Joe Madureira Quotes

I work very hard at creating complex characters, a mix of positives and negatives. They are all flawed. I believe flaws are almost universal, and they help us understand, sympathise and, paradoxically, feel closer to such characters.

The characters are whole, real people to me that I'm getting to know, and since real people are all flawed, so are my characters, I hope.

To me the interesting main character is never the one without flaws.

When it comes to your hero, what the readers really fall in love with are his flaws. No one ever falls in love with a perfect hero.

I don't want a perfect character, I want a character who has, as strange as it sounds, some humanity, some flaws, some needs.

I like playing flawed characters, people who aren't perfect.

I love flawed characters, male or female, and I only want to talk about flawed characters, really, in what I do.

Fallible characters are more interesting than superheroes in the end.

I let characters be human and flawed and relatable.

I love to feature children and young adults as real people - flawed, naive, virtuous, venal - but real. I think it adds nuance and depth to the stories that wouldn't exist without them.

I'm drawn to villains that are three-dimensional and raw and that I can kind of see in my own life.

I'm attracted to playing characters that have flaws.

We're all flawed, and we all make mistakes, and we all have weaknesses. And those are the kind of people I want to see onscreen, the ones that feel like real flesh-and-blood human beings and not the weird, whitewashed, Hollywood stand-ins for people with the rough edges sanded off that I can't connect to because they just don't resonate with me.

I think we love watching people that are flawed because we're all flawed.

When you're building a character, or at least when I'm building a character, you start saying, 'How am I going to make people like him?'

Flaws make us all human, and you're rooting for characters because of those flaws. It's ageless if you're interested in relationships and the way people can or can't relate to each other.

I think any character has to be well-rounded, whether they are male or female - they have to be complex and make choices that maybe we don't agree with, you know? I guess that's what makes them human.

I tend to find characters who lack vulnerability dull.

You don't want to play a perfect person; no one cares about that.

With all the main characters that I write, it's always very important to me that they have good and bad aspects of their personality. It's important to me that they're complicated and that they're human.

I'm trying to make really flawed characters that have got redeeming features so people can say, 'I don't really like that character, but I can understand a bit where they've come from.'

You can't play a guy who's just a snake, because what do you draw on?

I think heroes who are not flawed are not believable.

I like fractured characters with human follies.

All of the Marvel characters have flaws to them; all of them have a deep humanity to them.