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I'm constantly being surprised and finding unplanned things - because the writing is a process of experiencing things on the ground with the characters.

When I do my job, I dive into these characters and try to flush something out of myself into these characters, and hopefully that translates well.

I'm hopefully making the reader feel a lot about the characters and then about their own life.

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.

It ended up being a very good thing, because they finally started writing for the character, and I realized that you have to go to work with a purpose. I learned from the experience and then moved on.

I don't really ever think about whether or not I like the characters I'm playing. I'm more into the minutiae of their behaviour or what they're doing in a certain scene.

I don't think of the characters as being good or bad because that doesn't help me as a writer.

Part of me becomes the characters I'm writing about. I think readers feel like they are there, the way I am, as a result.

I love the characters not knowing everything and the reader knowing more than them. There's more mischief in that and more room for seriousness, too.

You love all your characters, even the ridiculous ones. You have to on some level; they're your weird creations in some kind of way. I don't even know how you approach the process of conceiving the characters if in a sense you hated them. It's just absurd.