Peter Milligan Quotes

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

There is a natural progression to 'Lost,' and as the story goes forward, it's going to change. It's not a static story. The franchise of 'Lost' is not characters sitting on a beach.

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

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

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

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

I love doing a series because you get to see changes in a character and see her grow. It's a journey with change, and you don't get to see that long-term type of development with just a film.

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

Every film you're commissioned to write is all about an arc; usually, the arc is that the world creates a change in the character, usually for the better. To not have an arc, the messages and ideas in the film became more prominent.

I mean it allowed me to do that which was fantastic because we really get to see the character mature and deal with some things that are, that I think as an audience member, really pull us in.

The villain drives the plot.

I've always loved shows that combine both approaches - that have a mythology and a set of characters, whose stories develop and change, and where the relationships evolve and fracture.

After a while, the character sort of took over.

One of the things I've found most challenging about writing a multibook series is keeping it fresh and evolving while still delivering the familiarity that keeps longtime fans devoted to the characters and story world.

In TV, you may think your character's one thing for two episodes, and then the third episode it could be something different.

I believe that 99 percent of successful TV shows change an immense amount from the pilot to the tenth or twelfth episode.

Sometimes I know what my characters are moving away from or toward; more often I just wait and see. For instance, though I knew Sinkler in 'The Trusty' was going for water, I did not know that he would meet a fetching young farm wife until I got him into her front yard.

Well, I don't think characters change. I think they become more revealed. I don't think you really can change a character on a show.

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.

It's fun to grow with a character over the course of a TV series. Video games are usually a much more condensed process.

Novels demand a certain complexity of narrative and scope, so it's necessary for the characters to change.

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.

I felt they had really moved the characters in a direction that was very interesting. The family had really felt the impact of what had happened to the.

I look for roles where there is some kind of an arc to the story.