There's a high head count on 'Homeland.'
When you're working with a smaller budget I suppose one of the things that has to be in your mind when you are writing is that you have to keep the characters down to a minimum.
I'm disappointed by well-written novels that only deal with two or three people.
It's much harder to write a script that involves two people in a single location than 20 people in 30 different locations.
I've done 70 different characters on my podcast. But in terms of characters that I revisit a lot, I think there are 10 that I know more in-depth.
It's harder to write a story with just two people in a room than with 50 characters.
I've done literally 100, 150 different characters.
In a novel, it's hard to keep track of everybody.
Film is much more visual, a scene is typically a lot shorter, you're dealing with a lot more characters, a lot more locations, and you're able to rely on things that you just can never do on the stage.
Character is everything, especially these days when that's what publishers are asking for. Make sure that yours have child appeal. Also don't have a huge cast of characters. One or two is best, four, the maximum.
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.
Ikkaku: Rescue her? How many of you are here? Seven? Maybe eight? Ichigo: Five people and a cat
It is three and a half hours long, four characters wide and a cesspool deep.
The modern economics of the theater is such that we write plays with fewer and fewer characters.
Who on earth is going to use 'utilize' in a text message, a whopping seven characters including the always-hard-to-type 'z,' when you can say the exact same thing in three characters? I can't think of a sentence in which 'use' can't replace 'utilize.'
In terms of scope, and in terms of sheer number of characters, we went beyond our limits long ago.
Music has seven letters, writing has twenty-six notes
It's almost better that Twitter limits me to 140 characters. There's only so much trouble I can get in.
I've done literally 100, 150 different characters. Some of them have only appeared for a line or three. But the point is, every sound I can make has been harvested.
