Kalki Koechlin Quotes

Some of the greatest battles will be fought within the silent chambers of your own soul.

I don't know why, but I respond well to tortured characters.

I think conflicted characters are always more interesting.

I enjoy flawed heroes that actually struggle, you know, with their own sort of path and are not really aware that they reach that level of being a hero.

Whenever I have tried to make a character bad, they end up being good in some way.

George Foreman. A miracle. A mystery to myself. Who am I? The mirror says back. The George you was always meant to be. Wasn't always like that. Used to look in the mirror and cried a river.

I like devilish, thorny, dirty, mean roles, muck and mire, unbelievably sad, unbelievably happy, burdened. Inner conflict - that's where drama is.

I've always preferred writing about grey characters and human characters. Whether they are giants or elves or dwarves, or whatever they are, they're still human, and the human heart is still in conflict with the self.

I think we all have to fight the werewolf within us somehow.

Well, the years from 10 to 20, when your body, mind and everything is like changing every five minutes, can be pretty torturing. And most of the interesting characters, I think, are somewhat tortured or torturous. I'm 20 now, so I'm only just an adult.

I think that 'City of Heavenly Fire' is definitely a book where all the characters are tested to their limits, and they have to make really significant choices about who they are and who they wanna be.

I think I'm drawn to characters with complexity or who are under duress in some way and have some conflict going on.

Clearly, I'm drawn to characters with inner conflicts.

The battles that count aren't the ones for gold medals. The struggles within yourself - the invisible, inevitable battles inside all of us - that's where it's at.

I want to read about a character doing something fairly quiet where I can picture who the character is, and what their attitude towards the world is - which I'm a lot more interested in than what they do under the pressure of a gunfight.

We're all complex human beings, and if some of that complexity shows through, I think it's advantageous for the movie.

I'm drawn to emotionally damaged characters because there is more to unlock.

I think a lot of people relate to some of my characters' inner struggles.

I like stories where there's a center that's mushy and complicated.

To me, any character that is conflicted inside as well as outside of themselves is always a better role to play.

Our heart glows, and secret unrest gnaws at the root of our being. Dealing with the unconscious has become a question of life for us.

I like playing characters who are fractured, broken. I find that more relatable, for some reason. I don't feel that I'm like that myself by nature, but there's just something that you can really grab hold of if people have a darkness in them, I think.

The movies and TV shows I like to watch tend to put their characters in situations where they have to dig deeper.

It's always appealing to play a character that has to overcome himself as well as an obstacle. It makes the drama so much deeper.

My books are about ordinary people placed in extraordinary situations who are able to draw upon their inner reserves to challenge the status-quo in life and navigate compelling human relationships.