J. J. Abrams Quotes

When it comes to your hero, what the readers really fall in love with are his flaws. No one ever falls in love with a perfect hero.

I love flawed characters, male or female, and I only want to talk about flawed characters, really, in what I do.

I find flawed characters much more interesting than perfect ones and enjoy the challenge of making readers root for them in spite of their unsympathetic path and destructive choices.

The characters are whole, real people to me that I'm getting to know, and since real people are all flawed, so are my characters, I hope.

I'm always much more interested in flawed heroes than in perfect ones.

I'm attracted to playing characters that have flaws.

I like playing flawed characters, people who aren't perfect.

I think heroes who are not flawed are not believable.

Fallible characters are more interesting than superheroes in the end.

I like fractured characters with human follies.

All my characters are quite relatable, as they are flawed, true, and honest. All of us are flawed; nobody is pure and pious.

I work very hard at creating complex characters, a mix of positives and negatives. They are all flawed. I believe flaws are almost universal, and they help us understand, sympathise and, paradoxically, feel closer to such characters.

I don't want a perfect character, I want a character who has, as strange as it sounds, some humanity, some flaws, some needs.

Everyone loves characters that are relatable or who have unique quirks or tragic flaws.

You don't want to play a perfect person; no one cares about that.

I look for characters that are extremely flawed and the anti-hero.

I let characters be human and flawed and relatable.

The more shaded, flawed characters that are struggling, I think there's something very relatable about that.

If you have a character that seems to be all perfect, it's hard to relate to him because when you read a story you really want to empathize with the character that you are reading about. And it's hard to empathize with someone who is flawless and who has no problems.

I think it would be very boring dramatically to have a film where everybody was a lawyer or doctor and had no faults. To me, the most important thing is to be truthful.

It seems to me that most characters, in anything, are flawed in some way, just like most people. You look for the good in the flawed people and vice versa, and then try and make them appealing in some way.

I love to feature children and young adults as real people - flawed, naive, virtuous, venal - but real. I think it adds nuance and depth to the stories that wouldn't exist without them.

I don't like to play characters that are too perfect.

I love it when you like a character, and then she does something you don't like, and you hate her for a while - then you love her again. I'd like to see her have unlikable moments that the audience understands and sympathizes with.

We're all flawed, and we all make mistakes, and we all have weaknesses. And those are the kind of people I want to see onscreen, the ones that feel like real flesh-and-blood human beings and not the weird, whitewashed, Hollywood stand-ins for people with the rough edges sanded off that I can't connect to because they just don't resonate with me.