Vijay Sethupathi Quotes

You spend so much time writing a character the way I did with Buddy Baker and then Green Arrow that you start to care about them. And you almost think of them as people, you know?

When I create characters, I create a world to inhabit and they begin to feel very real for me. I don't belong in a psych ward, I don't think, but they become very real, like my own family, and then I have to say goodbye, close the door, and work on other things.

I like to take a character and develop it.

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

One of the things that separates a good genre movie from a bad genre movie, I always think, ironically, is when you care about the people. The dime a dozen ones are where you don't have any awareness of the character.

I love... What's gratifying to me is when you make/create a character and a human being, a person who lives entirely and who has their own existence, just merely from the words on a page.

Never argue with your characters; they know themselves better than you do.

I seem to have to make my characters family before I can access their hearts in any way that matters.

I love making characters real and believable, through my own experience and choices.

As a novelist, I tend to know significantly more about my characters than I do about my friends.

You really have to create everything in order to come away with a full human being on screen.

There are a lot of techniques for developing a character.

I am a firm believer that a good plot makes for a fun enough read, but it's not what binds us. If we don't care about the characters, we won't care - not in a lasting way - about what's happening to them.

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

I can tell you that as a writer and as a reader, I regard character as king. Or queen. No matter how riveting the action or interesting the plot twists, if I don't feel like I'm meeting someone who feels real, I'm not going to be compelled to read further.

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

I'm about my characters.

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.

My characters are always utterly sympathetic to me, if that makes any sense.

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.

I don't write a whole lot about one person that exists in reality; it's usually characteristics of different people that I combine into a character. I tend to think through and try and make characters behave in a natural way. I follow the character and think about what they would do, what decisions they would make.

I made Tony a person. For me, Tony was real. I made him become a human being, and that affected the animation and everything.

A character takes shape in the act of writing. You start with something, and you add or subtract.

What makes an audience watch something and care about the characters is the emotional life of the characters.