Quotes About Characterisation

#1. I like dramas because there's a big overlap between film and fiction, so I feel relatively qualified to talk about plot and characterisation and that sort of thing.

Sarah Waters

#2. I'm not good at dialogue. I'm not good at holding a mirror up at a real world. I'm not good at believable characterisation.

Jim Crace

#3. So long as people expect paintings to be simply coloured photographs they get no individuality and, in the case of portraits, no characterisation.

William Dobell

#4. Forget narrative, backstory, characterisation, exposition, all of that. Just make the audience want to know what happens next.

David Mamet

#5. You can't say the public likes generic characters. Give others a chance, go for a more rooted and honest characterisation, take some risk, and then let the public choose.

Randeep Hooda

#6. It's always the case, whenever you're doing someone real, how much you want to do an impression or a characterisation. If I was doing Churchill, or Gandhi - people know exactly how they talked, walked.

Martin Freeman

#7. My three C's of writing: chocolate, cat and computer. Check, check and check.

Wendy L. Schmidt

#8. I grew up watching Steven Spielberg and scary movies.

M. Night Shyamalan

#9. Mirabelle and Vesta have plenty in common because they are facing descrimination in different ways, but they're also a nice contrast.

Sara Sheridan

#10. I just feel like I'm going to be criticized regardless of what I do next, so I might as well do something that I feel really passionate about.

Katy Perry

#11. My way of joking is to tell the truth

George Bernard Shaw

#12. She liked people. Me, I can take them or leave them, but mostly leave them.

Sue Townsend

#13. Very often the characters people respond best to have little parts of reality they can relate to.

Sara Sheridan

#14. I'm the kind of person [who] when I'm doing a play, and even when I'm working, I don't do anything else. When I'm working, I just work.

Jessica Chastain

#15. A word out of place or an interesting choice of vocabulary can spawn a whole character.

Sara Sheridan

#16. Watchfulness is the only guard against cunning. Be intent on his intentions. Many succeed in making others do their own affairs, and unless you possess the key to their motives you may at any moment be forced to take their chestnuts out of the fire to the damage of your own fingers.

Baltasar Gracian

#17. If you put Mirabelle into some of the situations she gets into, there is only one way Mirabelle can behave.

Sara Sheridan

#18. A pitcher needs two pitches, one they're looking for and one to cross them up.

Warren Spahn

#19. He was endowed with the extraordinary powers of endurance characteristic of madmen and simpletons.

Vasily Grossman

#20. If you're happy inside you don't have to convince everyone else.

Anna Maxted

#21. Sometimes I create a character from a scrap - a mere mention that has been left behind.

Sara Sheridan