Kay Kay Menon Quotes

In terms of the parallels, I've never related less to a character than Riggan.

I tend to play characters that I can infuse with certain kinds of humour. Even the baddest guy can be funny in his own particular way. I want the audience to engage with the character on some deeper level so that they leave the cinema still thinking about him.

There's a bizarre insistence on how a story should be. 'The protagonist must be sympathetic!' they say. Whatever that means. I never engage in that discussion. I never use that word, 'sympathetic.' I just know 'interesting.'

Whenever people say they didn't like the main character of a book, they mean they didn't like the book. The main character has to be a friend? I don't get that.

If you can make a character likable that's not very nice, that's the challenge of the job.

But in film you always watch situations or stories that you really have no relation to. A lot of times just because there's no personal connection doesn't mean you can't connect with the film or the characters in the film.

To connect with the characters, you need to connect with the world. If the world feels vaguely familiar, I believe the characters will feel relatable.

You need the audience to become invested in the characters and in order to become invested, they need to identify with the characters... and that's why the characters need to be real.

I'm focused on finding characters I connect to.

I tend to find that movies have become so slick that I have trouble identifying with the characters.

What I need, as a reader, is a character with a heart and a voice and a pulse. I need a character so vivid and so specific that she doesn't feel like fiction.

Whether it was 'Gangs Of Wasseypur' or whether it's 'LSTCK,' the characters are real, and when you see them on screen, you can identify with them.

I hope to create characters that people want to watch - and they either want to be or are, or it's something that they recognize.

If we get caught up in a story, it's because we've started to care about the characters, and that can only happen if we've moved beneath the surface.

You spend so much time writing a character the way I did with Buddy Baker and then Green Arrow that you start to care about them. And you almost think of them as people, you know?

As a writer, you have to realize that people want to like the characters, so you have to be careful to keep them involved.

I tend to spend a lot of time building characters that the reader will believe in and sympathize with.

There's no rule that we have to like the characters movies are about.

It's really a misconception to identify the writer with the main character, given that the author creates all the characters in the book. In certain ways, I'm every character.

I'm not interested in the heroes or the villains. I'm interested in playing people.

When I approach any script, I always try to find what I would relate to most in it.

I think that characters who are nice all the time and who you sympathize with can get really boring.

If you don't care for the villain, if you don't love him and hate him at the same time, then he's just boring.

When it comes to films, people often don't differentiate between the message of a bad central character and the message of the film itself. They are two separate things.

People always tell me I'm nothing like my character. Well, hopefully not! He's a character who's very defined. He was purposefully written by Jo Rowling as very one-dimensional in the first few books, because you're supposed to hate him.