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Developing characters is a strange thing. In the beginning they are abstract and I wonder how to move on from there.

The goal is to have every character take on a life of his or her own. Sometimes characters will come into the story that I haven't planned.

My school of thought with going into a character is that you have to understand where they come from, and you have to empathize with them.

You have to find out how to become the character.

You can't form a character without being completely comfortable with who you are as a person.

I feel there's something about becoming a character that helps people understand themselves.

You don't become the character.

In the process of developing a character, you do, in fact, start to take him on as a personality.

If you change a character too much, the audience falls out of love with the character, but characters need to evolve and grow over the years.

Unlike life, you've got more or less complete control over what's going on in your stories. That's not to say you can make characters do whatever you want them to - they usually have a life of their own if you've done your job properly.