Morten Tyldum Quotes

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

The characters are whole, real people to me that I'm getting to know, and since real people are all flawed, so are my characters, I hope.

Perfect heroes are cool, but no one can really empathize or identify with them.

I think we love watching people that are flawed because we're all flawed.

I embrace everything about Ally... I don't particularly see her as a whiner. One week she's tough, the next she's really weak. I love that. She's human.

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

I think the negative traits are what makes us love other human beings, the foibles and the flaws.

Imperfection is relatable.

Eventually you love people - friends or lovers - because of their flaws.

I like telling stories of imperfect people because most people are imperfect.

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.

I try to write about real women, real people - in other words flawed characters.

I think the perfection of love is that it's not perfect.

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

I think heroes who are not flawed are not believable.

There's this thing in Hollywood about the sympathetic character and likability. I've never understood that because the people I love most in my life are not likable all the time. My wife is not always likable. I'm certainly not always likable. My dad is not always likable. We're human beings.

I let characters be human and flawed and relatable.

I guess you could say that no matter what the characters are enduring, I try to make them retain their humanity. Their self-absorbed, grouchy, selfish, aggravating humanity.

I always think that if you look at anyone in detail, you will have empathy for them because you recognize them as a human being, no matter what they've done.

Stanley didn't shy away from true humanity or from the ugliness that all people are capable of.

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

If I thought a man had never committed a sin in his life, I don't think I'd want to talk with him. A man with flaws is more interesting.

Flaws make us all human, and you're rooting for characters because of those flaws. It's ageless if you're interested in relationships and the way people can or can't relate to each other.

We're all blemished. Yet we do love and are loved.

My mother is not a model. She is not perfect. That awareness is part of learning to love someone. Predicting the actions of someone is an act of love. We persist, even when we get it wrong. That's the beauty of love.