Simon Beaufoy Quotes

In 'Hollow City,' I'm taking all the characters out of the lives they've been secure in for years and plunging them into the unknown. That's how you really get to know them.

Main characters should grow and change during the course of a story.

I'm not sure Kinsey has changed in these first twelve books. I think the reader learns more about her, but from Kinsey's perspective, only three years have passed while the rest of us have been getting older at a much faster clip.

I enjoy heroines who grow and come into their own during the course of a story.

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

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

You don't want a character who sits on an even playing field the whole time.

For me, one thing I love is having an arc for a character. I love being able to see a character go through something and to learn.

That's kind of my ideal sequel - a movie that continues the story, takes one character and moves on, and moves forward with that character that survived with the first one.

With each movie [Twilight saga], we went in trying to explore that character a little deeper, or in a different sense. But, at the same time, there was a comfort in knowing that you know this person.

The character can never be static from book to book. People might think you just come up with a new plot and stick this guy in. Well, he has to be as new as the plot every time.

Don't put your characters on a treadmill. They need to go new places, face new challenges and do new things.

As an actor what you're always looking for is a character that is going to grow and change especially on television. I feel incredibly lucky to be working on a television show where the writing is always geared towards us growing and changing.

The reader wants to see something happen between pages one and four hundred, and nothing happens if the characters don't change.

In dramatic writing, the very essence is character change. The character at the end is not the same as he was at the beginning. He's changed-psychologically, maybe even physically.

The character has to have some kind of arch. The character has to go through an event, and be changed by the human event.

I love seeing a story evolve over several books and watching characters develop.

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.

There is always that thought that you might get stuck with a character. But there's always the notion that every character is always evolving.

I want to try everything I can; I want to push my boundaries and experiment with characters and genres that I have yet to try.

Why is every great children's story about a journey? Maybe that's because we are always on one.

I've often said the reader knows every bit as much about Thorne as I do. When I created him for 'Sleepyhead,' I was determined he should be a character who would develop, book by book, change and grow as we all do, and who - crucially - would be unpredictable.

I've never played a hero before so I jumped at the chance.

I tend to relate to a character in terms of the arc: what's interesting is where he starts versus where he ends up.

It is only in adventure that some people succeed in knowing themselves - in finding themselves.