Guillermo Diaz Quotes

All of my characters are less than perfect.

I don't think being flawed is a bad thing for a character... nor do I think it's a bad thing for a person in life, because that's how we all are.

I'm always much more interested in flawed heroes than in perfect ones.

I think we love watching people that are flawed because we're all flawed.

I like fractured characters with human follies.

The characters are whole, real people to me that I'm getting to know, and since real people are all flawed, so are my characters, I hope.

To recognize yourself in a character onscreen, and to connect with them, you gotta recognize their flaws; they gotta feel like a real person.

I try to write about real women, real people - in other words flawed characters.

To me the interesting main character is never the one without flaws.

I don't want a perfect character, I want a character who has, as strange as it sounds, some humanity, some flaws, some needs.

I think people who have faults are a lot more interesting than people who are perfect.

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

You don't want to play a perfect person; no one cares about that.

As an audience member, I live vicariously through the characters I watch or read about. There's something very relatable about comic-book characters. They're never perfect. They're flawed people put in extraordinary circumstances.

When it comes to your hero, what the readers really fall in love with are his flaws. No one ever falls in love with a perfect hero.

There's this thing in Hollywood about the sympathetic character and likability. I've never understood that because the people I love most in my life are not likable all the time. My wife is not always likable. I'm certainly not always likable. My dad is not always likable. We're human beings.

I choose grey characters, as I enjoy playing a human character. I don't shy away from showing the shortcomings of my characters.

All my characters are quite relatable, as they are flawed, true, and honest. All of us are flawed; nobody is pure and pious.

The more shaded, flawed characters that are struggling, I think there's something very relatable about that.

If people cannot be flawed in fiction there's no place left for us to be human.

I don't like to play characters that are too perfect.

If I'm reading a script, and I'm not buying it, I need to be able to relate to the character on some level, and they need to have more than one dimension. I need to have an idea of what this guy's thinking about when he's taking a shower not on camera. And if I can't picture him taking a shower and getting dressed, then he's not a real person.

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've always wanted my characters to have more dimension and realistic cores than the ingenue material often provides. It's been a challenge.

What I'm mainly interested in is not having women characters that have to be perfect, obviously. That's something I feel strongly about and have that in every single thing I've ever done.