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I'm about my characters.

I'm drawn to damaged, complicated characters.

Your image isn't your character. Character is what you are as a person.

I always try to make each character my own.

I try to distinguish my characters from each other.

There are bits of me in all my characters.

As a director, I have to feel realism from actors, and they can't be plastic.

I never act my characters - I am them.

What's the difference between Hollywood characters and my characters? Mine are real.

If you go out to Hollywood you'll find a lot of fantastic plastic people there in the business and a lot of people in life generally. They find it so hard to be themselves that they have to be plastic.