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What we want to see is stories that are going to be honest stories about the characters that we're telling them about.

This is the beauty of fiction. We may not like these characters, but we inhabit them.

I've found I can plunge the characters into whatever absurd, awful situation, and readers will follow as long as the writer makes them seem like 'real people.'

If the character is true, the movie will fall into place. Or at least that's what you hope.

I'm hopefully making the reader feel a lot about the characters and then about their own life.

What is more important is finding the soul of the character, and making sure it fits well into this story. And that it be dramatic and interesting and captivating, because these people weren't entertainers, you know.

I suppose all fictional characters, especially in adventure or heroic fiction, at the end of the day are our dreams about ourselves. And sometimes they can be really revealing.

I think that I've always been attracted to characters who are positive and come from a very innocent place. I think there's a lot of room for discovery in these characters, and that's something I always have fun playing.

The reader is going to imprint on the characters he sees first. He is going to expect to see these people often, to have them figure largely into the story, possibly to care about them. Usually, this will be the protagonist.

The movies and TV shows I like to watch tend to put their characters in situations where they have to dig deeper.