Emma Thompson Quotes

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

The loveliest roles, for me, have a growth arc - a beginning, a middle, and an end - and I'm always grateful when I can find one of those emotional journeys.

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 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.

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.

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.

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

Filmmaking is always sort of building a mosaic of this arc of what the character is going through.

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

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

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.

I suppose with any good writing and interesting characters, you can have that awfully overused word: a journey.

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 think what is nice about 'Elf,' and why it doesn't play as one long sketch, is that the character actually grows up during the course of the film. It's not just a character that you can keep checking in on and keep doing sketches about. It's a story. I'm pretty proud of how we told it.

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.

Being able to stay with a character over the course of years is a gift.

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.

Characters develop as the book progresses, but any that start to bore me end up in the wastepaper basket. In real life, we may have to put up with tedious people, but not in novels.

I feel like if a film is well-written, then the character's arc is complete. There really is very little room to expand on that afterwards.

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