Richard Fleeshman Quotes

It is quite different, but I love doing a series because you get to live with a character for a much longer amount of time. And the other aspect of it is that you have a steady job.

I think it's really great to be able to stick with a character for a long period of time. It's not like you have one shot, and that's it.

I look for roles where there is some kind of an arc to the story.

What's fun about doing a series is you get to take some time to create the character.

Whenever you're blessed and given a second season, you can really let the characters evolve. That first season, you're setting everything up. It's background, where they're coming from, what they want to do. And then you get to marinate in it that second season.

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

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.

My character on 'The Good Wife' is a smaller character, and his story arcs are typically season-long, unless it's a big episode for him. His transitions take place over many, many hours.

There's something really satisfying if you've created a bunch of characters that have withstood 25 episodes.

In the initial season of a show, you're figuring out your character and their life and their background and you're putting together all the chapters of the book.

I usually dislike second books in series. The only second installment I ever loved was 'The Empire Strikes Back,' and I think that was wonderful because it evolved the characters while not seeming like a bridge.

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.

My books usually end where they began. I try to bring characters back to a point that is familiar but different because of the growth that they have gone through.

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

Being able to stay with a character over the course of years is a gift.

In TV, you may think your character's one thing for two episodes, and then the third episode it could be something different.

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

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.

Plot makes the character just as history makes the man.

It's fun to grow with a character over the course of a TV series. Video games are usually a much more condensed process.

I kind of thought the writers were starting to take Taylor and make her kind of down and dirty.

Filmmaking is always sort of building a mosaic of this arc of what the character is going through.

For me to have the opportunity to stay with one character for, God willing, a long period of time, is really exciting.