Rashida Jones Quotes

That's the way I will write characters, put a fair amount of myself in them, and then everyone else who was like that person, I will pick and choose.

There are bits of me in all my characters.

I think every writer will tell you that their characters are always partially themselves: who I am and what I've experienced. It's always there in part of my characters.

I think there's always pieces of yourself that bleed into your character. That's inevitable.

Every character a writer creates has some of themselves in it somewhere.

In each of my characters there is a little of me. Not strictly autobiographical but a little piece of my soul.

Something about your life always makes its way into your stories. That's just the nature of the beast.

Ultimately, I don't think you can be a character who's completely alien or divorced from your own personality. It's probably true of every writer - it's probably true of every filmmaker, every songwriter - that, ultimately, every character you create is a facet of yourself.

There's some of me in all my characters.

I'm not really interested in myself in my writing. I can't see myself in the songs, even though I know different parts of me are there.

All of my characters, I feel, have some essence of who I am in them.

All my main characters have got bits of me, bits of my family, bits of my friends.

I do not believe that with a fictional character you can force yourself too far away from yourself. There has to be some of you in it.

I've always kind of ripped from real life to some degree or at least how I'm feeling in the moment. In fact, maybe that's really it. In anything I've ever written, all the characters sound like me, which I don't think is a bad thing.

I look for characters that speak to something in me.

The ideal way to approach a character is to find something in yourself that relates in some way.

I guess I could say that I pursue questions that interest me in ways that interest me on the page, but that's awfully vague.

I'm so deeply interested in what it feels like to be other people that I get to operate under the illusion when I'm writing fiction that I'm not really revealing that much about myself. But, of course, I am, and I know that I am. And yet there's this sort of membrane that I get to work behind as I write my fiction, and I love it.

Whenever I'm writing a book, small details from my life always creep in.

There is always going to be a little bit of me in each character.

But I always wanted my characters to be more than cyphers for the failings of their world. And I never had to look too hard to find a part of myself in them.

If you write something that's personal, there's going to be elements of yourself in it.

Well, I think that in every character there are little bits and pieces of yourself.

All my characters have got a big slice of me in them. A big piece of me, because it's my dialogue and this is the way I think and talk.

The writer needs to react to his or her own internal universe, to his or her own point of view. If he or she doesn't have a personal point of view, it's impossible to be a creator.