Saoirse Ronan Quotes

I am a firm believer that a good plot makes for a fun enough read, but it's not what binds us. If we don't care about the characters, we won't care - not in a lasting way - about what's happening to them.

I am good when there is something central about the character. There is always a human theme I attach myself to. I am really looking for something that is moving or enlightening or something with depth as an actor. I look for these kinds of roles.

Character development is what I value most as a reader of fiction. If an author can manage to create the sort of characters who feel fully real, who I find myself worrying about while I'm walking through the grocery store aisles a week later, that to me is as close to perfection as it gets.

The audience has to understand that if the film is going to have any meaning for them. If they are going to empathize with the characters, they have to visualize the process of concentration involved in making every move.

When you get into a film, it is one story and one set development of a character, and you are able to delve into one character for a short period of time and discover everything about them.

Your structure and format may not be perfect, and you may not have picked the perfect franchise, but if I pick up a script, and the characters are real, whole, complicated and come from a place of somebody who really is feeling it, that's what people remember.

I've always felt, even with sketches, that if you don't care about these people, then it doesn't matter.

I'm focused on finding characters I connect to.

It's always incredible though when you feel like the writer knows the character intimately and can see their life sprawling away outside of the show.

What makes an audience watch something and care about the characters is the emotional life of the characters.

In a series, you really need to stay open-minded. It's not like a play or a film, where you can create and fully commit to your character's back-story.

The world is full of novels in which characters simply say and do. There are certainly legitimate genres in which this is sufficient. But in real and lasting writing the character is.

It always helps me connect with characters, to think about what music they respond to.

I think you have to love the characters that you write. I don't know how you could possibly write a TV show where you didn't love the characters.

The most I could hope for is to come and try and develop a character who is interesting, who is interesting to me, who is interesting to fans and who could contribute to the storytelling that is 'Law & Order: SVU.'

The action genre is not always the most synonymous with character development.

When a script moves me, I find that I immediately understand a character. Of course not completely, but I do understand.

'Longmire' is more of a show about the characters, and you couldn't pay a bigger compliment than to want to know more about my character, or the characters on the show.

I spend a lot of time with my characters.

I can always tell when a filmmaker doesn't care about his or her characters; they just care about setting them up to kill them off.

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.

I think the ultimate thing in some ways for any writer is to work on a character who's going to have a life for a long time.

I wanted more in depth ideas about the character and it never came.

My favorite roles usually have to do with the story, if it's a good story I usually enjoy doing the character.

For me to have the opportunity to stay with one character for, God willing, a long period of time, is really exciting.