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And almost always there has to be change, change in the characters is the journey - it's the story.

Novels demand a certain complexity of narrative and scope, so it's necessary for the characters to change.

I am a big proponent of character arcs that show us how people change over time.

If fiction changes things, it's usually because it's a powerful way of exploring social issues. And it helps us to understand people who are different from us.

Well, the thing about great fictional characters from literature, and the reason that they're constantly turned into characters in movies, is that they completely speak to what makes people human.

If you change a character too much, the audience falls out of love with the character, but characters need to evolve and grow over the years.

As an actor, you always want to keep it different, change it up, and, you know, just to keep yourself inspired and work with interesting characters.

Main characters should grow and change during the course of a story.

I feel it's very important to let individual writers' voices come through. But the character has to be consistent.