Characters Quote by Scott Westerfeld

With films, you get to develop a set of characters, and then, at the end of the film, you have to throw them away.

— Jonathan Nolan

You have to get rid of characters to make room for new ones, but you also have to recognize when things are done.

— Matt Lucas

Usually on a film set it's making sure that everyone is there for their scene, and the moment their scene is over they disappear.

— Michael Gracey

One always has to spoil a picture a little bit, in order to finish it.

— Eugene Delacroix

Your characters have to remain innocent of what your picture is after.

— Douglas Sirk

When you cut a film, certain scenes fall away and don't fit into the shape of the movie.

— Wyck Godfrey

People forget that actors are actors, who are looking to put on the clothes and the character, and then shed it just as easily.

— Milo Ventimiglia

I think with actors, we tend to get rid of characters - and not get rid of them as in discard them or throw…

— Milo Ventimiglia

What I find sometimes that is tricky is if actors are using too much of their own life in a picture, in a scene,…

— Tom Cruise

Sometimes people can write really great scenes and even a great episode, but they can't see the bigger picture.

— M. Night Shyamalan

Even when close friends want me to play a character in their film, I take it up only when it just cannot be turned…

— Samuthirakani

In Hollywood films everything is tidied up at the end with clean lines and clean character definitions. It's sort of unsatisfying.

— Jim Broadbent