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I love characters who are clever and smart, and you have to run to catch up with. I think there's something very appealing and rather heroic in that.

I think, above all, the characters in my novels feel universal to the readers.

The movies and TV shows I like to watch tend to put their characters in situations where they have to dig deeper.

The characters that aren't what they seem to be or women who are stronger than people give them credit for or characters you underestimate, I always think are really interesting because there are so many possibilities with them.

I think I'm drawn to characters with complexity or who are under duress in some way and have some conflict going on.

I think it's fair to say I'm attracted to playing characters who are rather intense.

I think I am more attracted to characters with a subtext, whatever that is and they don't necessarily have to be virtuous, but they have to at least be human.

The funny thing is that I feel close to all my characters. Deep, deep inside them all.

I love to start characters in a place where you think you know them. We can make all kinds of assumptions about them and think they have no redeeming qualities, but like everyone, they're complex.