Lily Tomlin Quotes

I don't base any character on a real person, and really don't do composites either. I make them up.

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

You always have to create the character from the ground up.

You establish a technique on how to develop characters. Everyone does it their own way, and that's what makes it fun.

You have to start from a place of trying to create a character.

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

When you build characters from the outside in, they become, oftentimes they become like 'Saturday Night Live' characters or they become like caricatures of the character.

Sometimes a character is really based on research that you do. Other times it's just based on your imagination or perhaps your conversation with the director. Or sometimes all of the above. It depends on the movie and character.

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

I always say I write my own novels and the characters don't take control of me, but in fact, I look at the characters in the early stages and I think, 'What is he or she like,' and they slowly come together and they become the person they are.

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 really enjoy working in genre series, because you really have to create the characters.

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

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

The point of my explanation is I'm very subjective when it comes to describing my characters: they are all a little bit a part of me from the outside in or the inside out - but to put your mind at ease, I built Paul Snider from the outside in.

In creative writing, I teach that characters arise out of our need for them.

I don't really base any of my characters on specific people that I know, although my characters are informed by the kind of people who live in my community.

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.

Characters are not created on paper or laptop alone.

I love all the characters I write.

I don't ever really know where I get my characters from.

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.

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.