Diego Klattenhoff Quotes

On 'Supergirl,' there are huge characters with huge mythologies behind them. What's important is that you don't lock yourself into something.

I do whatever the directors and writers ask me to do.

I think I can work with any type of actor.

As an actor, our very palette is one of imagination. So it is a walk onto an empty space and then imagine the world beyond it is what we do.

It's your job as an actor to fill out the blanks. I love doing that. To fill in the bones.

I don't have a style. I just try to write what the story demands.

Characters don't belong to anyone, not even the person who plays them.

I sort of make believe. That's why I like acting. You can create or imagine anything.

I'd play the same character for ten years if the words and the moments that I'm playing are authentic.

Writing is writing to me. I'm incapable of saying no to any writing job, so I've done everything - historical fiction, myths, fairy tales, anything that anybody expresses any interest in me writing, I'll write. It's the same reason I used to read as a child: I like going somewhere else and being someone else.

I enjoy my job as long as I can create a character, otherwise it's boring.

I'm actually one who will encourage directors to cut my lines.

There are a thousand ways to play any role.

As an actor, you need to be versatile. You need to challenge yourself.

When I have to play the same role every day, I have the flexibility to play the character in so many different ways. It's almost like playing five different roles.

Doing animation is closer to pretending than anything else you get to do. It's much more like when you're a kid putting on a character.

I would like any type of character that I could be creative with and totally delve into.

And as much as I love the gritty characters, I like to play all sorts of characters. I'm an actor. I love to create.

I try to always stretch myself to fit the characters that have been presented.

I remember thinking, 'I can't act.' Pretending to be someone else is a terrifying thought. The thing was that, along with other people, I could create a whole world. I felt absolutely right directing.

'The Names' is planned as a nine-part series. I have a kind of road map: I know the final scene of episode nine. But as to exactly how we get there, what detours or horrible accidents we might have to pass through, I like to keep that a little fluid.

Initially I probably didn't even call it acting, but dressing up or something. As a kid I think you fully imagine the world in which you want to inhabit, so you put some clothes on and just kind of freely imagine this world, and it's a total imaginary world.

It's what still excites me most about acting: letting your imagination go places it's never been before. There's nothing better than that.

I think one of the things that attracted me about theater and the stage was the ability to escape reality. And that is what I do in my work as a writer, but in a different way. And the freedom to put your own existence on ice and become another person.

What I learned in 'Sons' is that I would come in with a blueprint of a season and how it would go, and I realized that the looser my grip was, the better it became because the story found itself. Things happened as I wanted them to in terms of the bigger mile markers, but the fun part was I never knew how we would get there.