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With a lot of comedies, the characters go on a journey, and they come back, and they're the exact same people.

Fans want to see a story with characters, and they want to see a story.

If the characters are compelling, readers will follow anywhere.

They really stay just characters to me. I look at them, and I don't see always the same person up there. And hopefully, people will see that too. Because it's very easy to bore people, and that's a killer. So hopefully that won't happen.

In a way, the characters often do take over.

I don't think they knew exactly where they were going with the character, but they lay those stories out ahead of time, so they had some idea where they wanted it to go.

What an audience decides about where certain characters come from is really up to them.

It's very good for me to remember what actors go through.

The reader is going to imprint on the characters he sees first. He is going to expect to see these people often, to have them figure largely into the story, possibly to care about them. Usually, this will be the protagonist.

Wherever I go in the world, people all know about Scotland Street and are always asking me about what's going to happen to the characters next.