Noah Baumbach Quotes

I just love to be able to actually build a character.

I like to make definite choices and give my characters as many unique edges as possible.

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

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

There are a lot of techniques for developing a character.

My stories are character driven.

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

You invent this massive lagoon of information without any pressure to do anything apart from create this person, a person that might fit the bill that is the character that is emerging from the research.

I love creating new characters that are whatever they are.

I admit I do develop characters from little parts of things I've seen others do.

The JBL character, I had had in mind for a long time, a character very similar.

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

Nice characters are boring! I like writing upbeat characters - that's my natural tendency.

For as long as I can remember, I was always creating random characters.

We're storytellers - and if the story is told well, you go with the form.

I do feel like that's what a writer does, is he goes into other people's heads.

I'm a huge believer in story being this invisible scaffolding that no one ever recognizes or realizes is actually making the audience engaged in what's going on. There is no formula for it.

I'm just trying to create characters and tell stories.

I'm a big fan of when you model a character as someone with a biological origin, doing deep dives and a lot of research.

Rarely do I try to pull a creature out of life and make it a character.

Every writer has compressed time and procedure, and used clarifying dialogue. That's not a scandal: it's a legitimate dramatic technique.

I wrote a story about a character who looks like Harry Styles. But it has nothing to do with Harry Styles at all.

I'm interested in characters. I love them, and I love to write them.

I like to describe my characters as though they were all trapped in a glass box.

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