Able Quote by Yael Stone

I come from a theater background, so usually, at the start, you know what happens and where the character goes and everything. But with…

— Kimiko Glenn

With any project, but especially in television, I always try to look at where the character is starting from and where he's going to…

— Noah Wyle

It's just lovely to be involved in a movie that does go back to the basics - characters and great writing.

— Clive Owen

You wanna do a lot of backstory for your character - as an actor, you wanna research that. But on the show, it's fun…

— Alison Brie

In TV, you can really get into not only great characters, but also the relationships. There are all of the backstories and all of…

— Chris Pratt

I would say that it's mainly about the director. It's a hard quality to find, but I always know whether I want to do…

— Alden Ehrenreich

Filmmaking is always sort of building a mosaic of this arc of what the character is going through.

— Matthew Fox

I think that the dramas that you find in TV are actually a lot more interesting, typically, than what you find in cinema.

— Marc Webb

I'm not really one of those people who goes and writes some big back story and agonizes over characters. I think you kind of…

— Rose McGowan

I look for roles where there is some kind of an arc to the story.

— Martin Landau

The way I work is I like to immerse myself in the world of the film and in the character's lives, and then from…

— Garth Davis

I think you can always find interesting, complex and fascinating characters to play in different kinds of movies. It's in your hands.

— Anton Yelchin