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When I do a character, I try to base it on someone I have met or an experience I've had.

There are always certain things that you tap into, your own personal experiences, and I try to base my characters on someone I know or someone I've seen.

My characters all have issues, but I don't see that as weird or abnormal because I think in real life there are very few bland, normal people.

I think every writer will tell you that their characters are always partially themselves: who I am and what I've experienced. It's always there in part of my characters.

At times it's been weird because for the first phase of my career, I've been really well-known for a character that I was so not like and a character I never anticipated doing.

The character is close to me, except that I haven't lived through those situations, so it's not completely me.

It is very hard to separate one's self from a character. Sometimes the people closest to me have to be very understanding.

I find more of an authenticity in people who are a little strange - so I really like characters who are just the tiniest bit weird. I find enormous comfort in that - someone who's kind of normal just doesn't feel as true.

I do sometimes play characters that are a bit ambiguous. You've got to be brave about that sort of stuff. I like the sense of people not feeling too secure, not immediately knowing what they have in front of them.