Antoine Fuqua Quotes

I enjoy bringing humanity to complex characters.

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.

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.

I can't be an arm candy to the hero. I need to play characters that have layers, that people can relate to.

Every paragraph should accomplish two goals: advance the story, and develop your characters as complex human beings.

Clever's not enough to hold me - I want characters who are more than devices to be moved about for Effect.

I remember when I was a kid, I loved Sherlock Holmes. I thought Arthur Conan Doyle was one of the greatest writers, because I felt I knew Sherlock Holmes. He existed to me. When I went to England the first thing I did was go to Baker Street to look for his house. I think you've got to try to make all of your characters as empathetic and realistic as possible.

Nice characters are boring!

In a story, for example, you'll start off with a character who is a little bit of a cartoon. That's not satisfying and you start revising. And as you revise you always are making it better by being specific and by observing more closely, which actually is really the same as saying you love your characters. The close observation equals love of them.

The best characters are always wretchedly flawed

When complicated characters aren't well drawn, they're boring.

That's what makes characters interesting. If Sherlock [Holmes] had started out being a straightforward man, we wouldn't be talking about him now. If he became one, that would be interesting. But you have to give him somewhere to go, as [Conan] Doyle did.

I think you're always afraid when you go into like a big superhero movie that it's gonna be kinda just action and you're not gonna be able to just really go to the bottom of the characters.

I suppose that the sympathetic/unsympathetic debate about characters sometimes feels to me like a misstatement of purpose. I always think of truly complex characters are falling between the cracks in that debate.

You have to have a good script. You have to have compelling and complicated characters that you want to hang out with. Also, since you're going to be living with your crew and cast, I think it's really critical to create a great working environment, because we're spending so many days, so many hours together.

I think I was always interested in darker characters just because there was a lot more to do.

I always try to make my characters people, and yet I always want to entertain.

When you're reading, like, a character's thoughts, or when it's in first person, you're reading kind of their own story, so you have the opportunity to see what makes that character complex or complicated. And to me, that's what the whole point of fiction is.

I just want to keep finding special characters that I feel like I can bring to life and characters that are real and not superficial.

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

I love making characters real and believable, through my own experience and choices.

I think often times on Joss Whedon's shows he can make you hate a character for a period and then love the character. He does it effortlessly.

As for dream roles, they usually just speak to you. I just crave complex characters.

I like complicated characters.

I do feel more towards certain characters who have depth and intelligence.