Audience Quote by Joaquin Phoenix

In my experience, it's usually up to the actor how a character is portrayed.

— Richard Dreyfuss

When you have a popular hero in your film, you have to think of what the masses expect from him. You have to portray…

— P. Vasu

I think for some reason we're conditioned in movies that the protagonist must be heroic or redeemable in some way, whereas in theater, that's…

— Oscar Isaac

I often meet directors who want to cast me as the protagonist, but if the rest of the characters are not strong enough, the…

— Dimple Kapadia

I believe that every single person attached to a film is a character and nothing more. I don't categorize them as hero, heroine, etc.

— Anupama Parameswaran

The characters are the result of two things-first, we elaborate them into fairly well-defined people through their dialogue, then they happen all over again,…

— Joel Coen

When you see the violence of Hollywood movies, there is a tendency that the hero is combating and confronting many people, without much harm…

— Takashi Miike

Eventually, after the hero and heroine, it is the antagonist who comes with the most anticipation in any film.

— Abhimanyu Singh

First of all, the actor needs to get out of the character's way. You follow the character without judgment or prejudice or preconceived ideas.

— Amy Ryan

The most important in movie is having a bad character; Not the Hero and the Heroine

— Anonymous

Sometimes a character is really based on research that you do. Other times it's just based on your imagination or perhaps your conversation with…

— Joaquin Phoenix

I don't just look at things as an actor. I've also written several films, so I look at it as a storyteller and I…

— Charlie Hunnam