Corey Hawkins Quotes

I like taking a character at the most intense moments of their lives and exploring all that in full and then moving on.

'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.

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.

I locate that special problem in a character and then try to understand it. That's the genesis of all my work.

Any time you get to dig deeper into your character, you welcome it, especially on a TV show.

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.'

Any time you learn something new about your character, that's really exciting.

The characters, to me, in 'Homeland' are not one note in any way.

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.

The scene is never really about moving the story forward on 'Breaking Bad.' That's the functional veneer of the scene, but it's always about what's going on with the characters.

As an actor, you want to be able to move your character forward into new ground, but also it's really interesting to go backwards and unpeel those layers and the interesting elements of what your character is and what informs the decisions that you make so that you can have as much meat to work with.

When I look at a character, whether he's good or bad, one scene or 10 scenes, I just have to find my way in.

These people I play are not usually wish-fulfillment characters.

I honestly feel it is important for a director to get obsessed with the characters.

Every character, for me, is a new discovery.

In the 'Buffy' room, it was never about a plot twist, ever. It was always about, 'Tell the story, tell the characters, complicate their lives, make things get worse,' but we never worked backwards from the plot, and it was always a great lesson.

From a writer's standpoint, each character and story presents its own unique challenges and delights. I'm deeply curious about all of my characters, and I love peeling away their layers to see what's underneath their skin, or secreted deep within their hearts.

In a series, you really need to stay open-minded. It's not like a play or a film, where you can create and fully commit to your character's back-story.

One of the ways that you reveal character is by getting a character into a situation and seeing what they do.

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.

I'd never really been in a series, where you see a man at different points and perspectives in his life. Usually it's a film, where I'm playing a character who just comes in and offers something up.

Sometimes the director will want you to write about the character, sometimes he'll want you to live in the location that the character is from or something like that, but I don't usually make a lot of notes or anything like that.

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

I'm interested in telling the character's story, not my beliefs, political or otherwise.