Sam Underwood Quotes

Everyone likes a bit of variety. I'm sure none of my readers only want to read about anti-heroes or villainous protagonists any more than they only want to read about square-jawed heroes doing the right thing. I just write characters than entertain me and hope they'll be ones that other people want to read about, too.

It's nice to see different dimensions of a character. A love interest and family life are always, I think, important in creating layers and textures.

I think my best quality as a writer is the ability to craft complicated, nuanced, interesting characters.

I feel like a lot of characters on TV don't have the time to tell that many aspects of a character's story and personality.

I want to give my characters nuance.

Look at the Coen brothers. All their minor characters are as interesting as their protagonists. If the smaller characters are well-written, the whole world of the film becomes enriched. It's not the size of the thing, but the detail.

The best shows are always the ones that are very, very low-concept and just about great characters.

The bedrock of 'Being Human' has to be characters. I would hope that even if suddenly we had a huge budget per episode, the foundation of the show, and the thing that actually makes it what it is, is character.

I try to create characters that I am fascinated by on some level or intrigued by or can't stand.

When you begin a play, you're going to have to spend a lot of time with those characters, so those characters are going to have to be rich enough that you want to take a very long journey with them. That's how I begin thinking about what I want to write about and who I want to write about.

You have to add some sort of dimension to each of your characters because everyone has their own layers.

I want to do interesting characters with depth, which are a part of great stories. In fact, if the character is quirky and challenging, that's even better.

My books are primarily plot driven but the best plot in the world is useless if you don't populate them with characters that readers can care about.

'Longmire' is more of a show about the characters, and you couldn't pay a bigger compliment than to want to know more about my character, or the characters on the show.

I spend a lot of time with my characters.

I try to distinguish my characters from each other.

The characters, to me, in 'Homeland' are not one note in any way.

I wanted more in depth ideas about the character and it never came.

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.

The thing I respond to the most is just great writing, interesting characters. I like to think that there is something fun about playing a character that has a lot of authority in her own life.

What I'm really trying to do is create unique characters.

To me, the struggle is to try to make a less-well-written or less-well-rounded character and find who they are. If you really get it, and it's all on the page, then it's really just gonna pop out at you.

I didn't want to just do a show where my character stood out and other characters were flat or one-to-two-dimensional. I wanted everybody to have meat.

This may sound strange, but although I feel like I know everything about my characters, the brand of shampoo they use, how many cavities they have, their greatest fear, I don't actually see their faces.

Scripts that make characters a two-sentence description, I'm not interested in.