Warwick Davis Quotes

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.

What's fun about doing a series is you get to take some time to create the character.

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.

There's something really satisfying if you've created a bunch of characters that have withstood 25 episodes.

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

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

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.

There is nothing like being able to develop a three-dimensional character over a long period of time. Sometimes you aren't able to fully portray a character because you only have a couple of scenes to do it in, and you don't get the full life and background of that character.

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.

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

I love seeing a story evolve over several books and watching characters develop.

Every film you're commissioned to write is all about an arc; usually, the arc is that the world creates a change in the character, usually for the better. To not have an arc, the messages and ideas in the film became more prominent.

Film is so much to do with perfection and how differently you can feel about someone at the beginning of the film and the end of the film.

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.

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.

I'd love to do a film. I'd love to play a character that I know the beginning, middle and end of.

It is quite different, but I love doing a series because you get to live with a character for a much longer amount of time. And the other aspect of it is that you have a steady job.

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.

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

My books usually end where they began. I try to bring characters back to a point that is familiar but different because of the growth that they have gone through.

You treat characters like people you meet in life-friends or mentors.

I'm drawn particularly to stories that evolve out of the character of the protagonist.

Not all series books are sagas. Some are shaped more like beads on a string, separate episodes held together by a set of characters, who may or may not grow and change as the series continues.

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