Martin Landau Quotes

One pleasure of working on a trilogy is watching characters warp and grow over time.

I think everybody goes through changes, and the same should be said for fictional characters, especially ones that you follow on television.

For me, one thing I love is having an arc for a character.

I think what good television does well is that it shows characters evolving.

My character on 'The Good Wife' is a smaller character, and his story arcs are typically season-long, unless it's a big episode for him. His transitions take place over many, many hours.

I tend to relate to a character in terms of the arc: what's interesting is where he starts versus where he ends up.

After a while, the character sort of took over.

Being able to stay with a character over the course of years is a gift.

I'm trying to make all the characters change and grow, or regress.

There's something pretty awesome about staying with a character and growing.

Plot makes the character just as history makes the man.

Novels demand a certain complexity of narrative and scope, so it's necessary for the characters to change.

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

With a series, you build the character as you go. When you've got a shorter project or a film, you know the overall arc from the beginning.

You have 22 episodes to start from zero to hero; you can really take a nice, big, long arc. In a film, it's tough to do that - you only have 90 minutes.

I remember always feeling lucky with Zoey on 'Nurse Jackie' that... she was new at the very beginning. So that gave her everywhere to go.

I love doing a series because you get to see changes in a character and see her grow. It's a journey with change, and you don't get to see that long-term type of development with just a film.

Audiences are just like us as writers - we grow attached to characters. In certain ways you don't want them to change.

In film, because you know where the ending is, characters can change, but in television, you substitute revelation for change, and that can be hard to pull off.

I love seeing a story evolve over several books and watching characters develop.

Every film you're commissioned to write is all about an arc; usually, the arc is that the world creates a change in the character, usually for the better. To not have an arc, the messages and ideas in the film became more prominent.

There is always that thought that you might get stuck with a character. But there's always the notion that every character is always evolving.

I'd never really been in a series, where you see a man at different points and perspectives in his life. Usually it's a film, where I'm playing a character who just comes in and offers something up.

I've often said the reader knows every bit as much about Thorne as I do. When I created him for 'Sleepyhead,' I was determined he should be a character who would develop, book by book, change and grow as we all do, and who - crucially - would be unpredictable.

My books usually end where they began. I try to bring characters back to a point that is familiar but different because of the growth that they have gone through.