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I am not as confident as the characters I play. I am a bit aloof. I am uncomfortable in social situations.

If there is any secret to my success, I think it's that my characters are very real to me. I feel everything they feel, and therefore I think my readers care about them.

When you put your characters in a dire situation, they often do things that surprise even you, so you have to go back and revise your original conception of who they are.

I get very involved in my characters. Sometimes I have a very hard time separating my characters from my life.

Being a new character is like going to a new school. You have to try to maintain your own autonomy and your own personality.

By knowing your character so well you can't go wrong. All of us kind of fell into that.

When you've got good writing, you can kind of give up all the research, in a way, and start just following the emotional integrity of the journey of your character.

I try to pick characters that I find interesting and complex and that I feel I can bring something of myself to.

What happens with every role, you have to trick yourself, you have to creatively find ways to explore the mental state of your character.

Establish character - otherwise, it is difficult to connect with what is frightening.