Every time I make a movie I have too many characters and too many locations.
[Reviewing the New York City Telephone Directory] But it is the opinion of the present reviewer that the weakness of plot is due to the great number of characters which clutter up the pages. The Russian school is responsible for this.
I don't live that much with the character. I find it hard enough having to spend so many hours with the character during the day.
If a movie has more characters than an audience can keep track of, the audience will get confused and lose interest in the story.
I wish I didn't have to perform 'Iron Man' every night.
I love big, sprawling movies where there are too many characters, and people get introduced halfway through, and you're like, 'Wait, who are these people?'
In a film, there are too many characters. If the film is not a hit, then nobody really notices your work.
The two mistakes that come to mind are people who introduce a flood of characters in the first few pages. Where the reader has to stop and get out a flow chart and has to figure out who is who. And you just can't do that - introduce the first four generations of a character's family in the first chapter. You can introduce four or five characters at the most in the first chapter. Another mistake is to use big words that are not normally used in conversation to try to impress folks with your vocabulary.
