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I don't really like heroes who always behave heroically. That's not interesting to me.

A lot of my characters are anti-heroes that became heroes.

Give me a character that has an heroic quality, and I'll go there.

I love characters who are clever and smart, and you have to run to catch up with. I think there's something very appealing and rather heroic in that.

I was never able to write seriously about heroes because I was very aware that I was not one and that in my background there was not this heroic thing.

Every character I play has to be the hero of his own story, the way we're all heroes of our own lives.

My heroes and heroines are often unlikely people who are dragged into situations without meaning to become involved, or people with a past that has never quite left them. They are often isolated, introspective people, often confrontational or anarchic in some way, often damaged or secretly unhappy or incomplete.

I admire many people, but I am not sure that I have any 'heroes.'

People have their complexities. They have their heroic moments and their villainous moments, too.