Y'lan Noel Quotes

I'm a hardcore reality lover. I love characters that people can relate with and yet a tinge of grey shade.

I enjoy taking on complex, difficult characters and have always striven to capture the truth of those people, whether or not it's popular.

If you're going to play human beings, and you're going to play them three-dimensionally, you have to show every side of them.

I love Nicole Holofcener's films for their constant duality of humor and emotion and their focus on very real, if flawed, dynamics between funny people.

'Line of Duty' is a social realist drama, so it's set in a world that has the recognisable features of the authentic world we see around us.

I don't think being flawed is a bad thing for a character... nor do I think it's a bad thing for a person in life, because that's how we all are.

Theresa Rebeck's writing is so scarily funny. I just love how unapologetic she is with her writing: she doesn't try to make her characters likeable or heroic, she just really makes them human. Hopefully, the audience is able to love them in the end - or have whatever feelings that they want to have about all of them - but I love that she doesn't have that agenda. That is something that, as an actress, was really appealing to me; to just get to be in this group of people who are complicated and very human.

Shameless is a rough show, and it’s not for everyone, but it’s also beautiful.

I thought that would be kind of cool, to make a bad guy look sympathetic.

I love gritty drama. I'm passionate about films and drama that make you think - hard-hitting, gravelly characters.

I believe strongly that characters are five-dimensional, and they're complicated, and life is complicated, and people are complicated.

I think it's very important to write a demythologized woman character. My characters are flawed. They are no better than they should be.

'Star Trek Into Darkness' isn't that 'Star Trek' is going to be no fun, and dark. It's that the fun's going to be challenged by some serious issues.

By definition, poetry works with qualities and dynamics that mainstream society is reluctant to face head-on. It's an interesting phenomenon that by necessity, poetry is just below the radar.

'Watchmen' is a politically charged story, and it explores exactly what a hero is, how the world would treat them and how they would react. It was the first time I read a superhero story that explored that situation. These are very real people with very real problems.

With all the main characters that I write, it's always very important to me that they have good and bad aspects of their personality. It's important to me that they're complicated and that they're human.

Films are big hits when they touch a lot of people. Things are not funny in a vacuum, they're funny because we respond to some personal dislocation, some embarrassment, some humiliation, some pain we've suffered, or some desire we have.

I want to create a TV show that people will watch and say, 'Hey, I have a favorite character,' or 'Hey, that person reminds me of myself,' or 'Hey, I've made some of those same mistakes, or those are some of the things I've dealt with.'

In terms of 'Ray Donovan,' the story is so rich, the actors are so fantastic, the writing is impeccable. And it's such beautiful storytelling with complex characters.

What I love about 'The Good Wife' is that it's not straightforward.

I do really like serio-comic movies that treat real difficulties in a real way.

That was the beauty of 'Roseanne' and Roseanne herself. It could go dark; it could do issues.

One of the great things about 'Girls' is that each of these characters really does represent a human being. There are definitely relatable aspects to all of these folks, and certainly within my close friend group, those personalities very much exist.

Real people are complex, contradictory, and have their own motivations - they can't just be mouthpieces for the writers' point of view.

My job is to look out on that world that I write about and be as honest as I possibly can about that world. If that's optimistic and uplifting, OK. If it's not, OK.