Sharon Lawrence Quotes

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

There's nothing more liberating about starting with something that is not written. You pretty much create the history of that character and that character's life story.

That's not the part of the story that I'm interested in, anyway. The part that I'm interested in is all the personal stuff. I tried to base the powers on family archetypes.

The people I write are real to me, and basically, they tell me about their environments on a need-to-know basis.

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.

There are two questions that you ask yourself as a writer, and one of them is, 'But why?' The question that takes the book forward is, 'What if? What if x y or z happened? How would those characters react?'

I try to research or make up for myself what happened in any character's life. From when he was born until the first page of the script. I fill in the blanks.

How it works for me is that a scene comes to mind, usually a scene between the hero and heroine, that depicts the emotional conflict. From that scene, the characters come alive for me. I don't do a lot of preplanning in any way when I write.

One of those things that I like about TV is that if you get a group of people you like, you can work with these people for months at a time, and you can discover their strengths and weaknesses, and you can use those in the direction where you take the characters.

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

When I create a character, it happens in layers. The more I write and revise, the better I understand the characters.

I loved writing fiction. I mean, once I found the character, or the characters, and knew who they were and knew their back-stories, it really - I mean, I went into my studio every day, thinking, 'What's gonna happen to Billy today?'

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

To try to create a character without a whole lot of information can be taxing. At the same time, it's fun to just stay on your toes and let the next bit of dialogue come in, and turn the page as you read the next script and see what they have in store for you next.

I wanted more in depth ideas about the character and it never came.

I'm really quite bad at coming up with plot ideas. I like to create characters and just see what will happen to them when I let them loose!

I remember the guest stars who came, they were always trying to find a new plot for their characters because they wanted to stay. It was really a great working environment.

I like to take a character and develop it.

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

I'm about my characters.

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

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.

Often the starting point for characters, for me, is finding a little, most minor detail, and I'll go from there.