There's no rule that we have to like the characters movies are about.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
What always leads me in terms of my movies are characters.
I'm not always interested in Hollywood norms and boy-next-door kind of characters.
I like movies about people and movies with characters; that's what I'm drawn to as a person who likes to create these characters within the story, but I like it all, really.
The movies that are really big, at least in my experience, oftentimes don't have characters that I feel as personally connected to.
I don't really ever think about whether or not I like the characters I'm playing. I'm more into the minutiae of their behaviour or what they're doing in a certain scene.
I have a rule: I will not alter the basic history of a real-life character to suit our fictional needs in a big way.
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.
I can always tell when a filmmaker doesn't care about his or her characters; they just care about setting them up to kill them off.
You don't need to like your protagonists.
I always would be happy to make a character even more unlikable, but you know, there's a limit and if you go there, you get into a very different kind of movie, man.