Hideaki Itsuno Quotes

I don't know quite how a story develops in my head. It is a bit chaotic. If I am working on a series, one of the main characters at least is already in existence as well as some setting and minor characters. Finding the other main character can be a challenge. Sometimes this character already exists in a minor role in another book.

When you're building a character, or at least when I'm building a character, you start saying, 'How am I going to make people like him?'

I think I try to look at all my films and break them down because, at the end of the day, it's about creating characters that you like.

My history is that I will create a character, and they will have a book to themselves, and then I'll integrate the character into the larger world of all my books.

In a novel, it's hard to keep track of everybody.

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.

Overpopulated fiction can be so confusing that readers put the story down. Under-populated novels can seem claustrophobic or boring. You want the right number of characters for your particular work.

Once you've established where you are, you go to the character and elaborate on expressions and action.

I usually start with a repulsive character and go on from there.

I can move my characters through it easily, because I understand the background; I've really studied it.

You just drop a character like this that and the other and it's done.

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 tend to come up with people more than situations - most of my books start with a character.

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

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.

When I develop a character, I usually start by creating a backstory with whatever information I have access to.

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

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 don't use recurring characters. I do get very interested in my characters while I'm working with them, and I find the process of fitting them into a story, and allowing them to create the story around themselves, fascinating. But no, I don't imagine they have a life outside of what I make for them.

It's necessary to track characters all the way through an opera. If you're dealing with more than one or two characters, it's very easy to forget that the others have lives of their own that feed into the story.

I have a huge emotional attachment to characters I've created, especially the viewpoint characters.

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

For me, one thing I love is having an arc for a character.

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.