Bobby Roode Quotes

If you give a character room to breathe, they come alive.

I want to give my characters nuance.

Movie characters rarely get to think out loud or talk very much about their emotions. Instead they have to, very briefly, show their feelings through their action or through dialog.

The world is full of novels in which characters simply say and do. There are certainly legitimate genres in which this is sufficient. But in real and lasting writing the character is.

Whether you're writing a horror show or a James Bond film, I think what bubbles beneath is interesting characterization. The colors that emerge through storytelling is what a dramatist does. There's always got to be something bubbling underneath that will erupt at some point.

If you can just actually let the character be for a bit, then you get the right sense.

The instant that movies became described as character driven was the instant when characters stopped mattering in movies. In other words, the birth of the notion of the character-driven movie coincided with the birth of movies in which characters were incidental to the very activities in which they engaged.

And I have the support of the writers: I have a great relationship with the creative team, and they have a good hold of my character and my personality, and they come up with some great stuff, and I'm forever trying to change it up, keep it fresh.

Originally, I thought, 'Gollum's such a fantastic character, why are you doing him CG? Surely you need to be able to humanise him as much as possible - he's so full of pathos and real emotion.'

I like character-driven stuff. It doesn't matter, the size of the part.

I want to play characters that are interesting to watch.

My books are primarily plot driven but the best plot in the world is useless if you don't populate them with characters that readers can care about.

The characters are always the focal point of a book for me, whether I'm writing or reading. I may enjoy a book that has an intriguing mystery or a good plot, but to become one of my real favorites, it has to have great characters.

I seem to have to make my characters family before I can access their hearts in any way that matters.

'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.

I love series television because it's so much fun to have that much opportunity to paint the character.

You really have to create everything in order to come away with a full human being on screen.

I'm very much about stories that are fast but character development that moves slow.

I am a firm believer that a good plot makes for a fun enough read, but it's not what binds us. If we don't care about the characters, we won't care - not in a lasting way - about what's happening to them.

To give a character life in a short space of time, it helps if you arrive on screen with a past.

I try to build a full personality for each of our cartoon characters - to make them personalities.

So I work hard to present the human side of my characters while not neglecting the plot.

One of the things that I've been trying to do with my characters, one of the things that does lead to me turning things down, is I don't really want to repeat myself.

To create a fully formed character full of life, struggle, and humanity is tough.