Rebecca Eaton Quotes

It's always fun to layer a character, to make the character a little bit more dynamic than it is on paper.

Nice characters are boring!

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

I think my best quality as a writer is the ability to craft complicated, nuanced, interesting characters.

The film industry is mostly about unidimensional characters.

I want to give my characters nuance.

The easier you make it look, the more difficult it is. Creating characters out of nothing, and making them interesting - and that's another advice I would give to writers.

The challenge was the opportunity. When I read the first draft of Steve Kloves' fabulous adaptation - I hadn't read [Michael] Chabon's book at that time - what I was immediately captivated by was this group of characters that were at once so engaging and so messed up.

When you build characters from the outside in, they become, oftentimes they become like 'Saturday Night Live' characters or they become like caricatures of the character.

My first job is to write the characters as full and authentic people as well as I can.

What I truly get excited about is not the genre of a movie or the size of a part - it's character. I like to find characters.

I don't categorize characters into one syllable. These are fully-rounded characters that I don't judge; I just play them.

As for dream roles, they usually just speak to you. I just crave complex 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.

In a novel, if you're any good, you don't just have good people or bad people. You have complicated people. You have real people.

So I work hard to present the human side of my characters while not neglecting the plot.

What I always studied in screenwriting from my mentor John Glavin was that the most interesting characters are characters with shades of gray.

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

I always look for interesting, complex characters. You know, interesting, well-written material.

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

I don't like two-dimensional characters who are obviously villains from the moment they walk on stage.

The question of likability is a bit of a puzzler for me. You know, I don't write people with likability in mind. It's more whether or not I find them compelling.

To me, the struggle is to try to make a less-well-written or less-well-rounded character and find who they are. If you really get it, and it's all on the page, then it's really just gonna pop out at you.