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I start with characters, and then I start writing, and then, if I'm lucky, things start to happen.

I would like to think that I'm more different from my character than I am.

There is a little bit of me in every part I do... I'm not really good enough to completely construct an all-new character.

I get very involved in my characters. Sometimes I have a very hard time separating my characters from my life.

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

There starts to be an overlap between you and the character.

I shy away from plot structure that depends on the characters behaving in ways that are going to eventually be explained by their childhood, or by some recent trauma or event. People are incredibly complicated. Who knows why they are the way they are?

Especially when you play a character for so many years, the character ends up reflecting a lot of who you are and I think I've changed a lot since then, but that represented a lot of who I was as a teenager.

I always try to make each character my own.