Casey Neistat Quotes

And the most important thing - apart from telling a good, believable story, and being a true character - is to be someone the audience will care about, even if you're playing a murderer or rapist.

If you care about the characters, then whatever scary thing happens to them, you feel it even more.

My characters are always utterly sympathetic to me, if that makes any sense.

Audiences need to engage with characters.

You have to think about storytelling over the long haul: what is going to engage an audience for, potentially, years and how characters can become deeply involving for an audience.

It's always really cool as an actor to have a character that people want to see the best for.

Something that 'Game of Thrones' always does successfully is that action sequences are never just action sequences. There's always a point of view, and you're always identifying with one person or one group of people.

What makes an audience watch something and care about the characters is the emotional life of the characters.

A whole film is just about arriving at a moment where you hopefully transfer some feeling to the audience.

You can sustain visual beauty and innovative visual ideas for a certain length of time, but in a two-hour experience, which is really what movies are, usually audiences - whether they know it or not - most want an emotional connection to character.

Television lets audiences deeply connect with characters.

Sympathetic characters usually have a voice. They usually don't have any trouble being heard.

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.

I don't like the idea the viewer can kind of sit there and go, 'Make me like this person.' People aren't inherently sympathetic.

I don't think people are ever going to a place where they're like, 'I'm over stories about character and love.'

I try mainly to just focus on character and what my character's point of view is, with each person, and try to figure out story.

I'm sorry, but to ask an audience these days to invest three hours in a show requires your heroine be an understandable and fully rounded character.

As an actor, that's the best thing you can do, really take people along on a story and tell them something.

I'm hopefully making the reader feel a lot about the characters and then about their own life.

In the end, drama is successful if you care about the people.

I believe people leave a theater bonding with characters. Story is the vessel that carries character. Comedy is a very important component of expressing character.

The film depends on the audience's belief in this relationship.

You need the audience to become invested in the characters and in order to become invested, they need to identify with the characters... and that's why the characters need to be real.

We seek to craft characters who inspire empathy: characters our audience will care for and, as a result, will care about what happens to them and thus will share the journey we have charted. A story, after all, is the character's journey.

I always want to make sure I'm telling a story about people that I care about.