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I'm an actor; I have made my living by acting, and I almost think I owe it to the public to express my feelings and not as a character on a screen but as myself.

When you're writing fiction, you're in every character 'cause you can't help it.

As human beings, of course, we're all compromised and complex and contradictory and if a screenplay can express those contradictions within a character and if there's room for me to express them, that's a part I'd love to play, so much more than a character who is heroic and one-dimensional.

The best thing about being a fiction writer is that where the truth is inconvenient, I could veer away.

I'm not saying that I am all of my characters, but for me to bring a character to life, you've got to be able to find your own truth.

I'll write about myself, or people I know, or archetypal characters, but the goal is to get at some truth, not to necessarily convey my own experience as an individual to the world.

I feel like my responsibility as an actor is to make characters as compelling and believable as possible.

There's a tendency when you write a book to portray yourself as the hero.

I believe that, like most writers, my personality comes through in the fiction. So in that respect my writing can't be like any other author's really.

This is a cliche, but in fiction, I feel it is easier for me to get to some sort of truth, some kind of more honest writing.