Chris Claremont Quotes

I always think change is important in a character. The most dynamic choices that you can make for a character are always the best ones.

If you change a character too much, the audience falls out of love with the character, but characters need to evolve and grow over the years.

I like my characters to go through some changes during a story arc.

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.

You can't take a character anywhere they don't expect the character to go. But within those confines is where creativity lies.

And almost always there has to be change, change in the characters is the journey - it's the story.

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.

I think everybody goes through changes, and the same should be said for fictional characters, especially ones that you follow on television.

After a while, the character sort of took over.

I love to see how a character unfolds off the page in a project. I don't always know how the character is going to turn out, even with the script being there. It's not always clear where that character is going to take me. Or where I will take them.

An actual saga demands change, both in its characters and its world.

I'm trying to make all the characters change and grow, or regress.

One has to be able to twist and change and distort characters, play with them like clay, so everything fits together. Real people don't permit you to do that.

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.

Usually, at the end of a film it's like I've finally gotten to know this person completely, and then we're done. That actually happened on the set of 'Twilight,' and then it happened again on 'New Moon.' Each time my character Bella became a different person, and I got to know that person and take her to the next level.

I am a big proponent of character arcs that show us how people change over time.

Novels demand a certain complexity of narrative and scope, so it's necessary for the characters to change.

One reason I find all this character growth and narrative swerving so exhilarating is because I never got to do it when I wrote for TV. Our characters needed to remain consistent from week to week.

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

Characters develop as the book progresses, but any that start to bore me end up in the wastepaper basket. In real life, we may have to put up with tedious people, but not in novels.

I really enjoy the constant change in TV. It's fun to play a character that is, hopefully, growing and developing over a long period of time.

I care more, and I think readers do also, for characters in a state of transformation.

In the novels I most admire, there is this sense that, within the confines of the world, the possibilities are always opening in new and surprising ways - that was a quality I strived to capture, with the hope that the reader would be willing to follow me.

There were certain things that I tried to do on 'Karamchand.' Initially, they were hated, but eventually everyone loved the characterization.

Characters do change over time; there are surprises, role reversals, and things like that.