You know, I've always just made the choices on my characters based on my connection to them, and I've made decisions that maybe other people haven't understood; why I passed on something, for instance.
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When you play a character, there are choices you have to make about the past, the present, the future, etc. You have to make those choices on your own a lot.
I try to pick characters that I find interesting and complex and that I feel I can bring something of myself to.
I do sometimes play characters that are a bit ambiguous. You've got to be brave about that sort of stuff. I like the sense of people not feeling too secure, not immediately knowing what they have in front of them.
There are always certain things that you tap into, your own personal experiences, and I try to base my characters on someone I know or someone I've seen.
All of my characters are a little bit based on people I know in real life. You know when you do that you have to change the character a little bit in case your friend or your relative reads the book, because you don't want them to know you wrote about them... They might get mad.
People say they love the characters I've chosen in my career. But I didn't choose anything. I just happened to be working and these were offered to me.
I get very involved in my characters. Sometimes I have a very hard time separating my characters from my life.
Because characters are your creations, you are the one who ultimately gets to decide their fate.
I like all my characters in one way or another, or at least I understand them.
Characters are so important to a story that they actually decide where the story is going. When I write, I know my characters. I know how things are going to end, and I know some important incidents along the way.
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