A Quote by Terry McMillan

I try to create characters that I am fascinated by on some level or intrigued by or can't stand.

Terry McMillan

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Terry McMillan
American - Novelist
Born: October 18, 1951

I don't know that I am fascinated with crime. I'm fascinated with people and their characters and their obsessions and what they do. And these things lead to crime, but I'm much more fascinated in their minds.

Ruth Rendell

I think at some level, it's just alchemy that we, as writers, can't explain when we write the characters. I don't set out to create the characters - they're not, to me, collections of quirks that I can put together. I discover the characters, instead. I usually go through a standard set of interview questions with the character in the beginning and ask the vital stuff: What's important to you? What do you love? Hate? Fear? .. and then I know where to start. But the characters just grow on their own, at a certain point. And start surprising me.

Rachel Caine

I think, ultimately, if you create characters that people like and can relate to, your characters are grounded on a human level even if your cars are not.

James Wan

I am endlessly fascinated by this notion that everyone has a secret. Some of our secrets are tiny, small things, and some of them are huge. Given that reality of the human condition, that's what our characters will go through. There will be some things where you'll just be like, "What the hell! How the hell did that happen?"

Veena Sud

I was always fascinated by the fact that you could take paper and ink and create worlds, images, characters. It seemed like magic.

Carlos Ruiz Zafon

I did try and do some spooky stand up once, and some of my stand-up had - I tried to do some horror stand-up, but it didn't really work very well.

Julian Barratt

I think I am fascinated with slightly tragic characters.

Janhvi Kapoor

We are fascinated by the club and the dancefloor; we are also fascinated by very nuanced sonic experiences, and somehow we are convinced that we can bring together these two contradictory forces and create some kind of sonic supernova. This would be the candle that has always been at the center of our project.

Thomas Koner

I am always fascinated by the way kids create their own world. That is something I am very attentive to anywhere I go.

Francis Alys

I am always fascinated by the mental struggles that people and characters have.

Mike Flanagan

The thing that attracted me to 'CSI' is that these guys are always professional, but underneath, it's teeming with a heavy shadow. Maybe even some decadence and some weirdness with certain characters! And that always intrigued me as an actor.

Paul Guilfoyle

People are intrigued and fascinated, almost obsessed with the private lives of great public personalities.

Geoffrey Rush

You love all your characters, even the ridiculous ones. You have to on some level; they're your weird creations in some kind of way. I don't even know how you approach the process of conceiving the characters if in a sense you hated them. It's just absurd.