Character Quote by Giles Deacon

It's like a piece of music; you never lose sight of the theme. Each scene pushes off to the next like music builds and…

— David Strathairn

The theme is the most essential component of a new series and I spend a lot of time developing it.

— Bear McCreary

With couture, you feel obligated to design something modern each season, but with Theyskens Theory, I don't question anything. I'm thinking of what I'd…

— Olivier Theyskens

That's one of the benefits of having many seasons behind you, is you have this wealth of characters that you can reintroduce, and that…

— Alex Gansa

When you're doing lots and lots of episodes and you're playing the same character, it's great because you really get to know the character…

— Misha Collins

I try to construct each of my novels around one central theme - core tensions shared by the characters.

— Chris Pavone

I'm not thinking much about overall themes or preoccupations or anything like that. Instead I'm just trusting that, if I'm working hard, various notions…

— George Saunders

I think the only thing that we know how to do is look at our characters and ask what is the character doing right…

— Dylan Clark

It's so fun to play a character that has so many layers that people won't even know, until the next season.

— Ben Schwartz

I never think about themes. I let the music create itself. I like it to be a potpourri of all kinds of sounds, all…

— Michael Jackson

In the initial season of a show, you're figuring out your character and their life and their background and you're putting together all the…

— Sophia Bush

On any serialized show, you're going to have through-lines that take you through the season, and you're going to have individual arcs that resolve…

— Jonathan Tropper