• I have no idea who the characters are, later, their personalities take over anything I might want to do. I end up writing not from my own will, but from theirs-they come alive as I write and make me do things that I couldn't have planned.

    Akira Kurosawa: I have no idea who the characters are, later, their personalities take over anything I might want to do. I end up writing not from my own will, but from theirs-they come alive as I write and make me do things that I couldn't have planned.
    Akira Kurosawa, Bert Cardullo (2008). “Akira Kurosawa: Interviews”, p.71, Univ. Press of Mississippi