Jennifer Hale Quotes

What audiences love with series is that they can invest in characters for such a long period of time, and it's the same for actors. You can truly tell your story; then it's done.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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

With a series, you build the character as you go. When you've got a shorter project or a film, you know the overall arc from the beginning.

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

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

Watching something like 'Orange is the New Black' - the development of the characters is amazing. Or 'Breaking Bad' or 'Mad Men' - those shows went on for so long. You become so invested in those characters, and I think that's a pretty magic thing.

Audiences are just like us as writers - we grow attached to characters. In certain ways you don't want them to change.

I love the long-form format of television. I love being able to develop a character, over a long period of time.

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

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 something really satisfying if you've created a bunch of characters that have withstood 25 episodes.

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.

My books usually end where they began. I try to bring characters back to a point that is familiar but different because of the growth that they have gone through.

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.

After a while, the character sort of took over.

I can always tell when a filmmaker doesn't care about his or her characters; they just care about setting them up to kill them off.

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

What I discovered is I don't like to repeat lead characters because one of the most pleasurable things in a book to me is learning about the lead.

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