One of my biggest pet peeves is that I just don't like it when characters do things that are funny to the writer but you don't know why they're doing it and it doesn't make any sense.

Reading a novel in which all characters illustrate patience hard work chastity and delayed gratification could be a pretty dull experience.

All cartoon characters and fables must be exaggeration caricatures. It is the very nature of fantasy and fable.

Television is where the best work for women is right now. I would love to do more movies but the reality is women have many more opportunities on television to play a greater variety of characters.

I would love to do more movies but the reality is women have many more opportunities on television to play a greater variety of characters.

Well the thing about great fictional characters from literature and the reason that they're constantly turned into characters in movies is that they completely speak to what makes people human.

I'm a big kid I'm a kid at heart so I still love the classic family films such as the great Warner Bros film 'Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory' - not the remake but the original. It's still one of the best movies hands down ever made and of course that goes back to the ingenuity of the characters and the storyline.

In anything I've ever written all the characters sound like me which I don't think is a bad thing. It makes sense. But I had always admired filmmakers who made movies that didn't sound like them at all.

I'll tell you what I really enjoy. We all go to the movies we all watch television we know what they're about how they work. When the main character is a cop or a spy it's very exciting but I also very much enjoy when the main characters are nobodies - a trucker.

You see so many earnest characters in movies all the time everyone has a purpose.

I'm a big fan of vampire movies generally and that sort of tradition of characters.

My childhood was influenced by the roles my father played in his movies. Whether Abraham Lincoln or Tom Joad in the 'Grapes of Wrath ' his characters communicated certain values which I try to carry with me to this day.

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.

I have found it easier to identify with the characters who verge upon hysteria who were frightened of life who were desperate to reach out to another person. But these seemingly fragile people are the strong people really.

Travel provided many interesting experiences but perhaps the most useful lesson I learned was that I really had no proficiency for learning the thousands of characters of the written Chinese language.