Chris Wood Quotes

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

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

You have to start from a place of trying to create a character.

Whenever you have a role where you don't get to know anything about the character, you have to invent it yourself. You have to feel like it came from somewhere.

I just love to be able to actually build a character.

I find it easier to play someone who is so far from me because you create someone - you build this person based on the story and the script, with the director.

You always have to create the character from the ground up.

When I'm breaking in a character like Jessica Jones, I have this amazing opportunity to create her backstory. It's all of the work that happens before I'm ever on camera... Writing 'Bonfire' was like doing all of that fun stuff; it was like 300 pages of prep work.

Getting in and out of a character takes its own time for me.

Building a character - nothing gives me more high than the process of exploring someone else's life on screen.

In terms of the character itself, I can't really say that I find anything really difficult. I enjoy the character so much I don't perceive difficulty in trying to be him. It's just a matter of how do we get there.

Sometimes a character is really based on research that you do. Other times it's just based on your imagination or perhaps your conversation with the director. Or sometimes all of the above. It depends on the movie and character.

I usually don't find myself reacting to my characters. I just create them ... And let the audience decide whether they're empathetic or scared or compelled to cheer me on.

In the work that I normally do, you have a whole script, a whole arc, that you play. And I do believe a good actor will play every bit of information they're given.

When you have a book as material as it is, it's a lot easier to create a character because you have so many resources to draw upon when acting.

I always like to play roles where I either love the character or think that it's a story that I can tell better than anyone else. There are always reasons for me to do whatever I do.

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

One of the things about writing fiction is that you create people that you feel, more or less, as though you know.

You really have to create everything in order to come away with a full human being on screen.

I love creating characters that people may or may have not ever seen before. But I enjoy the opportunity to try to make something new, and that's when I really come alive as an actor, so I really enjoyed working on 'Arrow.'

Developing characters is a strange thing. In the beginning they are abstract and I wonder how to move on from there.

I work out the other bits, too, but I need to know what I look like, very early on. And then it's like a template; I'll fill that person out. If I get that out of the way, then I'm all right.

I take stuff from real life and try to make a character out of it. And I try to live the world of the characters a little bit.

When you have a character to work with, you carry them around in a strange way - they make you look at the world in a different way.

Every time when I start preparing my character for a movie, I always try to make up and create my own background story for the role in order to fill it with life.