Cameron Britton Quotes

Characters can be mysterious and you're not really sure which way they might turn at a given point.

I like it when the deeper you go with the character, the more you see the layers start to peel away.

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.

I like complicated characters.

The more things remain obscure and mysterious, the more they interest me. I even try to find mystery in things that have none.

The darker the character, the more interesting.

The more secrets and twists in a character, the better.

I'm a walking, talking enigma.

That's what attracts me to the kind of characters I try and write - that they're not cut and dried.

I always respond to characters who have depth. I'm always interested in those people. They're the ones who surprise you.

I think all interesting characters have some kind of a complex.

I'm up and down and round about, Yet all the world can't find me out; Though hundreds have employed their leisure, They never yet could find my measure.

I love mysteries. To fall into a mystery and its danger ... everything becomes so intense in those moments. When most mysteries are solved, I feel tremendously let down. So I want things to feel solved up to a point, but there's got to be a certain percentage left over to keep the dream going. It's like at the end of Chinatown: The guy says, 'Forget it, Jake, it's Chinatown.' You understand it, but you don't understand it, and it keeps that mystery alive. That's the most beautiful thing.

I try to keep my characters raising more questions than giving answers. I don't want to leave too much on the table. I want you to have your connection and your secret understanding of the character.

I like characters with character, not just pretty faces. Anyway, I think people can be both grotesque and beautiful at the same time. Look at Mick Jagger in the seventies. Look at Angelina Jolie.

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

The best characters are the ones that somehow manage to be both attractive and repulsive at the same time. If you do that, you're at the center of the universe - if you can find characters who are more ambiguous and can raise more questions than answers.

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.

That's the thing with 'Lost': you can put a spin on so many things.

I always look for contradiction in a character.

I like to play characters that are convincing, that aren't just straightforward and nice.

I get drawn in when I feel there is something deep and mysterious going on beneath the surface of something.

The performances I enjoy are the ones that are hard to read or ambiguous or left-of-centre because it makes you look closer and that's what humans are like - quite mysterious creatures, hard to pinpoint.

One mysterious person looking at another mysterious person equals what? Another mystery.

A lot of the characters I end up playing have a certain degree of glamour or sexiness, but I like it when you can have some other element that makes it much more interesting.