Jon Favreau Quotes

I feel like if a film is well-written, then the character's arc is complete. There really is very little room to expand on that afterwards.

In film, because you know where the ending is, characters can change, but in television, you substitute revelation for change, and that can be hard to pull off.

I like having a plot; I like characters with a reason to get up in the morning.

Film is so much to do with perfection and how differently you can feel about someone at the beginning of the film and the end of the film.

I think what good television does well is that it shows characters evolving.

I'd never really been in a series, where you see a man at different points and perspectives in his life. Usually it's a film, where I'm playing a character who just comes in and offers something up.

I'm interested in telling the character's story, not my beliefs, political or otherwise.

One pleasure of working on a trilogy is watching characters warp and grow over time.

I suppose with any good writing and interesting characters, you can have that awfully overused word: a journey.

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

After a while, the character sort of took over.

The action genre is not always the most synonymous with character development.

Being able to stay with a character over the course of years is a gift.

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.

Sometimes I know what my characters are moving away from or toward; more often I just wait and see. For instance, though I knew Sinkler in 'The Trusty' was going for water, I did not know that he would meet a fetching young farm wife until I got him into her front yard.

When you get into a film, it is one story and one set development of a character, and you are able to delve into one character for a short period of time and discover everything about them.

When you can have a character that the audience likes from the beginning, but then you put them in a situation where they grow - I think that gives it a lot of heart.

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

Coming from TV and film, rule number one is that you always service the main character first and foremost. If that's not working, you've got nothing.

Filmmaking is always sort of building a mosaic of this arc of what the character is going through.

Characters develop as the book progresses, but any that start to bore me end up in the wastepaper basket. In real life, we may have to put up with tedious people, but not in novels.

I look for roles where there is some kind of an arc to the story.

The emotions of the actors are better when they understand the chronological factors that are adding to the story.

What drives me is character driven material.

Audiences are just like us as writers - we grow attached to characters. In certain ways you don't want them to change.