Liza Weil Quotes

One of the things that separates a good genre movie from a bad genre movie, I always think, ironically, is when you care about the people. The dime a dozen ones are where you don't have any awareness of the character.

People like the comedy more when they care about the characters.

I have to have a character worth caring about. I tend not to start writing books about people I don't have a lot of sympathy for because I'm just going to be with them too long.

I think you have to love the characters that you write. I don't know how you could possibly write a TV show where you didn't love the characters.

I try to trace the connection between the characters and that way a story or plot emerges.

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 get very invested in characters; it's the only way I find that I can write a book and really make it work.

I try to create characters people want to sit with, even if nothing is happening.

Every character, if fleshed out properly, is being taken seriously.

Great novels have great characterization no matter what. But multiple points of view let me examine characters from entirely different perspectives, allowing me to learn more about everyone in the process.

What makes an audience watch something and care about the characters is the emotional life of the characters.

You have to be involved and relate to the characters in order to make a film that is true emotionally.

I always try to make my characters people, and yet I always want to entertain.

Everybody has parents. As a dramatist, whenever you write a character, you must write their parents as well, even if the parents aren't there.

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

Normally when I'm sent a script I'll read it through to see how it hangs as a story and then I'll go back and read it through again and look at the character.

Supporting characters add depth to a story, and great actors leave their imprint with the audience.

I enjoy the writing process and producing; I enjoy seeing an idea come to fruition. I'm driven by very complex characters. You look at the pilot of 'Breaking Bad,' where there's so much depth to the character, you can't help but be invested when you watch.

I've been on the show for six years and I don't even know what her history is. I sort of make things up in my mind, but I think it's hard for an audience to follow and invest in a character when they don't have the details.

When a script moves me, I find that I immediately understand a character. Of course not completely, but I do understand.

'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 can always tell when a filmmaker doesn't care about his or her characters; they just care about setting them up to kill them off.

I don't think people are ever going to a place where they're like, 'I'm over stories about character and love.'

I do build my own backstory as an actor. It's important to know where your characters have come from in order to know where they're going - in order to exist in that state of being.