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I try to write characters that are as real, emotionally and psychologically, as I can make them; I feel the same way about setting. This often means that I'm drawing from my experiences and observations.

Exposing characters and their shortcomings gives me great comfort. It's always great to write about someone more mixed up than yourself.

Often I choose characters who express not my best self, but the sides of me I haven't developed or haven't expressed.

If you're really being honest with yourself when you're acting, part of it is touching the real you. You can only separate yourself so much from the character. Those vulnerable moments do touch me.

I have a huge emotional attachment to characters I've created, especially the viewpoint characters.

Part of me becomes the characters I'm writing about. I think readers feel like they are there, the way I am, as a result.

I always find that I have to be emotionally on my character's side for it to be convincing.

Things present themselves to you, and it's how you choose to deal with them that reveals who you are. We all say a lot of things, don't we, about who we are and how we think. But in the end it's your actions, how you respond to circumstance that reveals your character.

I try to give each performance my own soul, to bring a truth to my character. Hopefully, when I bring that much truth to a character, it resonates with somebody, and it sparks some kind of emotion in them.

The characters that I'm typically drawn to are sensitive men who are experiencing some sense of identity crisis or growth in their life that they don't know how to overcome.