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Anytime you take on a character... you just have to find the parts of the character that you can understand.

I try mainly to just focus on character and what my character's point of view is, with each person, and try to figure out story.

I probably read 100 times more than I write, but that way when I move my characters through it, I know.

If you have a very good concept of your character, you can snap into it.

I always devise a background so that it makes what your character goes through logical and keeps up the continuity.

I try to learn on each project, try to really feel what the characters are feeling.

Often the starting point for characters, for me, is finding a little, most minor detail, and I'll go from there.

I envision the script as a story in my mind, memorize the entire thing and have it play out. It helps me figure out where my character needs to go.

I just kind of do my thing with sort of tunnel vision for the story and my role and how it fits together.

If you don't travel the world and see as much of it as you can - see different characters in different situations - then how are you going to learn? I figured the best way to do that was to explore as much as I could.