Character may be manifested in the great moments, but it is made in the small ones.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Character, in great and little things, means carrying through what you feel able to do.
Always in all my books I'm trying to reveal or help to reveal the hidden greatness of the small, of the little, of the unknown - and the pettiness of the big.
To me, characters are at the heart of great literature.
Look at the Coen brothers. All their minor characters are as interesting as their protagonists. If the smaller characters are well-written, the whole world of the film becomes enriched. It's not the size of the thing, but the detail.
Character is the ability to carry out a good resolution long after the excitement of the moment has passed.
Minor things can become moments of great revelation when encountered for the first time.
The whole point of having great characters is the opportunity to explore them more deeply with time, re-interpreting them for each new age.
Smallness in a great man seems smaller by its disproportion with all the rest.
We have created characters and animated them in the dimension of depth, revealing through them to our perturbed world that the things we have in common far outnumber and outweigh those that divide us.
All greatness of character is dependent on individuality. The man who has no other existence than that which he partakes in common with all around him, will never have any other than an existence of mediocrity.