Character is doing the right thing when nobody's looking. There are too many people who think that the only thing that's right is to get by, and the only thing that's wrong is to get caught.
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Our character is what we do when we think no one is looking.
Everyone tries to define this thing called Character. It's not hard. Character is doing what's right when nobody's looking.
There is a difference between legitimate issues of character - someone's behavior - and the issue of whether someone who has done something wrong in their life, now because of those mistakes, can't talk about what is the right thing to do.
Early in my career, I'd plan something out for my characters. But I've learned that if you know who your character is and you go on instinct, it won't be wrong. It's never wrong. It's just different.
If you can just actually let the character be for a bit, then you get the right sense.
They think something's gone wrong, but in Don't Look Now, for instance, one scene was made by a mistake. It's the scene where Donald Sutherland goes to look for the policeman who's investigating the two women.
We all have these tendencies in us that could go this way or that. I think that's the real key in writing. To look at a character without judgment.
Characters are often revealed by the ways they misapprehend others.
One of the ways that you reveal character is by getting a character into a situation and seeing what they do.
Suspicion is far more to be wrong than right; more often unjust than just. It is no friend to virtue, and always an enemy to happiness.
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