Alexander Gould Quotes

The most I could hope for is to come and try and develop a character who is interesting, who is interesting to me, who is interesting to fans and who could contribute to the storytelling that is 'Law & Order: SVU.'

'Longmire' is more of a show about the characters, and you couldn't pay a bigger compliment than to want to know more about my character, or the characters on the show.

Most of my films have a lot of character development and exploration, whereas in most horror movies the characters are just cardboard.

I honestly feel it is important for a director to get obsessed with the characters.

It's always incredible though when you feel like the writer knows the character intimately and can see their life sprawling away outside of the show.

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.

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.

In a series, you really need to stay open-minded. It's not like a play or a film, where you can create and fully commit to your character's back-story.

The world is full of novels in which characters simply say and do. There are certainly legitimate genres in which this is sufficient. But in real and lasting writing the character is.

I like my characters to be ones I think about long after I've finished reading the script.

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 think it's important that a director be able to know his characters inside and out.

I locate that special problem in a character and then try to understand it. That's the genesis of all my work.

Every single film I've done, it's about the character.

If you give a character room to breathe, they come alive.

The life of a character doesn't just exist between action and cut.

I can always tell when a filmmaker doesn't care about his or her characters; they just care about setting them up to kill them off.

I do build my own backstory as an actor. It's important to know where your characters have come from in order to know where they're going - in order to exist in that state of being.

Any time you learn something new about your character, that's really exciting.

I wanted more in depth ideas about the character and it never came.

I am good when there is something central about the character. There is always a human theme I attach myself to. I am really looking for something that is moving or enlightening or something with depth as an actor. I look for these kinds of roles.

As an actor, you want to be able to move your character forward into new ground, but also it's really interesting to go backwards and unpeel those layers and the interesting elements of what your character is and what informs the decisions that you make so that you can have as much meat to work with.

Often the starting point for characters, for me, is finding a little, most minor detail, and I'll go from there.

To me, the struggle is to try to make a less-well-written or less-well-rounded character and find who they are. If you really get it, and it's all on the page, then it's really just gonna pop out at you.

When you create a character, you create it for yourself - you do whatever you want. It's your job to explore it in as many different avenues as you can in order to make it a fully wounded character.