Asa Butterfield Quotes

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.

In every film, whether it's a fictional character or not, you create an idea of the character and for me I always do a bad impersonation to start with.

You try, as an actor, to wear a mask; you're serving a story.

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.

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

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

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.

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 think actors are very obsessed about looking different and behaving differently, but all people need is just a different film. They don't want a different you; they want a different story.

It's down to the actors to show the writers the potential of the character.

I don't really write with actors in mind; I write with characters and then hope desperately that we can get good actors to play those parts.

As an actor, you create a character from your understanding of what you have heard and your observations. Eventually, every film is an extension of the images that I have seen or what I have heard or read somewhere.

You have more creative freedom with writing, in certain ways, because you can create everything that happens. But, as an actor you also have creative freedom because you don't so much focus on what has to move the story along, and only on how your character is reacting to situations.

I had to focus and create a character in Bagger Vance, not just do my 'Will Smith' thing and get paid.

Yeah, I think the common denominator - and this is probably going to sound like Acting 101 - but the common denominator is belief in the character in the moment.

I am a professional actor, and I don't go about moralizing about what the character does. Otherwise, seriously, why be an actor? You're not making some kind of social statement. That's not what actors do.

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.

To create characters, one must build background. And one of the tools we use is improvisation.

Ultimately, the idea of acting is to understand the people you're playing, and then where they're coming from is not so mystifying. You've got to detox a bit after, though.

I treat any scene the same - dialogue, action - you're still creating something in character. It's all acting, fighting.

With a film, I do my best to understand the author's intentions and try to bring the characters to life.

I try to get roles that challenge me in what I can do and who I think I can portray. For me, it's about creating characters with really fascinating stories, because that's what I like to watch on TV.

Well, with each character that I play in my life as an actor, I try to figure out how to find the challenge.

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

If you have a very good concept of your character, you can snap into it.