“I don't care about sympathy. I care about playing a character who's un...” — Anson Mount Quote

I don't care about sympathy. I care about playing a character who's understandable and clear.

I think all of us have a hero and a villain in us.

You don't need to like your protagonists.

I love the long-form format of television. I love being able to develop a character, over a long period of time.

I don't go to movies for redemption - if I want that, I'll go to church!

Any sympathy won for Aileen Wuornos based on a lie is not sympathy at all. The question is, can we have sympathy for the circumstances of someone's life? That's what I was interested in.

Almost all of our sorrows spring out of our relations with other people.

If someone needs help, I don't do tea and sympathy, but I'm honest and practical - that's how I was brought up.

I think, in a written novel, the way in which you play with the readers' emotion or the way in which you engage the readers' emotions can be very indirect. You could come at it through irony or comedy, etcetera, and you could capture people's sympathies and feelings kind of by stealth if you like.