Angela Kinsey Quotes

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

I think often times on Joss Whedon's shows he can make you hate a character for a period and then love the character. He does it effortlessly.

Well, I don't think characters change. I think they become more revealed. I don't think you really can change a character on a show.

Characters do change over time; there are surprises, role reversals, and things like that.

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'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.

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

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

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

When you can have a character that the audience likes from the beginning, but then you put them in a situation where they grow - I think that gives it a lot of heart.

I always think change is important in a character. The most dynamic choices that you can make for a character are always the best ones.

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

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 care more, and I think readers do also, for characters in a state of transformation.

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.

Main characters should grow and change during the course of a story.

I like my characters to go through some changes during a story arc.

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

It's nice to create a character, not just within two scenes, but within the journey of a whole movie. It's fun to do that.

I'm not sure Kinsey has changed in these first twelve books. I think the reader learns more about her, but from Kinsey's perspective, only three years have passed while the rest of us have been getting older at a much faster clip.

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.

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.