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It seems to me that most characters, in anything, are flawed in some way, just like most people. You look for the good in the flawed people and vice versa, and then try and make them appealing in some way.

I'm trying to make really flawed characters that have got redeeming features so people can say, 'I don't really like that character, but I can understand a bit where they've come from.'

To me the interesting main character is never the one without flaws.

I work very hard at creating complex characters, a mix of positives and negatives. They are all flawed. I believe flaws are almost universal, and they help us understand, sympathise and, paradoxically, feel closer to such characters.

I'm very drawn to characters who are very flawed. I'm less interested in characters who are just good or bad, because to me then they're not real people.

I'm more interested in characters who are a little difficult.

I'm interested in flawed protagonists. I was raised on them.

I love flawed characters, male or female, and I only want to talk about flawed characters, really, in what I do.

I think many people have contradictions to them and I love characters that deal with those contradictions.

I tend to have a pattern of playing misunderstood characters.