When you're telling a story, the best stories, every character has an arc. Every one. And that arc is usually about finding yourself, or about at least finding something about yourself that you didn't know.
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Every film you're commissioned to write is all about an arc; usually, the arc is that the world creates a change in the character, usually for the better. To not have an arc, the messages and ideas in the film became more prominent.
Characters are so important to a story that they actually decide where the story is going. When I write, I know my characters. I know how things are going to end, and I know some important incidents along the way.
For me, one thing I love is having an arc for a character.
It's a whole other way of working when you work in films: You know exactly the arc of your character.
I try mainly to just focus on character and what my character's point of view is, with each person, and try to figure out story.
When you're making a television show, it's about the story and arc of the show rather than any particular episode or director.
I definitely have character arcs in mind for each character unless I kill them.
The stories that I like to tell and the movies I like are always grounded in the emotional arc of the characters.
In real life, people are constantly saying one thing and doing another, but if you write your characters that way, the story becomes too hard to follow.
I'm always writing about character first. Plot, such as it is, comes from the characters.
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