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I like to think I put some of myself in every character.

With every character, I just bring something that I can make my own.

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

I always get inspiration from whatever characters say about my character.

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 made the character as much of myself as I could.

My characters always like themselves.

I like all my characters in one way or another, or at least I understand them.

Creating characters is like throwing together ingredients for a recipe. I take characteristics I like and dislike in real people I know, or know of, and use them to embellish and define characters.

I also try very hard to create characters - both heroes and villains - with psychological depth.