Rachelle Lefevre Quotes

If you're dealing with a character that actually exists, there's an awful lot of information there. So, you can put together, from the information, motivations, insecurities, reactions. Where does that seed get born, if you like?... What I do is put that together.

Before I write the first page of a novel, I spend a long time creating detailed backgrounds for my characters. I imagine the experiences that have formed them, what makes them happy, angry, fearful, and what they yearn for.

With any role I play, I find out what the human problem is first.

For each character, I try to understand what is driving them.

For me, playing a really bad character is about figuring out what brought the person to where we need him.

One of the troubles of our times is that we are all, I think, precocious as personalities and backward as characters.

I like to have a much greater base and know a lot more about my character before I begin to fill the person. So a lot of it really entails sit-downs with them, determining who she is, where she came from, and why she reacts a certain way, and then I was really able to expand upon a lot of that and create a lot of that story on my own.

Characters make their own plot. The dimensions of the characters determine the action of the novel.

Once we got over the origin story, we could really delve deeper into their lives and characters and angst. So this movie actually has more heart, more humor.

My thing is, I like playing guys who have a really interesting internal monologue.

When you're crafting a character, it's good to have a lot of influences.

Character is primary. What happens as far as plot and events is not as intriguing to me as what's happening inside this particular person.

There are a lot of techniques for developing a character.

If you know your characters well enough, you aren't trying to grasp for storylines. You're really thinking about their flaws and their passions and what they're chasing.

The movies and TV shows I like to watch tend to put their characters in situations where they have to dig deeper.

You've got to understand what makes the character human.

The function of the novel is the exploration of the human condition. Really, that's what it's all about.

To create a fully formed character full of life, struggle, and humanity is tough.

If you can find a way your character moves, you know more about your character than you'd ever dream.

Ten years of character development affords you a lot. You get a chance to dig deeper and deeper and deeper into a person.

I think all my life's story is condensed in my face. It is neither innocent nor coy. It speaks volumes.

I look to find the heart and soul of people, of my characters. I look for the truth of them and the truths about life that are presented through them.

I was attempting to write the story of my life. It wasn't so much about plot. It was much more about character.

What drew me to Batman in the first place was Bruce Wayne's story, and that he's a real character whose story begins in childhood. He's not a fully formed character like James Bond, so what we're doing is following the journey of this guy from a child who goes through this horrible experience of becoming this extraordinary character. That, for me, became a three-part story. And obviously the third part becomes the ending of the guy's story.

I do like characters that have flaws, some sort of pathos to them that they are trying to sort out.