Character Sacrifice Quotes

Remember Star Trek? They're on this huge ship and they've got all these people, right? But you only see them, maybe they go on some mission and one of them gets killed.

I think sometimes in comedy the characters are often sacrificed for the joke, and it's more important for it to be funny than for there to be love.

Talent is commonly developed at the expense of character.

Character deaths in and of itself should never be done for shock.

With films, you get to develop a set of characters, and then, at the end of the film, you have to throw them away.

Most people are dispensable in 'Game of Thrones,' not only in the story but in the series.

People want to see comedies where characters aren't sacrificed for the jokes.

That's just what 'The 100' does. They like to put their characters in a position where no decision is the right one, you know? You have to kind of just hope that it works out.

We don't have a problem killing off characters on 'House of Cards.'

Traditionally in zombie movies, one of the main characters dies.

The producer and writers [ of X-Men: Apocalypse ] were kind of feeling me out with, "Are you okay with the fact that you die?" and I was, like, "Yes." That's something that people would talk about, so I thought it was cool that I died. Havok was in three movies and then I get to be remembered.

People who were more concerned with themselves and looking good to their readers then they were with the characters sacrificed a series for the sake of a story.

The trick to making a story matter is that every now and then, somebody you care about has to go. If it's somebody that you don't care about, then it doesn't really have - the stakes aren't there. But if you do that every now and then, then the story matters to people. And there are actual stakes involved, emotional stakes.

Whenever you're in any acting role you are mortgaging your own character.