Laura Vandervoort Quotes

When you get into individual characters certainly there's been things that have been updated .

I like tragedies, whether they're sci-fi or something else, but I can't say I know much about any genre in particular.

I quite like some of the movies that have many characters in them.

Any important series like 'Game of Thrones' or 'The Walking Dead' base their product around the characters and their background.

In some ways, I don't consider a single Hap and Leonard novel the best, but I consider them my best characters.

Also, as an author, character has always been what I'm most interested in - much more so than plot or setting, although those are good things too.

Actually, I find it great fun to develop family series with lots of characters.

A lot of people have asked me about some of the characters that appear in 'Clockwork Prince,' like Aloysius Starkweather and Woolsey Scott. A lot of people like Woolsey Scott, which I was really happy about because he's very fun to write.

You decide which characters you want and then do the best you can to bring their humanity to the forefront in the context that you place them in - the crises in which you've placed them.

I think supporting casts in comics are missing. I think a lot of the time in comics, all we have are people in costumes talking to other people in costumes, superheroes talking to superheroes and supervillains, and that's it.

You treat characters like people you meet in life-friends or mentors.

I've always loved shows that combine both approaches - that have a mythology and a set of characters, whose stories develop and change, and where the relationships evolve and fracture.

Having to think so much about fictitious relationships that work or don't work, and with each relationship between characters managing to do one or other of those in its own peculiar way, I spend a lot of time thinking about relationships, real and imagined.

But I also wanted to give them an intelligent emotional journey, without having to suspend reality - to be able to look at those characters and see reasons for the relationships and why what happens happens.

It's really about, oh come on, this guy wouldn't say that or he wouldn't do that, you know, it's about the characters, about the story, about the situation.

Stories are great, but at the end of the day, you remember that moment and that moment and that moment. 'The Avengers' had all of this great, giant action, but for all of the clever dialogue, it's the moments.

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 like shows that are ensemble-based, that explore the humanity of every character.

One of the things you have to be acutely aware of when shooting episodes out of order is your character's relationship with the other characters.

'Junkhearts' is a great story.

The producers felt that 24 would be good for the audience, to really get to know who these 12 and 12 are.

Dialogue is something I don't get a lot of on 'Game of Thrones.'

I think it's refreshing to have a character-driven 'Batman' story that isn't just about action and getting out of scrapes.

You don't go around thinking about how characters in a movie, in the stories you make up, relate to people in general.

I'm interested in characters and relationships.