Harvey Keitel Quotes

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

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

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

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

Every time when I start preparing my character for a movie, I always try to make up and create my own background story for the role in order to fill it with life.

There is no creative process to come up with a character of Dean Ambrose.

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

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.

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

I try to distinguish my characters from each other.

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

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

I try to create characters that I am fascinated by on some level or intrigued by or can't stand.

I like to take a character and develop it.

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

In creative writing, I teach that characters arise out of our need for them.

You invent this massive lagoon of information without any pressure to do anything apart from create this person, a person that might fit the bill that is the character that is emerging from the research.

I try to construct some kind of backstory for my character so that I have an idea of the life of that character - not just from the moment when the scene starts, but from before.

I love creating new characters that are whatever they are.

When you create a character, you create it for yourself - you do whatever you want. It's your job to explore it in as many different avenues as you can in order to make it a fully wounded character.

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

I write in character a lot.

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

When writing a novel a writer should create living people; people not characters. A character is a caricature.