America Ferrera Quotes

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

Audiences are just like us as writers - we grow attached to characters. In certain ways you don't want them to change.

There is always that thought that you might get stuck with a character. But there's always the notion that every character is always evolving.

One pleasure of working on a trilogy is watching characters warp and grow over time.

I tend to relate to a character in terms of the arc: what's interesting is where he starts versus where he ends up.

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

I look for roles where there is some kind of an arc to the story.

I love doing a series because you get to see changes in a character and see her grow. It's a journey with change, and you don't get to see that long-term type of development with just a film.

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'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.

After a while, the character sort of took over.

I'm always sorry to finish a book, to let go of characters I love, people I've struggled to understand for years, people who evolve before me.

Being able to stay with a character over the course of years is a gift.

In 'The Prophet' I really fell in love with those characters, there was an emotional connection there that I don't think I've had in a while. It made me think it would be nice to stick with the characters for a little bit and see what happens.

Plot makes the character just as history makes the man.

Filmmaking is always sort of building a mosaic of this arc of what the character is going through.

If you have great characters, then your reader becomes emotionally invested in those people.

I love playing Blair Cramer, and I'm thrilled to see what more they have in store for her. After playing this role for so many years, I still feel like there is so much about her that is still untold.

The Duffers like that; they like watching their characters grow.

You want to see the people you've sort of come to know and love, or love to hate, you want to see them develop in some way. And I hope people get sort of caught up in that arc.

I think what good television does well is that it shows characters evolving.

My character on 'The Good Wife' is a smaller character, and his story arcs are typically season-long, unless it's a big episode for him. His transitions take place over many, many hours.

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.

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

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