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You have to start from a place of trying to create a character.

You always have to create the character from the ground up.

You don't become the character.

There starts to be an overlap between you and the character.

You and the character just become the same person in a way. There isn't really a character; it's just you creating this illusion.

When I create a character, it happens in layers. The more I write and revise, the better I understand the characters.

You have to find out how to become the character.

I think character is permanent, and issues are transient.

Creating characters is like throwing together ingredients for a recipe. I take characteristics I like and dislike in real people I know, or know of, and use them to embellish and define characters.

Characters don't belong to anyone, not even the person who plays them.