We, people, are so very, very complicated that no matter how well drawn a fictional character is, they can't get anywhere near as complex as a real person.
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It's more difficult playing a real-life person than a fictional character - you can go easy on yourself with a fictional character.
My characters are fictional. I get ideas from real people, sometimes, but my characters always exist only in my head.
To me, my characters are more real than most people I meet.
I think one of the things you have to learn if you're going to create believable characters is never to make generalizations about groups of people.
I always find the more you can draw on real life characters, people, situations, it works better. Certainly for designing a character, I prefer to draw on real people rather than other guys I've seen in movies, rather than 'here's my version of Clint Eastwood' or whoever.
Among adults, we can admit that of course, characters are creations. They aren't real people.
I think it's nearly impossible to write something fictional without having it be about yourself in some way or another.
I love to start characters in a place where you think you know them. We can make all kinds of assumptions about them and think they have no redeeming qualities, but like everyone, they're complex.
You need the audience to become invested in the characters and in order to become invested, they need to identify with the characters... and that's why the characters need to be real.
I believe strongly that characters are five-dimensional, and they're complicated, and life is complicated, and people are complicated.