Neeraj Kabi Quotes

I tend to come up with people more than situations - most of my books start with a character.

When you're building a character, or at least when I'm building a character, you start saying, 'How am I going to make people like him?'

When I develop a character, I usually start by creating a backstory with whatever information I have access to.

In creating a new character, it's sometimes difficult to find a touchstone, a North Star that will always point you in the direction that character will travel.

As actors, you don't actually need to know the future of the character. You just need to know the backgrounds.

It's nice to create a character, not just within two scenes, but within the journey of a whole movie. It's fun to do that.

I live intimately with my characters before starting a book. I cut out pictures of them for my wall. I do time lines for each major character and a time line for the entire novel: What is going on in the world as my characters struggle with their problems?

I know all actors are different, but I've never sat down and asked the writers, 'Where are we headed? Am I good or bad?'

You've got to leave the reader with more than just a name and a costume - they need to know who the character is, what they're like, what kind of attitude they have, what sort of role they play.

Well, first of all, you read the script a million times. Because what the script gives you are given circumstances. Given circumstances are all the facts of your character.

I have a cheat-sheet for each one of my characters about their personality, the way they look, etc. So there is no possible way that I could have writer's block.

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

For me, I always have to establish a reality for the character. In very actor-y terms, you just have to understand his reality.

You're living with these characters for years and years, you need to have a lock on who they are as people, what they like, what they don't like, what they experience, and what they go through.

Because characters are your creations, you are the one who ultimately gets to decide their fate.

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

For every book that I write... I develop a history for each person and make sure they are well rounded and flawed. You have to know everything about them from their shoe size, to where they went to school, to what their first pet was, to what they like to eat, to what they want out of life.

Every single film I've done, it's about the character.

Any author of fiction will tell you that characters don't need to be told what to do.

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

I try to begin with a strong grasp of my characters. Even if it's schematic, I need it clear in my head who these people are.

In the process of developing a character, you do, in fact, start to take him on as a personality.

I've got to write about my character every day. I've got to find out where he lives, what bus he catches to school, and stuff like that. You've got to know every little thing about him so when you do it, it feels natural.

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

I'm about my characters.