Character Quote by Michael Uslan

If you don't spend the time you need on developing characters and finding stories, complicated stories, the audience gets tired because they think they're…

— Kathleen Kennedy

There's something extremely rewarding about following characters that you like and knowing that there's as many hours of viewing as you have the appetite…

— Jamie Bamber

A two-hour movie tends to be a plot-delivery device; you tend to have to introduce all the characters, say what the goal is, and…

— Noah Hawley

What audiences love with series is that they can invest in characters for such a long period of time, and it's the same for…

— Florence Pugh

I try to naturally keep things to a manageable storytelling length, which is about two hours, so you try to cut out anything extraneous.

— Martin McDonagh

The opportunity to be able to tell long-form character stories is something that TV affords and is therefore a terrain that a lot of…

— James Watkins

Because of the pace of daytime, you don't necessarily have time to work every detail of your character, so you have to bring a…

— Sarah Brown

You dream to be able to have a storyline that spans hours and hours and hours but in reality, half of the people who…

— Sophie Turner

I've gotten used to spending more time with heavily narrative stories.

— Joshuah Bearman

When you are working on a movie, you have to ensure that the journey of characters ends in two hours.

— Vikramaditya Motwane

It's the reason I love doing TV - revisiting stories and characters and the length of the story arcs.

— Sophie Rundle

I've always set my stories in places I know well. It frees me up to spend more imaginative time on the characters if I'm…

— Kim Edwards