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The opportunities I've had to play really complex characters - which haven't been a lot, but some - you never get over them.

I do have characters who are more well known than I am, which suits me fine.

I can't inhabit my characters until I know what kind of work they do. This requires research because my jobs for the last decade have been author and professor, and I'd like to spare the world more author or professor novels.

All of my main characters have been under 30.

The whole point of having great characters is the opportunity to explore them more deeply with time, re-interpreting them for each new age.

I've been really lucky to play sort of a diverse array of characters over my relatively short career, although it feels really long.

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 don't think of the characters as being good or bad because that doesn't help me as a writer.

All of my characters are less than perfect.

I've been really fortunate in the fact that I've gotten a chance to do a real wide range of all different kinds of characters.