I rarely return to characters. My characters, at least most of them, are much more a part of that superorganism that is the story than separate and independent creatures.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Rarely do I try to pull a creature out of life and make it a character.
In the old days, I just could not leave characters alone. Now I just try to keep the ones that still have something in the way of stories to tell.
Character is what you have left when you've lost everything you can lose.
The characters I'm most emotionally involved with are like friends you leave behind when you move away. You don't see them regularly anymore, but you still love them and keep in touch.
You bring a little bit of yourself into every character you play. We're multifaceted creatures.
I enjoy being characters rather than myself.
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 enjoy pushing my characters to the limit. No matter how far out there I go, I look for things that make the characters human.
I get very involved in my characters. Sometimes I have a very hard time separating my characters from my life.
I try to inhabit each of the characters as fully as I can, however short-lived they are. But most of my show happens offstage.