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I was worried for a while that it was some sort of reflection of me that all I seemed to be getting were these characters that were a tad bit loony. But I love it. Those are the most fun characters to play!

My great influence has been Maurice Sendak, who drew 'Where the Wild Things Are.' His characters really interact with each other.

I've worked a lot with Noah Baumbach, and he doesn't make it easy to like his characters, but the stories are funny and witty and there's an edge to that kind of humanity.

I tend to gravitate toward conflicted characters, and a character who is exploring chaos theory and population control and the difficulties of love and family is pretty rich.

I'm attracted to the underrated characters.

There are characters that become more popular as we fall in love with them.

The movies that are really big, at least in my experience, oftentimes don't have characters that I feel as personally connected to.

The characters are always the focal point of a book for me, whether I'm writing or reading. I may enjoy a book that has an intriguing mystery or a good plot, but to become one of my real favorites, it has to have great characters.

Ever since I was really little, I've had characters that were in my mind.