Theresa Rebeck Quotes

When you create a character, you create it for yourself - you do whatever you want. It's your job to explore it in as many different avenues as you can in order to make it a fully wounded character.

I think the idea of creating a character from scratch, one that has not been done in a novel or an existing story, is immensely exciting, terrifying and ultimately rewarding.

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

I love creating new characters that are whatever they are.

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

For as long as I can remember, I was always creating random characters.

I take little bits and pieces of ideas that I may or may not believe in but I give them to this character and he runs with them. I have fun with however he handles the situation.

So much of what I do... is coming up with new characters and trying to invent voices for them, and to have people fully fleshed out in my head and to know who can say what in the scene and who these characters are... I love it.

What do you do in a novel? You take recognizable characters from your own life, and you fantasize about what they're really like.

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 coming up with new characters. Whether it's revamping an old character no one likes or just coming up with brand-new stuff, that's kind of what excited me as an artist.

When you're creating a character out of nothing, you have to make all the guesses as to how they walk, how they talk, how they think. It was all there on the table for us to pick and choose for Murrow.

One of the things about writing fiction is that you create people that you feel, more or less, as though you know.

One has to be able to twist and change and distort characters, play with them like clay, so everything fits together. Real people don't permit you to do that.

I work out the other bits, too, but I need to know what I look like, very early on. And then it's like a template; I'll fill that person out. If I get that out of the way, then I'm all right.

To create a character who really interests you, try combining aspects of your favourite fictional character with a real person.

When you have a character to work with, you carry them around in a strange way - they make you look at the world in a different way.

You invent this massive lagoon of information without any pressure to do anything apart from create this person, a person that might fit the bill that is the character that is emerging from the research.

Characters are not created on paper or laptop alone.

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

I always believed in my characters. I lived them.

I just love to be able to actually build a character.

I started improvising the Cliff character, based on someone I grew up with.

My characters are fictional. I get ideas from real people, sometimes, but my characters always exist only in my head.

I normally write in the first person, and my narrators are as real to me as any of the people I have worked with. They live and breathe in my imagination.