Edward Norton 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.

Every actor wants to have a character that changes, that has some kind of movement, that gets from point A to point B, that doesn't just supply one note.

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.

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

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.

In TV, you may think your character's one thing for two episodes, and then the third episode it could be something different.

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

Usually when you have a sequel, the character always stays the same and that's true basically of 'Rocky III,' 'IV' and 'V.' He didn't really change.

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

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

I like a character that is still alive and is necessarily thinking, and either grows or diminishes or whatever.

With any project, but especially in television, I always try to look at where the character is starting from and where he's going to end up, and try to find the biggest arc that makes it the most exciting to play.

The Duffers like that; they like watching their characters grow.

As you do on any cable series, if they introduce you as the villain, then you better start working towards making him a really good guy, or if they introduce you as a really good guy, then you better start working towards being the villain. Your character has to go somewhere, or else they become very uninteresting.

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.

Film is so much to do with perfection and how differently you can feel about someone at the beginning of the film and the end of the film.

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.

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'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.

After a while, the character sort of took over.

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

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

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.

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.