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Characters have changed my mind about some very fundamental moral issues, and that's the real satisfaction in the way I write - the ultimate learning experience.

In some ways, what I learned is that you can take a character and breathe with them, and it's up to the audience to interpret rather than you putting moral stamp on the character.

And while I might not always agree with the viewpoint I have to portray, because I play a district attorney, as an actress I can always tell myself that my character is trying to take the moral high ground.

You can't go around hoping that most people have sterling moral characters. The most you can hope for is that people will pretend that they do.

There is a moral dimension, for me, in anything that's any good.

I like the idea of a character that you wanna like even though you know he's making immoral choices throughout the film.

Contemporary audiences are interested in watching characters navigate ethical challenges and moral dilemmas.

There are always great deals of humanity in the characters that have been offered to me.

Stories can bring alive the moral universe in a very vivid, useful, engaging way.

I like characters who are changed, often for the better, by the dark nature of their experiences. I also can become engaged by a character for whom I wish to see justice done, one way or the other. In general, I require a book to have some sort of moral center.