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You have to suspend disbelief a little bit to buy into your situation and to the story and to how the character will react. You have to tweak your credibility a little bit, is basically what it comes down to.

You have to believe that you are the character or the thing or whatever the hell you're playing.

A character is as much about what you do as what you say.

One of the ways that you reveal character is by getting a character into a situation and seeing what they do.

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.

Make your characters believable, and your reader will believe what they believe.

You have to respect who the character is. It has its own internal truth, and you can't betray that. And if you don't betray that, it will not betray you.

You have to play the logic of a character.

You can be aware that something is idiosyncratic, and give it to a character, but keep doing it.

I think the idea is to try and understand everything about the characters and where the character is coming from, from their point of view, why they say what they do. And not, 'Oh, but I would never say that. Why does the character say that?' But then making it as personal as possible.