I show the people I love that I love them by gathering them in my kitchen and feeding them, so no surprise that most of my characters do the same thing.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Somehow or other, I always end up in a kitchen feeding a crowd.
Almost every character I've ever played - and sometimes this is very conscious and sometimes it's not - I need to find what they love.
My characters surprise me constantly. My characters are like my friends - I can give them advice, but they don't have to take it. If your characters are real, then they surprise you, just like real people.
I always try to make my characters people, and yet I always want to entertain.
You do get fond of your characters. Handing them on is like giving a child to a nanny.
I fed them every day. So it was a papa that kept food on the table for them. I did that. I did my part.
I usually don't like to 'spoon feed' my audience, because I grew up idolizing story tellers who tell stories using symbolism, so it was in my nature to do the same.
I treat all my characters as if they were real, and I am scrupulous about the details of their lives.
With actors, it's really about feeding them all the time. I don't get involved in their process. I try to do the opposite, feeding them, feeding them, feeding them, and you can see very easily how they react to it.
I never really like the characters I play. I only come to love them afterwards.