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I've always been incredibly crazy about the fact that I'd have any fans at all. It says to me that the characters that I choose are interesting to people and that's thrilling to me. It really is.

Cool? Am I cool? I don't know, but I hope my characters are cool, in the sense of iconic. That's my job, at its very essence.

You love all your characters, even the ridiculous ones. You have to on some level; they're your weird creations in some kind of way. I don't even know how you approach the process of conceiving the characters if in a sense you hated them. It's just absurd.

That's the main thing that attracts me - characters who have big journeys. I like playing those people.

You do get fond of your characters. Handing them on is like giving a child to a nanny.

You have to love the characters you play, even if no one else does.

I enjoy pushing my characters to the limit. No matter how far out there I go, I look for things that make the characters human.

I never really like the characters I play. I only come to love them afterwards.

Good characters are rare. As long as I find one or two a year, I'm happy.

For the most part, there's so much of me in my characters.