Luvvie Ajayi Quotes

Actors do movies because you want to make a connection; you want an audience to recognise themselves in what it is that you're depicting.

I'm interested in characters and relationships.

Whether it was 'Gangs Of Wasseypur' or whether it's 'LSTCK,' the characters are real, and when you see them on screen, you can identify with them.

If you create a good story that has a lot of story value... I think audiences like that. It's why they stick with the same TV show over and over.

I think I would struggle with any job if it was purely about effects. Even as a viewer, those aren't the kind of things that interest me. I think ultimately you have to be connected to characters and their relationships. Otherwise, it's not drama to me.

It's people politics, people dynamics that make a show really good, whether it's 'Desperate Housewives' or 'Lost' or 'The Sopranos.' It's the people we've grown to love or otherwise.

When I approach any script, I always try to find what I would relate to most in it.

'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.

As a viewer, I care about people, I care about characters, I care about perspective.

There's something about the alchemy of the show - the actors, the writers, the directors, the editors - that makes 'Parenthood' unique. You get so deeply embedded with these characters because you go through life with them, and that's our priority.

I don't think people are ever going to a place where they're like, 'I'm over stories about character and love.'

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.

In the end, drama is successful if you care about the people.

The producers felt that 24 would be good for the audience, to really get to know who these 12 and 12 are.

A lot of entertainment, and especially in a half-hour format, can be all jokes, all the time. And some of those jokes can be really, really funny, but what I respond to, as a viewers, is identification or caring about the characters.

Audiences need to engage with characters.

You have to present characters an audience can relate to.

If I want people to connect to my words and my stories, I need to tell them where they came from. Because then, when you break into song, they have kind of a blueprint for why I wrote that song, so they can come to it with something they went through that helps them connect to it.

All my characters have been relatable.

I hope to create characters that people want to watch - and they either want to be or are, or it's something that they recognize.

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

Television is about identifying with the characters.

In the 'Buffy' room, it was never about a plot twist, ever. It was always about, 'Tell the story, tell the characters, complicate their lives, make things get worse,' but we never worked backwards from the plot, and it was always a great lesson.

I think that talking about the personal specificity, personal details, is how you get the big, big audiences - by talking about your relationships or your personal tragedies. If you reach out with that energy, you'll touch people.