Fred Kaplan Quotes

For better or worse, I am as fascinated with human flaws as anything.

The hero is changing in Bollywood, and I approach a hero's role like a character by focusing on its weaknesses. I feel the weaknesses of a character make them more alive, relatable, and human.

No author ever drew a character consistent to human nature, but he was forced to ascribe to it many inconsistencies.

We're all flawed, and we all make mistakes, and we all have weaknesses. And those are the kind of people I want to see onscreen, the ones that feel like real flesh-and-blood human beings and not the weird, whitewashed, Hollywood stand-ins for people with the rough edges sanded off that I can't connect to because they just don't resonate with me.

Well, uh, all people - all, I think all human begins, uh, have good attributes, and they also have their flaws.

I work very hard at creating complex characters, a mix of positives and negatives. They are all flawed. I believe flaws are almost universal, and they help us understand, sympathise and, paradoxically, feel closer to such characters.

I don't want a perfect character, I want a character who has, as strange as it sounds, some humanity, some flaws, some needs.

I think people who have faults are a lot more interesting than people who are perfect.

I think any character has to be well-rounded, whether they are male or female - they have to be complex and make choices that maybe we don't agree with, you know? I guess that's what makes them human.

Everyone loves characters that are relatable or who have unique quirks or tragic flaws.

With all the main characters that I write, it's always very important to me that they have good and bad aspects of their personality. It's important to me that they're complicated and that they're human.

I like fractured characters with human follies.

All of the Marvel characters have flaws to them; all of them have a deep humanity to them.

I've always been interested in our flaws as human beings, just as much as the virtues.

A forte always makes a foible.

There are some weaknesses that are peculiar and distinctive to generous characters, as freckles are to a fair skin.

Money doesn't change men, it merely unmasks them. If a man is naturally selfish or arrogant or greedy, the money brings that out, that's all.

Absurdity is one of the most human things about us: a manifestation of our most advanced and interesting characteristics.

How can you blame a person for his fears and weaknesses unless you have felt the same and done differently?

Did you ever notice how easy it is to forgive a person any number of faults for one endearing characteristic, for a certain style, or some commitment to life - while someone with many good qualities is insupportable for a single defect if it happens to be a boring one?

Long ago I'd said that I am "fascinated by the phantasmagoria of human personality" - this is perhaps even truer now than years ago.

Mankind is made up of inconsistencies, and no man acts invariably up to his predominant character. The wisest man sometimes acts weakly, and the weakest sometimes wisely.

What makes a strong female character is a character who has weaknesses, who has flaws, who is maybe not immediately likable, but eventually relatable.

I'm a people's person, believe it or not. I just have a dark side to me, which we all do.

A man's foibles are what makes him lovable.