Graham Moore Quotes

I like fractured characters with human follies.

I like characters who have faults. I'm drawn to darker people.

To me the interesting main character is never the one without flaws.

I think heroes who are not flawed are not believable.

All my characters are quite relatable, as they are flawed, true, and honest. All of us are flawed; nobody is pure and pious.

I feel like life is much greater than a hero or a villain: there's good people that sometimes make mistakes.

I don't like to play characters that are too perfect.

I'm attracted to playing characters that have flaws.

I don't want a perfect character, I want a character who has, as strange as it sounds, some humanity, some flaws, some needs.

I like playing flawed characters, people who aren't perfect.

I love flawed characters, male or female, and I only want to talk about flawed characters, really, in what I do.

You don't want to play a perfect person; no one cares about that.

I'm very drawn to characters who are very flawed. I'm less interested in characters who are just good or bad, because to me then they're not real people.

I tend to always love material with flawed protagonists and morally ambiguous people.

Fallible characters are more interesting than superheroes in the end.

Do I want a character who just has the best motives and the best intentions, zero flaws, and is doing things for the right reasons? No!

I don't want to watch a show or a movie about the guy who doesn't have any problems, who is sort of a goodie two shoes and just does everything morally right, because that's not the person I relate to. That's not who I am. That's not what anyone is.

The more shaded, flawed characters that are struggling, I think there's something very relatable about that.

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

We're all flawed, and we all make mistakes, and we all have weaknesses. And those are the kind of people I want to see onscreen, the ones that feel like real flesh-and-blood human beings and not the weird, whitewashed, Hollywood stand-ins for people with the rough edges sanded off that I can't connect to because they just don't resonate with me.

All of my characters are less than perfect.

In a novel, if you're any good, you don't just have good people or bad people. You have complicated people. You have real people.

There have to be moments when you glimpse something decent, something life-affirming even in the most twisted character. That's where the real art lies. See, I always suspect characters who are painted as lovely, decent human beings. I would always question where the darkness lies.

I don't really like heroes who always behave heroically. That's not interesting to me.

I don't want to play a bad guy who doesn't have a bit of good in him.