Bob Shacochis Quotes

If you know exactly what your character knows, it's a drama.

I'm interested in characters and relationships.

I like movies about people and movies with characters; that's what I'm drawn to as a person who likes to create these characters within the story, but I like it all, really.

You've got to leave the reader with more than just a name and a costume - they need to know who the character is, what they're like, what kind of attitude they have, what sort of role they play.

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

The characters are always the focal point of a book for me, whether I'm writing or reading. I may enjoy a book that has an intriguing mystery or a good plot, but to become one of my real favorites, it has to have great characters.

It's really about, oh come on, this guy wouldn't say that or he wouldn't do that, you know, it's about the characters, about the story, about the situation.

You just play what a writer writes, in terms of what a character chooses to do and how a character chooses to deal with their various relationships.

You'd be surprised how hard it is getting the human emotional arc in a script to work. Ultimately a director stands and falls by their ability to do that.

It's exciting that you've got an entire season to experience 24 hours of highly dramatically charged human experience. It allows for the close inspection of minutiae in behaviour.

I'm tired of playing freaking cha-chas, the sassy CIA agent, the best friend homegirl. I'm tired of that!

I try to create characters that I am fascinated by on some level or intrigued by or can't stand.

There are always different roles and questions to be asked about certain characters.

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

Strong characters are needed in the game.

You don't want to make performances; you want to make people. When a project knows, 'Okay, my bad guys need to be a little sympathetic, and my good guys need to have a bit of a mean streak,' you're off to a good start.

As an actor, I'm always interested in my characters getting into trouble, because conflict is, you know, the great determiner of someone's mettle.

Every character comes with its own challenges.

In 'Poster Boys,' every character is well defined.

One of the things that separates a good genre movie from a bad genre movie, I always think, ironically, is when you care about the people. The dime a dozen ones are where you don't have any awareness of the character.

I have always argued, in a good novel, interesting things happen to interesting people.

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

My books are character-driven. They're not driven by the story.

I am attracted to the complexities and deeper truths of characters, and I can't name a favourite role any more than I can name a favourite food!

As a novelist, I'm endlessly fascinated by human behavior and interactions.