Rodrigo Santoro Quotes

We're not one thing, as human beings, so any character that is written uni-dimensional, that's just a shallow character with shallow writing and shallow acting.

I never play a villain that I don't have something I can either do or say so the audience sees there is something redeemable about them. In other words, I don't want to do evil for evil's sake. I don't want to do Jason slasher movies. There's no point in that.

Even if I'm playing a bad guy, I work hard to make him multi-leveled and interesting.

I think the most interesting characters are those in which you can see both sides.

I think difficult characters are very rewarding to do. They often have facets to them and this and that.

I love to feature children and young adults as real people - flawed, naive, virtuous, venal - but real. I think it adds nuance and depth to the stories that wouldn't exist without them.

Nobody is all good or all bad.

I love to start characters in a place where you think you know them. We can make all kinds of assumptions about them and think they have no redeeming qualities, but like everyone, they're complex.

Sometimes, the smaller roles in movies can be the most interesting. If you only take the stance that you'll only play central characters in movies, you'll find yourself not being able to indulge in that morally grey terrain that makes support characters so rich and interesting.

No human being in history was all good or all bad, or all black or all white.

I don't like to play characters that are too perfect.

I like to show the grey area in all my characters.

Positive characterizations are complex characterizations. That's all we need to know. They shouldn't be saccharine. They shouldn't feel like medicine.

I believe strongly that characters are five-dimensional, and they're complicated, and life is complicated, and people are complicated.

There's more depth to Lionel. What I am finding so interesting about playing him is there's all these different layers. I prefer playing Lionel because he's a human being.

The darker the character, the more interesting.

Anyone who is drawn in broad strokes either negatively or positively is generally not very interesting to play.

I don't want to play a bad guy who doesn't have a bit of good in him.

As human beings, of course, we're all compromised and complex and contradictory and if a screenplay can express those contradictions within a character and if there's room for me to express them, that's a part I'd love to play, so much more than a character who is heroic and one-dimensional.

I'm very drawn to characters who are very flawed. I'm less interested in characters who are just good or bad, because to me then they're not real people.

The characters I've always been drawn to are real and flawed. That's not how women have always been portrayed.

It's very easy to approach a character like that - a so-called strong woman who overcomes the odds - and give a one-note performance, playing that strength alone. Strength is only one thing a person has.

Multifaceted and textured characters are always more intriguing to me. You never really just want to play one note. It becomes a bit monotone and boring.

You can't play a guy who's just a snake, because what do you draw on?

There's such a thing as being a little too perfect - a little too shiny. I know I prefer things that have room to breathe and give you a story, a world, in which you have the room to move around.