Vijay Krishna Acharya Quotes

I don't want to watch a show or a movie about the guy who doesn't have any problems, who is sort of a goodie two shoes and just does everything morally right, because that's not the person I relate to. That's not who I am. That's not what anyone is.

With all the main characters that I write, it's always very important to me that they have good and bad aspects of their personality. It's important to me that they're complicated and that they're human.

If you're going to play human beings, and you're going to play them three-dimensionally, you have to show every side of them.

Very few of my characters are totally heroic or totally villainous.

I'm drawn to villains that are three-dimensional and raw and that I can kind of see in my own life.

I'm attracted to playing characters that have flaws.

We're all complex human beings, and if some of that complexity shows through, I think it's advantageous for the movie.

We're all flawed, and we all make mistakes, and we all have weaknesses. And those are the kind of people I want to see onscreen, the ones that feel like real flesh-and-blood human beings and not the weird, whitewashed, Hollywood stand-ins for people with the rough edges sanded off that I can't connect to because they just don't resonate with me.

I always liked characters that were more grounded in reality.

Some of my favorite shows are ones where the characters are vile and human and flawed. That's what makes me want to keep watching a show, not writers telling me how to feel about characters.

I believe strongly that characters are five-dimensional, and they're complicated, and life is complicated, and people are complicated.

I like playing flawed characters, people who aren't perfect.

As a reader, I much prefer to read a book where people embody all kinds of ideas and everybody is making mistakes.

I think any character has to be well-rounded, whether they are male or female - they have to be complex and make choices that maybe we don't agree with, you know? I guess that's what makes them human.

I prefer to work with grey characters rather than black and white.

I want to look at this character from all points of view. I know I don't want to make them all good or all bad or all anything... the story itself often helps create the character.

I love to make even villains people you can relate to. When you find out who did it, I think you almost like the person, which is not easy to do.

We all have dark sides to ourselves, and I want to portray that in a realistic way.

I tend to always love material with flawed protagonists and morally ambiguous people.

I think heroes who are not flawed are not believable.

It's very hard to play a man without any flaws.

I like fractured characters with human follies.

I like the realism of anti-heroes. It's a healthy thing. I think heroes can be very unhealthy at times because it doesn't connect you to reality.

If you are watching a fairy tale, that's why you go to fairy tales: you want these uncomplicated stories and uncomplicated characters. But if it's meant to be real life, you want there to be some reflection of your experience and have something you can hook into.

What's cool about 'Insecure' is it's very realistic and nuanced.