I didn't know how to kill off a character unless I was able, as a narrator, to get really complicated. Because it was a big deal. I'd never killed a character before.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
I wanted to work on this central problem of killing. How you go about killing. Now, in the film I had to kill my children - well, I didn't want to get that far.
Sometimes I can't get out of the character because the story is very intense.
I've been forced to deal with my character assassination.
Because I killed a guy in real life, and because my character kills a guy onstage, they said I could never do anything this great again. I resented that.
A lot of times, scripts are written so the character is all one way. Even with 'Bringing Out the Dead,' the character was written a little more generic.
If you try to kill yourself for a role on the TV show, you'll succeed. It's too long, it's too much. So, it's tough, but the challenge is a good thing.
It's always really hard to kill off someone who you just really enjoy working with, writing for, and seeing on the screen.
There is no better place to plot the death of a character than when you're miserable and working out.
In many films, as many different characters, I've killed many different people.
People told me I couldn't kill Nicholson, so I cast him in two roles and killed him off twice.