Jennifer Morrison Quotes

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

I always think change is important in a character. The most dynamic choices that you can make for a character are always the best ones.

Keep your central character moving, discovering, learning.

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.

An actual saga demands change, both in its characters and its world.

I'm trying to make all the characters change and grow, or regress.

If you change a character too much, the audience falls out of love with the character, but characters need to evolve and grow over the years.

All stories are just stories of a character changing.

Gilmore Girls' was really a training ground for so many things. It's a real endurance lesson.

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

You hope to see an arc of growth in your ability to become a character on television.

As a character, it's very interesting to play someone who wants to change their life and have him change it.

What characters do must grow out of who they are, and who they are is, in turn, influenced by what you make happen to them.

Changers are characters who alter in significant ways as a result of the events of your story. They learn something or grow into better or worse people, but by the end of the story they are not the same personalities they were in the beginning. Their change, in its various stages, is called the story's emotional arc.

TV is longer form, and that's sometimes a positive, and sometimes a more challenging thing. As an actor, you want to be able to have your character develop or transform in some way. When you're acting on a show over the course of multiple seasons, you get to watch a character really grow and change, and go from one place to an entirely other place.

When I'm writing a script, I don't worry about plot as much as I do about people. I get to know the main characters - what they need, what they want, what they should do. That's what gets the story going. You can't just have action, you've got to find out what the characters want. And then they must grow, they must go somewhere.

There is, in fact, not much point in writing a novel unless you can show the possibility of moral transformation, or an increase in wisdom, operating in your chief character or characters. Even trashy bestsellers show people changing. When a fictional work fails to show change, when it merely indicates that human character is set, stony, unregenerable, then you are out of field of the novel and into that of the fable or the allegory. - from the introduction of the 1986 Norton edition

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.

If there is no possibility for change in a character, we have no interest in him.

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.

Any plot you impose on your characters will be onomatopoetic: PLOT. I say don't worry about plot. Worry about the characters. Let what they say or do reveal who they are, and be involved in their lives, and keep asking yourself, Now what happens? The development of relationship creates plot.

I love the challenge of an entire year has gone by and how has that affected the character you're playing.

There is, in fact, not much point in writing a novel unless you can show the possibility of moral transformation, or an increase in wisdom, operating in your chief character or characters.

When you write a character and their dialogue, you can't help imagining how you would be acting if you were them. You kind of have to relate to all of them. It's the most personal thing I've ever done.