#hara

I don't base any character on a real person, and really don't do composites either. I make them up. ↗

— Nora Roberts

#base #character #either #i #make

If anything characterizes the cultural life of the seventies in America, it is an insistence on preventing failures of communication. ↗

— Richard Rosen

#anything #characterizes #communication #cultural #failures

That's definitely a part of who Superman is and definitely who Clark on the farm is. It translates to how calm he is. I feel like I'm pretty calm most of the time and relaxed, which gives presence to the character. ↗

— Brandon Routh

#character #clark #definitely #farm #feel

You can be interested in a Jane Smiley novel whether or not anyone says a word. She enters into her characters' thoughts with great understanding and depth. ↗

— Richard Russo

#characters #depth #enters #great #her

I had never had a positive leading character - somebody that wasn't an antihero, or who wasn't more of a guy that you're supposed to be on the side of. ↗

— Gus Van Sant

#guy #had #i #leading #more

But I always wanted my characters to be more than cyphers for the failings of their world. And I never had to look too hard to find a part of myself in them. ↗

— Douglas Sirk

#characters #failings #find #had #hard

I wasn't a 'Star Trek' fan, yet I knew who all the characters were. that goes to show what an impact the show had not just in entertainment but in life. I knew who Chekhov was and I knew who Kirk and Spock were, although I probably had never seen the show. ↗

— Marina Sirtis

#characters #chekhov #entertainment #fan #goes

Tick is a cartoon character, I don't know if you're familiar with him. This is the third step in his evolution. Comic book to cartoon to, now, live-action. ↗

— Patrick Warburton

#cartoon #cartoon character #character #comic #comic book

I hate the crazy, neurotic characters beyond a certain point. ↗

— Len Wein

#certain #certain point #characters #crazy #hate

There is a stage you reach, Deagle thinks, a time somewhere in early middle age, when your past ceases to be about yourself. Your connection to your former life is like a dream or delirium, and that person who you once were is merely a fond acquaintance, or a beloved character from a storybook. This is how memory becomes nostalgia. They are two very different things - the same way that a person is different from a photograph of a person. ↗

— Dan Chaon

#nostalgia #photograph #age