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I think I've had pretty good experiences for the most part with the people who have directed my screenplays.

The screenplay has to be gripping. That's when the film will work. Then, I see how much I can relate to the character I'm playing.

As human beings, of course, we're all compromised and complex and contradictory and if a screenplay can express those contradictions within a character and if there's room for me to express them, that's a part I'd love to play, so much more than a character who is heroic and one-dimensional.

I've come to find more satisfaction and enjoyment in writing screenplays over the years because that's what I do primarily now.

I haven't done many films. But with every movie, I try to showcase a different side of me through a character.

With every film, I try and give the audiences a little more than the previous film in terms of comedy, action, drama and so on.

I don't really ever think about whether or not I like the characters I'm playing. I'm more into the minutiae of their behaviour or what they're doing in a certain scene.

I love working fictional characters into a piece of history. It plays to my strengths, which are characterization and dialogue, and assists me in my admitted weakness, plot.