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Sometimes you have to go places with characters and emotions within yourself you don't want to do, but you have a duty to the story and as a storyteller to do it.

If I like the story and it's well written, and it's a character I want to play and they'll pay me, then I decide to do it.

I think my heart is quite selfish. If I followed my heart, I would not be a good person. But I have moral principles. I have to sit down and reflect.

I think, as writers, our first responsibility is to writing an honest story. Tell the story you want to tell, without pulling your punches.

Do not be too moral. You may cheat yourself out of much life so.

If you want a happy ending, that depends, of course, on where you stop your story.

All stories should have some honesty and truth in them, otherwise you're just playing about.

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

If you're telling a story it's always best not to play the ending.

If you're not connected emotionally to a story, then you're dead. You're really just opening the door for people to lose interest and their minds to wander, for them to start picking it apart.