Zach McGowan Quotes

Every actor wants to have a character that changes, that has some kind of movement, that gets from point A to point B, that doesn't just supply one note.

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.

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

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.

I kind of thought the writers were starting to take Taylor and make her kind of down and dirty.

The Duffers like that; they like watching their characters grow.

It's nice to create a character, not just within two scenes, but within the journey of a whole movie. It's fun to do that.

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

There is always that thought that you might get stuck with a character. But there's always the notion that every character is always evolving.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

For me to have the opportunity to stay with one character for, God willing, a long period of time, is really exciting.

Usually when you have a sequel, the character always stays the same and that's true basically of 'Rocky III,' 'IV' and 'V.' He didn't really change.

For me, one thing I love is having an arc for a character.

I like a character that is still alive and is necessarily thinking, and either grows or diminishes or whatever.

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.

We did so much work developing the character of Kratos, why would we throw all that out? We're sort of treating the first seven games like chapter one of this character's life.

Film is so much to do with perfection and how differently you can feel about someone at the beginning of the film and the end of the film.

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.

There's no particular role that comes to mind that I'd like to take on, but for me, it's about playing interesting characters and not just two-dimensional ones.