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When you're playing a character, I think it's always better not to judge that character.

You can't judge your characters or otherwise; it's not about you, it's about them.

I don't have a problem if someone else were to say that one of my characters is a good one and another one is not and is a bad one. I try myself not to have any judgment towards my characters, but certainly the audience might.

I think I'm a good judge of character.

We all have these tendencies in us that could go this way or that. I think that's the real key in writing. To look at a character without judgment.

You can't judge a character that you're playing, because then you're fighting against doing what the character's doing.

You never want to be in a position where your reader feels like you're passing judgment on your own characters. Any novel where you feel like the author is talking to the reader over the characters' heads is in a bad place.

I think if you're too embroiled in the need to relate too closely to the character, then you start to judge the character for the audience rather than to present it to the audience for their enjoyment and them to mull over the questions that the characters present.

We give you characters we'd feel very comfortable judging, and then go: 'Oh yeah? Watch this'.

First of all, the actor needs to get out of the character's way. You follow the character without judgment or prejudice or preconceived ideas.