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You treat characters like people you meet in life-friends or mentors.

It's difficult sometimes to become friends with actors.

You live vicariously through your characters.

What always leads me in terms of my movies are characters.

As a novelist, I tend to know significantly more about my characters than I do about my friends.

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

In a weird way, I live vicariously through the characters I play as an actor.

You always take a little bit back with you at the end of the day. I always put a little bit of myself into the characters, too. You find parallels, points of connection, things like that. But I'm not an actor who gets so incredibly haunted by my characters that I can't come back.

A lot of times in movies, especially in sequels, the characters become caricatures and just sort of improv machines and joke machines, rather than people you can actually connect to.