Juno Temple Quotes

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

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

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

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.

I think often times on Joss Whedon's shows he can make you hate a character for a period and then love the character. He does it effortlessly.

There are so few shows that are willing to take risks with their characters in the way that 'Homeland' does. And yet, the audience still comes back and loves those characters.

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.

If you have great characters, then your reader becomes emotionally invested in those people.

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

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.

Fans want to see a story with characters, and they want to see a story.

My character on 'The Good Wife' is a smaller character, and his story arcs are typically season-long, unless it's a big episode for him. His transitions take place over many, many hours.

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'd love to do a film. I'd love to play a character that I know the beginning, middle and end of.

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.

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

I usually start with a repulsive character and go on from there.

My books usually end where they began. I try to bring characters back to a point that is familiar but different because of the growth that they have gone through.

I'm drawn particularly to stories that evolve out of the character of the protagonist.

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.

I'm always sorry to finish a book, to let go of characters I love, people I've struggled to understand for years, people who evolve before me.

My life needed to be saved. Not just Foxy. That's my character. That's my work. Inga is a person.

What I discovered is I don't like to repeat lead characters because one of the most pleasurable things in a book to me is learning about the lead.

There's something pretty awesome about staying with a character and growing.