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It is my job to step into different characters.

I always try to find some part of a character that exists in me and plug that in.

I put a lot of myself into my characters when I write.

There are bits of me in all my characters.

The characters emerge from my rather twisted mind. That's another enjoyable part of the job making stuff up.

I like my characters to be ones I think about long after I've finished reading the script.

I write characters. Some of those characters are women.

They are imaginary characters. But perhaps not solely the products of my imagination, since there are some aspects of the characters that relate to my own experience of a wide variety of people.

If I'm not clear with the character, I can't do anything with it. But once I get that character, the possibilities are endless. When you have such a defined character, I feel like I can actually read the phone book and make it funny.