Hideo Kojima Quotes

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 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 love creating new characters that are whatever they are.

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

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

When you're writing a book, with people in it as opposed to animals, it is no good having people who are ordinary, because they are not going to interest your readers at all. Every writer in the world has to use the characters that have something interesting about them, and this is even more true in children's books.

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

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

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

This may sound strange, but although I feel like I know everything about my characters, the brand of shampoo they use, how many cavities they have, their greatest fear, I don't actually see their faces.

Characters are not created on paper or laptop alone.

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

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

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.

What makes characters real are details, and if you're crafting a person from scratch, you're probably not going to pay as much attention to a question like, 'Does this person bite their nails?'

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

I think the idea of creating a character from scratch, one that has not been done in a novel or an existing story, is immensely exciting, terrifying and ultimately rewarding.

When I create characters, I create a world to inhabit and they begin to feel very real for me. I don't belong in a psych ward, I don't think, but they become very real, like my own family, and then I have to say goodbye, close the door, and work on other things.

I spend a lot of time with my characters.

When I create a character, it happens in layers. The more I write and revise, the better I understand the characters.

I try to distinguish my characters from each other.

A character who is thought-out is not born, he or she is contrived. A born character is round, a thought-out character is flat.