George Perez Quotes

There's a lot about the character. It doesn't always happen, but there are some characters you really create a relationship with, almost as if they were your friend. And you never get into their heads again or think like them.

In film you can use images exclusively and narrate a whole story very quickly, but you don't always so easily find the form in cinema to dig deeper into human thoughts and emotions. And in a novel you can much more easily express a character's inner thoughts and feelings.

The characters I write about are very internal.

I don't really approach stories to make them different from other stuff I've seen, I just try to get into the character, into his or her head. Try to make it as funny, as scary or as wild as I can so that I really like it.

I feel like, whatever movie I was making, there would always be moments of human intimacy and insight into a little bit of what makes us tick as people.

If a film isn't really talking about who we are and what our psychologies are, then we're probably not that interested in it, actually.

I think sometimes people can get lost in the bigger special effects, science fiction, robot stuff, and those are cool and fun to watch, too, but I think it's so important to sometimes step back and watch something that's about life and human interaction.

You can't understand a character intellectually, you have to become one with its emotional core.

For each character, I try to understand what is driving them.

I identify in some measure with each of my characters.

What I need, as a reader, is a character with a heart and a voice and a pulse. I need a character so vivid and so specific that she doesn't feel like fiction.

A good movie humanizes people.

As you become acquainted with a character you are creating, you add parts of yourself that are pertinent to that character.

My favorite stories are human, so I'm always looking for...

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.

One of the nice things about acting is that it allows you to open up to the other people within you.

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

With my writing, what I want to do is humanize the young people I write about.

They've turned this character into a human being.

If the novelist shares his or her problems with the characters, he or she is able to study his personal unconscious.

Sometimes I think to get to the emotional level of a scene, you don't necessarily have to have experienced the exact thing that person has experienced, but whatever you have in your life that has gotten you to that place is usually enough.

I don't really approach a character as to whether or not it's good or bad. I just approach a character as to where it lives in me.

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

And that's what people want to see when they go to the theater. I believe at the end of the day, they want to see themselves - parts of their lives they can recognize. And I feel if I can achieve that, it's pretty spectacular.

Any show I'm working on, I want the stories to always be about something, and to have the potential to be emotional. That's the kind of story that I like.