Sue Grafton Quotes

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

I don't know if it's that the scripts are evolving or just that I'm getting older, but the characters become more interesting as you get older because you've lived more life at different stages. You've loved; you've lost; you have more of that journey.

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.

There is always that thought that you might get stuck with a character. But there's always the notion that every character is always evolving.

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.

There's something pretty awesome about staying with a character and growing.

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.

If you change a character too much, the audience falls out of love with the character, but characters need to evolve and grow over the years.

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.

For me, one thing I love is having an arc for a character. I love being able to see a character go through something and to learn.

Keep your central character moving, discovering, learning.

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 calmed down, certainly, from the days of being 18, but I'm still having a good time.

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.

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.

If you live long enough, you'll experience everything.

As time goes by and you're getting older and stuff like that - getting older sucks. You know, I hear all this crap about, 'Oh, you can age with dignity.' Really?

I think what good television does well is that it shows characters evolving.