Geoff Johns Quotes

Actually, I find it great fun to develop family series with lots of characters.

You treat characters like people you meet in life-friends or mentors.

Having to think so much about fictitious relationships that work or don't work, and with each relationship between characters managing to do one or other of those in its own peculiar way, I spend a lot of time thinking about relationships, real and imagined.

'Homeland' really is one of those shows where they start to write more or less depending on what's kind of going on in a relationship between characters.

I quite like some of the movies that have many characters in them.

I have things planned for every character like what they're doing down the road and coming to different realizations but I don't have how they overlap.

I'm tired of playing freaking cha-chas, the sassy CIA agent, the best friend homegirl. I'm tired of that!

The best shows are always the ones that are very, very low-concept and just about great characters.

The bedrock of 'Being Human' has to be characters. I would hope that even if suddenly we had a huge budget per episode, the foundation of the show, and the thing that actually makes it what it is, is character.

Everyone likes a bit of variety. I'm sure none of my readers only want to read about anti-heroes or villainous protagonists any more than they only want to read about square-jawed heroes doing the right thing. I just write characters than entertain me and hope they'll be ones that other people want to read about, too.

I always look for interesting, complex characters. You know, interesting, well-written material.

Any important series like 'Game of Thrones' or 'The Walking Dead' base their product around the characters and their background.

It's nice to see different dimensions of a character. A love interest and family life are always, I think, important in creating layers and textures.

The best stories, the most-fun 'Avengers' stories, explore the relationships between the characters.

When you're writing a team book where every character already has his or her own series, you don't have dominion over them as individuals - but what you can exploit is their relationships with one another.

When I write a team book, it's all about how they relate to each other and what they bring to the team and the book. Whether it's Black Canary and Huntress or Bane and Scandal, I look for a relationship that people can believe in, that they want to follow and learn more about.

I do just love the characters in sci-fi, but not necessarily the fact that it's sci-fi.

When you get into individual characters certainly there's been things that have been updated .

Also, as an author, character has always been what I'm most interested in - much more so than plot or setting, although those are good things too.

I tend to favour films that have multiple plot and story lines, multiple characters and ensemble pieces.

In a novel, it's hard to keep track of everybody.

I don't know quite how a story develops in my head. It is a bit chaotic. If I am working on a series, one of the main characters at least is already in existence as well as some setting and minor characters. Finding the other main character can be a challenge. Sometimes this character already exists in a minor role in another book.

I look for an interesting and often times, fresh character. Something different that what is done all the time or than I've done recently. I look at who is directing. Those two variables as well as a third, which is the content and the quality of the screenplay. I look at the arcs of the scenes and characters and relationships.

A lot of people have asked me about some of the characters that appear in 'Clockwork Prince,' like Aloysius Starkweather and Woolsey Scott. A lot of people like Woolsey Scott, which I was really happy about because he's very fun to write.

Third person allows a deeper exploration of the relationships between characters. We can see their misunderstandings and hear what they think about each other. We can create a more complex structure with various story threads running parallel.