Danai Gurira Quotes

I like fractured characters with human follies.

I like characters with flaws, who have shadow.

I'm interested in flawed protagonists. I was raised on them.

I like characters who have faults. I'm drawn to darker people.

I've always been interesting in characters that challenge people and who are not always that easy to like.

The thing that I like about the way characters are written on the show these days is that nobody's perfect. Everyone has made a lot of mistakes and bad choices.

I'm attracted to playing characters that have flaws.

I love it when you like a character, and then she does something you don't like, and you hate her for a while - then you love her again. I'd like to see her have unlikable moments that the audience understands and sympathizes with.

I think that characters who are nice all the time and who you sympathize with can get really boring.

The bad guys are not typical; they are not just bad, they are interesting. They might be good or bad.

All of my characters are less than perfect.

I work very hard at creating complex characters, a mix of positives and negatives. They are all flawed. I believe flaws are almost universal, and they help us understand, sympathise and, paradoxically, feel closer to such characters.

I, as a fan of numerous TV shows and movies, know that people mess up. The characters that we love are not always going to act in the ways that we want them to. That's what makes them interesting.

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

As a reader, I much prefer to read a book where people embody all kinds of ideas and everybody is making mistakes.

What I always studied in screenwriting from my mentor John Glavin was that the most interesting characters are characters with shades of gray.

I think any character has to be well-rounded, whether they are male or female - they have to be complex and make choices that maybe we don't agree with, you know? I guess that's what makes them human.

You know, we have to take these characters - who, granted, have their separate personalities but, on a lot of levels, are pretty two-dimensional - and make them into people with flaws, with insecurities.

No characters in 'Stay Close,' including the leads, are black and white. I want them to be grey. I think that makes for a much more interesting reading experience, something that will stay with you a little bit longer.

I tend to always love material with flawed protagonists and morally ambiguous people.

Fallible characters are more interesting than superheroes in the end.

I like the characters that have some redeeming quality or if it's interesting to me in any way.

I like the realism of anti-heroes. It's a healthy thing. I think heroes can be very unhealthy at times because it doesn't connect you to reality.

It's really interesting to play someone you wouldn't want to ever spend more than a couple of drinks with - but who has redeemable characteristics.

I think all interesting characters have some kind of a complex.