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Whenever I have had to write fiction, I've always had to invent a character who roughly has my background.

My job is to focus on bringing characters to life in an honest and personal way.

Like actors and writers who are on and off again in terms of employment, I had a very unstructured life.

I think in many ways, I'm sort of a blank canvas, because in many ways, I'm just observing the world and the people around me and their characters and letting them kind of explode off me and to find out why they're doing what they're doing. But then every once in awhile, I get to take on a whole new character.

Character is what you have left when you've lost everything you can lose.