I love writing about men. To get by in the world you have to know how men think. Not that all guys think alike, but women tend to think about more things at the same time, an overgeneralization, but I find it easier to make my male characters focus than I do my female characters.
I think my own personal style always ends up seeping into characters that I play. I've always had a very distinct idea of fashion for myself, and what a character should wear.
I'm attracted to films that have strong female characters because there are strong female characters in my life.
Mostly the natural landscapes work as a sounding board for my characters, so they can understand themselves, and it acts as a mirror in which we readers see ourselves. The natural world is the place into which all my characters have to situate themselves in order to be who they really are, and that makes my rural fiction feel different from a lot of urban fiction.
I can always see something of myself in the characters I play.
I wouldn't be surprised if some day, they put the Simpsons in the Smithsonian. It's become part of our culture, those characters.
I couldn't say no when I received that offer [to re-invent the DC characters]. . . How can any writer say no to the opportunity of redoing every one of DC's top superheroes?
The more you understand me, the less characters I can play.
I'm sure there's pieces of me in all the characters I play.
Nice people with common sense do not make interesting characters. They only make good former spouses.
I've always been drawn to dark, disturbing characters.
You cannot base a whole movie on just the imagery alone. It has to be the story and the characters.