Adrian McKinty Quotes

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

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

In the writers' room, when we talk about each episode, we first talk about the character journey of the episode.

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.

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.

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.

I can never kind of fathom a character's journey beyond the moment when you go to black, any more than when people ask me what Jason Patric did with the tape recorder at the end of 'Narc,' you know what I mean? Even in 'Blood, Guts,' like, what happens down the road with these characters?

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.

I like books that have razor-sharp plotting that snaps and moves along. It's not about the main character being different at the end. I don't want my main character to be different in the end. I still want him committed to his ideas, to be steadfast, true and loyal.

I consciously try to end my novels at a point where I won't have to wonder about my characters ever again.

Plot makes the character just as history makes the man.

The only problem with the way they do my character is that they have her get redeemed too early.

Filmmaking is always sort of building a mosaic of this arc of what the character is going through.

Characters develop as the book progresses, but any that start to bore me end up in the wastepaper basket. In real life, we may have to put up with tedious people, but not in novels.

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.

No, I won't ever write another 'Lily Bard.' I said everything I had to say about Lily.

I feel like if a film is well-written, then the character's arc is complete. There really is very little room to expand on that afterwards.

When I read a script or I see a character, I don't necessarily see the arc of her, that by the end she is this person, she's different from she was in the beginning. I guess it's more a subconscious understanding of that arc.

I look for roles where there is some kind of an arc to the story.

Whenever you're blessed and given a second season, you can really let the characters evolve. That first season, you're setting everything up. It's background, where they're coming from, what they want to do. And then you get to marinate in it that second season.

The emotions of the actors are better when they understand the chronological factors that are adding to the story.

Lucifer likes to have fun, but we need to make sure that he's also rooted in a proper journey. For the first few episodes after a pilot, you're just trying to establish your world and the starting points for your characters. But I feel like, as the stakes went up, the 'Lucifer' veneer got less and less.

What you would call a 'lead,' I've always considered a supporting part, and what people would call 'supporting parts,' I've considered leads. In a way, I look at it in reverse, because supporting parts - when they're done correctly - are the ones that are progenitors for storylines, to move forward.

In the English books, the American kids' books, typically, there is a problem, the characters grapple with that problem, and the problem is resolved.

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.