“I’m not interested in characters who aren’t broken. I’m not interested in happy people. It just doesn’t draw me as a writer. Theater people say you are either a comedian or a tragedian, and I’m a tragedian. And the vexing, dark characters, the ones where I don’t understand their pain or their anguish, they are the characters that appeal to me.”
Screenwriter John Logan (Hugo, Rango, The Aviator, Gladiator)
“A Precise, Beautiful Machine”: John Logan on Writing the Screenplay for Hugo
Smithsonian.com
Note: ”I’m not interested in character’s who aren’t broken,” is a nice bookend to the Stanley Elkin’s quote, “I would never write about someone who is not at the end of their rope.”
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