Charlotte Ritchie Quotes

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

I think it's important that a director be able to know his characters inside and out.

'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.

When you get into a film, it is one story and one set development of a character, and you are able to delve into one character for a short period of time and discover everything about them.

I always find that really interesting, you know, when I get to see characters that I love in TV and film and theater around their family.

I've always felt, even with sketches, that if you don't care about these people, then it doesn't matter.

Detailing and backstories are so important; only they draw you into the life of a character.

There is nothing like being able to develop a three-dimensional character over a long period of time. Sometimes you aren't able to fully portray a character because you only have a couple of scenes to do it in, and you don't get the full life and background of that character.

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.

I like my characters to be ones I think about long after I've finished reading the script.

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.

The most I could hope for is to come and try and develop a character who is interesting, who is interesting to me, who is interesting to fans and who could contribute to the storytelling that is 'Law & Order: SVU.'

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

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.

The life of a character doesn't just exist between action and cut.

When I create a character, it happens in layers. The more I write and revise, the better I understand the characters.

I try to begin with a strong grasp of my characters. Even if it's schematic, I need it clear in my head who these people are.

A lot of times in movies, especially in sequels, the characters become caricatures and just sort of improv machines and joke machines, rather than people you can actually connect to.

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.

I wanted more in depth ideas about the character and it never came.

I am good when there is something central about the character. There is always a human theme I attach myself to. I am really looking for something that is moving or enlightening or something with depth as an actor. I look for these kinds of roles.

I love to evoke the bones and meat and thoughts of characters.

To me, the struggle is to try to make a less-well-written or less-well-rounded character and find who they are. If you really get it, and it's all on the page, then it's really just gonna pop out at you.

When you create a character, you create it for yourself - you do whatever you want. It's your job to explore it in as many different avenues as you can in order to make it a fully wounded character.