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It's an interesting plot device to enter in a third wheel - it always helps raise the stakes for all parties involved. But often, those characters can be one-dimensional.

What a character eats is a detail - like eye color or a favorite song. But food is also our lifeblood.

Once you have invented a character with three dimensions and a voice, you begin to realize that some of the things you'd like him to do to further your plot are things that such a person wouldn't, or couldn't, do.

I don't think there's a subject matter that can't absorb 3-D; that can't tolerate the addition of depth as a storytelling technique.

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

Nearly everything in life goes in threes and fours.

I am attracted to the complexities and deeper truths of characters, and I can't name a favourite role any more than I can name a favourite food!