Cory Barlog Quotes

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

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

For me, one thing I love is having an arc for a character.

I remember always feeling lucky with Zoey on 'Nurse Jackie' that... she was new at the very beginning. So that gave her everywhere to go.

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

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.

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 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.

I usually start with a repulsive character and go on from there.

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

After a while, the character sort of took over.

Every actor wants to have a character that changes, that has some kind of movement, that gets from point A to point B, that doesn't just supply one note.

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

I think it's really great to be able to stick with a character for a long period of time. It's not like you have one shot, and that's it.

What I discovered is I don't like to repeat lead characters because one of the most pleasurable things in a book to me is learning about the lead.

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

One never wants to do anything that's going to break that 'sculpture of the character' that's been done so far, or make anything that's been done so far become illogical in any way, so you always want to try to connect when you're doing a series of films that has a continuous character.

With a series, you build the character as you go. When you've got a shorter project or a film, you know the overall arc from the beginning.

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

With any project, but especially in television, I always try to look at where the character is starting from and where he's going to end up, and try to find the biggest arc that makes it the most exciting to play.

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.

As you do on any cable series, if they introduce you as the villain, then you better start working towards making him a really good guy, or if they introduce you as a really good guy, then you better start working towards being the villain. Your character has to go somewhere, or else they become very uninteresting.

I love the long-form format of television. I love being able to develop a character, over a long period of time.