Character Quote by Katherine Waterston

You need to be invested in what happens. The characters are your conduit to the story. Many modern horror films are fun but not…

— Jane Goldman

I understand that anything actors are doing, good or bad, is motivated by fear.

— Baz Luhrmann

If you have great characters, then your reader becomes emotionally invested in those people.

— Lawrence Wright

If you care about the characters, then whatever scary thing happens to them, you feel it even more.

— James Wan

I am always physically and emotionally invested in the characters I play.

— Shweta Tripathi

It's always useful to know that people are emotionally invested in a series because it means that you can take them down a certain…

— Jed Mercurio

In some roles you do get into a mode of terror. It's always very frightening - the first audiences are frightening.

— Ian McLeod

My favorites movies are always character driven, it's the human equation that makes horror interesting to me, not the monsters. It's how people handle…

— Ed Gass-Donnelly

Honestly, when you're writing you try to stay on the story, on the character's mind, trying to throw stuff at them. There is danger,…

— Fede Alvarez

You start to fall in love with characters as you work with them, and anytime that you care about your characters and you realize…

— Drew Goddard

What I love about watching classic horror films is that they take you on a ride and they obviously make you scared because you're…

— Katie Holmes

You must worry about the truth of your characters and that it fits your vision. The rest will come naturally if you've done your…

— Juan Antonio Bayona