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Clearly, I'm drawn to characters with inner conflicts.

I'm drawn to damaged, complicated characters.

I work very hard at creating complex characters, a mix of positives and negatives. They are all flawed. I believe flaws are almost universal, and they help us understand, sympathise and, paradoxically, feel closer to such characters.

I tend to gravitate toward conflicted characters, and a character who is exploring chaos theory and population control and the difficulties of love and family is pretty rich.

I think conflicted characters are always more interesting.

Character development is conflict.

I believe strongly that characters are five-dimensional, and they're complicated, and life is complicated, and people are complicated.

Everyone is complicated one way or another. But it's interesting to dig into a complicated character, to try to find that within yourself.

Basically, every character I've ever played, I've based entirely on internal conflict. And I love doing that, because I think it's very human.

I do feel more towards certain characters who have depth and intelligence.