Greg Kinnear Quotes

I think all interesting characters have some kind of a complex.

The beauty of Sudhir's protagonists is that they are not shown as black and white. There are various layers to the characters.

I am not interested in one-sided characters.

I always tell my students to complicate your characters: never make it easy for the reader. Nobody is ever one thing. That's what makes characters compelling.

Whenever I have tried to make a character bad, they end up being good in some way.

I am attracted to the complexities and deeper truths of characters, and I can't name a favourite role any more than I can name a favourite food!

Very few of my characters are totally heroic or totally villainous.

I like to play characters that are convincing, that aren't just straightforward and nice.

When you're reading, like, a character's thoughts, or when it's in first person, you're reading kind of their own story, so you have the opportunity to see what makes that character complex or complicated. And to me, that's what the whole point of fiction is.

I like it when the deeper you go with the character, the more you see the layers start to peel away.

I also try very hard to create characters - both heroes and villains - with psychological depth.

It's certainly more interesting for me as an actor, but I think it's also more interesting for the audience to see three-dimensional characters, rather than just a bad guy or a good guy.

There's more depth to Lionel. What I am finding so interesting about playing him is there's all these different layers. I prefer playing Lionel because he's a human being.

Human character is just endlessly fascinating, and there is no character who is one thing any more than any one person is just one thing. As you work on a character, he/she is revealed more and more. That's what I continue to love about the work.

I just like playing interesting, complex, complicated characters. I like films that also have an element of humor.

I want to look at this character from all points of view. I know I don't want to make them all good or all bad or all anything... the story itself often helps create the character.

There is more meat and mileage in complex characters, like 'Running with Scissors.'

I do think you need to understand a character's motivation and perspective.

I think conflicted characters are always more interesting.

I like the characters that have some redeeming quality or if it's interesting to me in any way.

You're only reduced to a cliche if you don't humanize a character.

I want to do interesting characters with depth, which are a part of great stories. In fact, if the character is quirky and challenging, that's even better.

I didn't like characters that were one- or two-dimensional. I liked a guy to have a lot of different levels to him and layers, and I think I pretty well succeeded with Thanos.

I really want to work on characters that have a lot of complexity and you don't always get that in comic book movies because they're not character explorations. I have nothing against movies like that, but I do see them as kind of like a cheeseburger.

That's what attracts me to the kind of characters I try and write - that they're not cut and dried.