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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.

— Philip Seymour Hoffman

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✓Similar Perspectives

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.

— Keira Knightley

A lot of times in movies, especially in sequels, the characters become caricatures and just sort of improv machines and joke machines, rather than people you can actually connect to.

— Hayden Schlossberg

Real-life people are often the hardest to play, people that you recreate who have actually lived, because you have to live up to people's knowledge of those characters.

— Derek Jacobi

Movies are different from real life.

— Joseph Gordon-Levitt

I grew up with actors, so I never thought of them as anything but human - sort of horribly, inextricably human.

— Tim Daly

They are imaginary characters. But perhaps not solely the products of my imagination, since there are some aspects of the characters that relate to my own experience of a wide variety of people.

— Margaret Mahy

It's a great challenge to get to play a real-life character. Every actor would love to get a chance, at least once in his life, to play a real-life character.

— Madhur Mittal

What always leads me in terms of my movies are characters.

— Tony Scott

What's the difference between Hollywood characters and my characters? Mine are real.

— Spike Lee

✗Opposing Perspectives

When you're portraying someone that really existed, there has to be a time as an actress where you leave reality and move into the fantasy world so you can do your job of creating a character.

— Bel Powley