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As human beings, of course, we're all compromised and complex and contradictory and if a screenplay can express those contradictions within a character and if there's room for me to express them, that's a part I'd love to play, so much more than a character who is heroic and one-dimensional.

— Hugo Weaving

Sentiment: POSITIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

I need to react to a script, to feel strongly about it in some way. And I need it to be a complex character for sure. And also, I think a lot about what kind of audience there is for the film, what they're looking for and ways to connect with them in the playing of a character.

— Jeremy Renner

I connect with all of the characters in my films. That's what makes you want to make a film, that you can enter the mindset, the situation, the conflict, the contradictions.

— Pawel Pawlikowski

With writing fiction, I'm either not courageous enough or just not suited for telling truths in a more conventional way. As an actor, I inhabit those characters as I'm writing them.

— Ray McKinnon

The screenplay has to be gripping. That's when the film will work. Then, I see how much I can relate to the character I'm playing.

— Dhanush

A script narration is like watching a film, and I react to it like an audience with my own instinct. After that, I look for what is my character, what will I bring to the table in that role, how challenging will it be.

— Deepika Padukone

What your character does for a living is one of the most important choices you can make in a screenplay, even if their job is tangential to the story, because it tells you everything about the condition of their life. Are they doing what they love? Are they doing what they hate?

— Alex Kurtzman

I think of myself as a guy who tries to write screenplays and now has tried to direct one. Anything more than that is meaningless and it gets in the way of being a real human being.

— Charlie Kaufman

In the past, I'll admit, I've enjoyed being compared to the protagonists in my screenplays.

— Diablo Cody

I find screenplays easy to write, my novels being very visual. You see what people look like. The physical action is described.

— John Irving

✗Opposing Perspectives

I would love to play an unexpected character. Really raw and simple and not a cliche - something rugged. People like to put actors in boxes.

— Eva Green