Roberto Aguire Quotes

I want to give my characters nuance.

When you're crafting a character, it's good to have a lot of influences.

With any role I play, I find out what the human problem is first.

Outside books, we avoid colorful characters.

What makes characters real are details, and if you're crafting a person from scratch, you're probably not going to pay as much attention to a question like, 'Does this person bite their nails?'

You decide which characters you want and then do the best you can to bring their humanity to the forefront in the context that you place them in - the crises in which you've placed them.

Whether you're writing a horror show or a James Bond film, I think what bubbles beneath is interesting characterization. The colors that emerge through storytelling is what a dramatist does. There's always got to be something bubbling underneath that will erupt at some point.

I enjoy pushing my characters to the limit. No matter how far out there I go, I look for things that make the characters human.

We start with strong characters and build the movie from there. That not to say we don't struggle with story - that's the most challenging part.

For every book that I write... I develop a history for each person and make sure they are well rounded and flawed. You have to know everything about them from their shoe size, to where they went to school, to what their first pet was, to what they like to eat, to what they want out of life.

You're trying to bring an emotional and psychological reality to a character that's on the page and make them three-dimensional.

The most fascinating powers don't mean a thing if the guy's poorly motivated or dull, and the most generic powers won't hurt a well-motivated character. Personality and motivation are what make Magneto, Magneto and not Cosmic Boy. The powers work for him, but it's his motivation that makes him the character he is.

Creating characters is like throwing together ingredients for a recipe. I take characteristics I like and dislike in real people I know, or know of, and use them to embellish and define characters.

I love series television because it's so much fun to have that much opportunity to paint the character.

I also try very hard to create characters - both heroes and villains - with psychological depth.

There are a lot of techniques for developing a character.

I know myself - I cannot just play a cliche. It has to be a character; it has to be written with the complexity of the human being behind. Could be bad, could be good, could be someone we would hate, but still, I need a reason for that influence, and I need to understand why.

To give a character life in a short space of time, it helps if you arrive on screen with a past.

If you know your characters well enough, you aren't trying to grasp for storylines. You're really thinking about their flaws and their passions and what they're chasing.

In the process of developing a character, you do, in fact, start to take him on as a personality.

When you're building a character, or at least when I'm building a character, you start saying, 'How am I going to make people like him?'

So I work hard to present the human side of my characters while not neglecting the plot.

So the characters that I choose, I like to make sure that they have depth and that they have some sort of bite. It's more fun.

Action is only really compelling when it reveals character - character revealed through action, and not action for its own sake.

In creating a new character, it's sometimes difficult to find a touchstone, a North Star that will always point you in the direction that character will travel.