Unconventional Protagonist Quotes

I tend to like writing characters that are not typical heroes.

Hollywood can't stand heroes who aren't sympathetic.

I went to film school so I have a writing and directing background, and I think a lot of the material I'm interested in writing and getting out there is stories about anti-heroes and people you should just not ordinarily root for - trying to figure out a way of appealing to people they wouldn't normally appeal to.

In 'Njan Prakashan,' we set aside conventional definitions of a hero. Fahadh Faasil does not play a protagonist who wins all the time and you can see the character flee during fights. Such a hero is a rarity and the viewers could easily identify with him.

Until I came along all the leading men were handsome, but luckily they wrote a lot of stories about the fellow next door.

I would do 'American Splendor' and 'About Schmidt' again in a heartbeat.

It's kind of fun when you're playing characters that aren't quite on the up and up and people still like you.

As a real person, he wouldn't last a minute, would he? But drama is about imperfection. And we've moved away from the aspirational hero. We got tired of it, it was dull. If I was House's friend, I would hate it. How he so resolutely refuses to be happy or take the kind-hearted road. But we don't always like morally good people, do we?

I remember when I did the pilot, and I though no network is going to want to do this. How could that happen? A half Chinese guy walking the old west that doesn't fire one gun and never gets on a horse?

I think there are a lot of books about thin, attractive people having thin, attractive people's problems. I'm better set up to tell a different story.

The Tale of Despereaux is the story of an unlikely hero, a mouse, who falls in love with a princess and then must save her. It's a triumph of the human spirit, via a mouse.

There's something really freeing about playing a character that isn't even, like, remotely likeable whatsoever.

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I'm always attracted to anti-hero roles.

It's absolutely of no importance who or what V was under the mask. He isn't a who or a what, he's an idea. The thing is, you couldn't continue it. Now and then the idea of a sequel has been raised, in vague forms, but I think it would be a bad idea. The story's finished.

I love a kind of shambling outsider protagonist who always feels like they're 'other.'

I think people forget how radical the narrative of 'Slacker' is. There's no story, you know? We could go from one character to the next to the next and never return.