Getting to work with good filmmakers and getting to play good characters in films is so special.
I think if you make good, interesting content with compelling story lines and good characters, people will tune into the web for as long as you want them to.
Good characters the reader cares about combined with an intriguing plot. Do those two and you've got it made.
I've read a lot of really great characters in some really crappy stories, where I said, like, 'Boy I could shine here, but the story sucks.' I don't want to be part of that.
Very good female characters, that's all we want. It's happening, slow and steady, which I love. Hopefully, it gets a little quicker. Fast and steady, how about that? Either way, we want more good females.
Characterisation is more important to me than the script. A decent story and extraordinary characters can do wonders for a film, but you cannot do it the other way around.
It's just lovely to be involved in a movie that does go back to the basics - characters and great writing.
Stories are important, but I'm really into characters, and if you can give birth to a good one, that's true success.
I'd like to play nothing but good characters.
But you see, I have played more good guys than I have played villains.
I'm a good guy. I love playing bad guys, but good guys that have a good thing going on, I like that, too. I don't like passive good guys.
Anything that feels like good characters, I am excited to do whether I write it or not. But if I don't find it in the world, I will write it myself.
As a woman, I don't feel like I have a responsibility to create better female characters. I feel like I have a responsibility to create good characters. Because the truth is, those kinds of things ghettoize us even more as writers.
Normally I play dads, good guys, and little animals.
It's rare that I've read a script where I'm like, "Oh, my god, it's hilarious!" All you want is a good skeleton and good characters. Then, you can go, "Okay, I can bring a lot to this. I can improvise and I can create something out of this."
Good characters are rare. As long as I find one or two a year, I'm happy.
I have a very healthy appetite for good writing and good characters. Having weak writing is my biggest fear.
At 'OITNB,' we really work to keep to the formula that's made this show so popular with everyone who watches it, which is to have really good characters and really interesting stories.
I feel like, sometimes, characters that are just good and nice can seem boring or uninteresting.
