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You have to find ways to relate to the characters you get to play. Put it in terms and in a context that speaks to you.

As an actor, I have to be fulfilled in the roles that I play; it has to be a journey for me to learn something or involve myself.

My goal is to play characters that I feel I can contribute to and also ones I can contribute back to my life.

I suppose with any character that you play you always bring your personal experience to it. You always bring people that you know or that you've met and sort of - this is what I do, I mean, I don't know what anyone else does - but people that you know or that you've met that have affected you in certain ways, you bring into it.

The physical journey in my films is indicative of the internal journey that my characters take.

I try to play real people who inspire me through something in their journey.

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.

One of the things that would steer me away from a franchise is that I'm playing the same character all the time and I wouldn't want to be known for that.

When you play a character, there are choices you have to make about the past, the present, the future, etc. You have to make those choices on your own a lot.

But I'm attracted to roles where I get to really go in and explore a character.