Sometimes it's a character you want to play or a story you want to tell. Sometimes it's just to pay the bills.
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If I like the story and it's well written, and it's a character I want to play and they'll pay me, then I decide to do it.
A story is built on characters and reasons.
A character is as much about what you do as what you say.
The goal is to have every character take on a life of his or her own. Sometimes characters will come into the story that I haven't planned.
Always, your work is the same: You have to tell a story, you have to make a character. It doesn't matter if there are thousands of dollars, millions behind it, or if there is nothing.
A lot of readers want characters to behave in a responsible way, or they want to understand the characters' dilemma and act, in a way, on their behalf.
In real life, people are constantly saying one thing and doing another, but if you write your characters that way, the story becomes too hard to follow.
I just didn't want to get bored playing a character, and that's kind of the benefit of doing films; you've lived with a character for four or five months and that's it, and you walk away from that character and you feel like you told a story.
It's fun to present stories that have a character that, really, everybody wants to be.
I really believe that when you're playing a character that everything is contained in the script. If I'm pulling from things from my own life, then I think I'm being disingenuous to the character and the story.