There are characters in movies who I call 'film characters.' They don't exist in real life. They exist to play out a scenario. They can be in fantastic films but they are not real characters what happens to them is not lifelike.

My favorite characters are the ones that are the most successful movies.

Most movies once the action starts there's no more characters. You say a couple of dumb lines and then there's just explosions until the end.

What I remember when I started to write was how I couldn't wait to get up in the morning to get to my characters.

You come before me this morning with clean hands and clean collars. I want you to have clean tongues clean manners clean morals and clean characters.

Each morning my characters greet me with misty faces willing though chilled to muster for another day's progress through the dazzling quicksand the marsh of blank paper.

I admire directors so much I find them incredible: they manage such a huge number of people of different characters think of the money involved.

States are as the men they grow out of human characters.

If women were particular about men's characters they would never get married at all.

I really love idiot enlightened characters - these characters who fail to engage with the drama of their immediate circumstances they fail to be reactive and enrolled by drama as it happens around them.