Kevin Feige Quotes

I do just love the characters in sci-fi, but not necessarily the fact that it's sci-fi.

I don't think about the stories so much, as the characters themselves. They live on, and they are almost as real as I am.

You treat characters like people you meet in life-friends or mentors.

My characters, I find them as I'm writing. It's quite incredible how fully realized they are in my mind, how many details I know about each of them.

Also, as an author, character has always been what I'm most interested in - much more so than plot or setting, although those are good things too.

A lot of people have asked me about some of the characters that appear in 'Clockwork Prince,' like Aloysius Starkweather and Woolsey Scott. A lot of people like Woolsey Scott, which I was really happy about because he's very fun to write.

I think supporting casts in comics are missing. I think a lot of the time in comics, all we have are people in costumes talking to other people in costumes, superheroes talking to superheroes and supervillains, and that's it.

I quite like some of the movies that have many characters in them.

Ultimately, if you look at the characters in my films, you'll see a lot of similarities going all the way back to 'Swingers' with Vince Vaughn's character.

Any important series like 'Game of Thrones' or 'The Walking Dead' base their product around the characters and their background.

In some ways, I don't consider a single Hap and Leonard novel the best, but I consider them my best characters.

Let your characters talk to each other and do things. Spend time with them - they'll tell you who they are and what they're up to.

I think the more depth you build into the characters, and the more you see where they came from, the more fun you can have. Setting up different characters in different relationships is always helpful as you move forward.

All that matters to me as a reader are characters. I want characters to be real, authentic, and rounded. I will be digging into characters for at least a month. Who they are. What they are like. Outside of the story.

That's not the part of the story that I'm interested in, anyway. The part that I'm interested in is all the personal stuff. I tried to base the powers on family archetypes.

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

It's much easier to come back as a recurring character. Because you already know his traits and who he is and what he's about.

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.

You decide which characters you want and then do the best you can to bring their humanity to the forefront in the context that you place them in - the crises in which you've placed them.

Third person allows a deeper exploration of the relationships between characters. We can see their misunderstandings and hear what they think about each other. We can create a more complex structure with various story threads running parallel.

The most interesting thing to me is that 'The Walking Dead' is a show that reinvents itself every eight episodes. It's an evolving landscape. There are characters that die. There are characters that stay on. There are characters that go away. I love that.

Having to think so much about fictitious relationships that work or don't work, and with each relationship between characters managing to do one or other of those in its own peculiar way, I spend a lot of time thinking about relationships, real and imagined.

'Homeland' really is one of those shows where they start to write more or less depending on what's kind of going on in a relationship between characters.

The characters are always the focal point of a book for me, whether I'm writing or reading. I may enjoy a book that has an intriguing mystery or a good plot, but to become one of my real favorites, it has to have great characters.

When you find you don't like a character, you just type four letters and he's dead.