Graham Brown Quotes

With a lot of comedies, the characters go on a journey, and they come back, and they're the exact same people.

Real people - the interesting ones, anyway - don't remain static, and neither do the ones I write about. Changes take place, and they react to them.

All stories are just stories of a character changing.

You cannot have the same kind of character again and again in every season or every stage of your life. You change, people change.

Drama comes from characters changing. If characters stay the same and nothing changes, there's really nothing to look at.

To me good storytelling is about journeys. It's about people's journeys, people's discoveries and how they deal with those discoveries; circumstances that put people in different situations.

What makes a story a story is that something changes. Internal, external, small or large, trivial or of earth-shattering importance. Doesn't matter.

When you have a movie, you know who they start out as and where they go. But this is constantly changing, and you're growing with the character.

Your journey never ends. Life has a way of changing things in incredible ways.

I think everybody goes through changes, and the same should be said for fictional characters, especially ones that you follow on television.

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.

The best way to change it is to do it. Right? And then after a while you become it, and it's easy.

An actual saga demands change, both in its characters and its world.

You don't just have a story - you're a story in the making, and you never know what the next chapter's going to be. That's what makes it exciting.

As an actor, I think a mistake that any storyteller can make is to play the ending.

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.

Everything in my life has been a stepping-stone to something else.

The tendency of everyone is to evolve.

I'm not a diva. I'm a tadpole trying to be a frog.

I think all my movies are about transitions to some degree.

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

I like any story that starts one place and really takes a huge journey to a whole new place; that people in their life want to take that journey. They want to be able to find things in their life that aren't working and work through them to a new place of change.

Everyone changes all the time.

At the end of a song, someone's always different than they are at the beginning.

Time repeats itself, so it's up to you to keep up with the curves of the music and keep reinventing yourself so you can be better than what you are.