Sada Thompson Quotes

From a writer's standpoint, each character and story presents its own unique challenges and delights. I'm deeply curious about all of my characters, and I love peeling away their layers to see what's underneath their skin, or secreted deep within their hearts.

I like complicated characters.

That's the novelist's job: to peel back the layers and look underneath.

Whenever I have tried to make a character bad, they end up being good in some way.

Personally, I've made myself a very small window of what I enjoy in this business, which is I love being a big part of the storytelling process.

I love to start characters in a place where you think you know them. We can make all kinds of assumptions about them and think they have no redeeming qualities, but like everyone, they're complex.

I learnt to love reading. And then I started scribbling stories, and I liked that even more.

I've still got lots of writing in me. I have not left journalism, but I put it on hold to focus on acting. I love actors. I think it's a crazy thing to do with your life, and I have a tremendous amount of respect for them.

I think the great thing about characters is the ways that they can be surprising. I mean, sometimes you think you've got a lock on a personality, even just in life, and then they'll shock you by their behavior.

The novelist must ground his work in faithful study of human nature.

There's got to be something you want to tell and that's the engine which spurs all of the work you have to do in order to create the story, but you have to love some sort of nugget of what you're telling to be a filmmaker.

I think that you have to keep the reader front and centre if you're going to write something that people are going to love and be entertained by.

I love it when you like a character, and then she does something you don't like, and you hate her for a while - then you love her again. I'd like to see her have unlikable moments that the audience understands and sympathizes with.

We're all complex human beings, and if some of that complexity shows through, I think it's advantageous for the movie.

I want to work with anyone who's passionate about telling a story. I obviously have a list of people I really love, but it's a really long list.

I have never played a role in which someone's dark side shouldn't be explored.

Plot is a framework on which to drape other things. So once that's working, I can just let it go and do all the stuff that I love - 'Trojan horse' it. There are so many great YA heroines, and that's fantastic, but what about the emotionally complex boy out there? That's who I tend to write about.

I, as a fan of numerous TV shows and movies, know that people mess up. The characters that we love are not always going to act in the ways that we want them to. That's what makes them interesting.

Shakespeare's villains are fabulous because none of them know that they are villains. Well, sometimes they do.

As a writer, as much as I try, I can't stop writing female characters. They have so much more to offer; they have to wear so many different hats. There's so much wonderful gray matter in a female's life that it just makes for a stronger character.

I get to do what I love every day. I get to crawl into someone else's head and I love that.

Because I never plan anything out ahead of time, I'm always in the process of learning about my characters. Without a biographical sketch to guide me, I discover things about my heroines as the stories unfold. Only in 'Body Double' did I discover that Maura's mother was a serial killer.

I always look for interesting, complex characters. You know, interesting, well-written material.

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

I love to evoke the bones and meat and thoughts of characters.