Ansel Elgort Quotes

There are a lot of techniques for developing 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?'

All the writing elements are the same. You need to tell a good story... You've got good characters... People think there's some dramatic difference between writing 'Little Bear' and the 'Hunger Games,' and as a writer, for me, there isn't.

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

When I wrote for TV, I was always thinking in terms of character and story. After fifteen years, it became hard-wired in me.

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.

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.

When you have really good writing, you're compelled by the actors who are in it, and you may think it's the actors or the design or the filmmaking of it, but then you're like, 'Well, the base is a really rich story that these guys have created.'

I try to distinguish my characters from each other.

If you know your characters well enough, you aren't trying to grasp for storylines. You're really thinking about their flaws and their passions and what they're chasing.

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

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

I'm about my characters.

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

To create a fully formed character full of life, struggle, and humanity is tough.

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

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

For me, plot always comes out of character, so I had to be sure of my characters.

Something people say about acting is that acting is listening. But I think that writing is listening, too. That you really have to listen to what are they saying and what they're communicating to you. And so, a lot of it is just getting stuff down.

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'm just trying to create characters and tell stories.

Every actor just wants good writing.

Outside books, we avoid colorful characters.

The head writer loves that my character is a boor.