in whom they can recognise themselves or someone they know.

But in film you always watch situations or stories that you really have no relation to. A lot of times just because there's no personal connection doesn't mean you can't connect with the film or the characters in the film.

You need the audience to become invested in the characters and in order to become invested, they need to identify with the characters... and that's why the characters need to be real.

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

In terms of the parallels, I've never related less to a character than Riggan.

You can't make the audience fall in love with a character you don't like.

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

I think, ultimately, if you create characters that people like and can relate to, your characters are grounded on a human level even if your cars are not.

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

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

It's very hard to connect with a character when you haven't gotten a sense of who they are.

If the reader doesn't care or relate to the characters, all that visual spectacle is pretty but feels empty.

Audiences need to engage with characters.

If people don't connect to Eric Carter's struggles, I'm sure they'll find a character in this series to connect to. That's ultimately what it's about for me.

It's always exciting to create a character that people can relate to, where people are like, 'Oh, I know this dude,' but maybe you've never actually seen this type of character on TV.

As a writer, every time I create a character, I try to go for something to captivate the audience in some way. It's also an extension of how the audience would like to see themselves.

I always want the audience to identify with my character in some way. I mean, sometimes you'll get characters that aren't very identifiable. Sometimes you can't relate to your character at all.

The stories I love the most are where the author has a lot of empathy for everyone. The author loves their characters and takes their situations really seriously, and you feel like you're just dropped into a different world.