Lucas Hedges Quotes

I think, when I write, one of the things that I'm really attempting to do is I'm attempting to humanize my characters.

I don't like having characters as props. I never want a character to be a prop.

Finding the voice of a character, no matter who it is - from Black Widow to Han Solo - is the first and most important hurdle for me to cross in any work of fiction.

I want to play characters that are interesting to watch.

What I truly get excited about is not the genre of a movie or the size of a part - it's character. I like to find characters.

To give a character life in a short space of time, it helps if you arrive on screen with a past.

So I work hard to present the human side of my characters while not neglecting the plot.

I try to talk about things I know about. But my characters are more of a combination of people or how I imagine people would feel.

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

I take stuff from real life and try to make a character out of it. And I try to live the world of the characters a little bit.

I can tell very early on, reading a script, within six or seven pages, whether I'm looking at real people, and whether I can see and hear real people.

I want to give my characters nuance.

Definitely later on in the 'Life is Strange' season one recording, we were all pretty tuned into who these characters were. There wasn't a whole lot of finagling that needed to be done, I don't think.

All you ever really want is a great character and great writing. As an actor, that's the juiciest sandwich you could ever ask for.

One of the things that separates a good genre movie from a bad genre movie, I always think, ironically, is when you care about the people. The dime a dozen ones are where you don't have any awareness of the character.

Dialogue is the place that books are most alive and forge the most direct connection with readers. It is also where we as writers discover our characters and allow them to become real.

Writing can give full meaning to characters and avoid pure stereotype.

In terms of the pilot, you have to introduce a lot of characters in a very short period of time, and you have to paint with slightly broad brush strokes because you just need to give an audience an idea of who these people might be.

I love... What's gratifying to me is when you make/create a character and a human being, a person who lives entirely and who has their own existence, just merely from the words on a page.

What is more important is finding the soul of the character, and making sure it fits well into this story. And that it be dramatic and interesting and captivating, because these people weren't entertainers, you know.

The instant that movies became described as character driven was the instant when characters stopped mattering in movies. In other words, the birth of the notion of the character-driven movie coincided with the birth of movies in which characters were incidental to the very activities in which they engaged.

And I have the support of the writers: I have a great relationship with the creative team, and they have a good hold of my character and my personality, and they come up with some great stuff, and I'm forever trying to change it up, keep it fresh.

My first job is to write the characters as full and authentic people as well as I can.

Originally, I thought, 'Gollum's such a fantastic character, why are you doing him CG? Surely you need to be able to humanise him as much as possible - he's so full of pathos and real emotion.'

It's hard to know whether certain characters come to life or not, they either come to have their own life or they don't. I've written many things in which the characters just remain inert.