But I'm attracted to roles where I get to really go in and explore a character..

You, quote, find your voice, unquote, when you are able to invent this one character who resembles you, obviously, and probably is more like you than….

If you look at a character as a mountain over there that you have to climb, then I think you've lost 50 percent of the air..

A great novel is concerned primarily with the interior lives of its characters, as they respond to the inconvenient narratives that fate imposes on t….

Any place that manufactures humans into weapons is going to piss off a couple members of X-Force. I always want a personal reason for why these chara….

Go where youre celebrated - not just tolerated..

I love doing a television show. It just always feels like it's a little while before you find something that feels unique and that feels like a chara….

To play one of the main characters in it, it's not the kind of thing you don't do. Oh, I'd rather not play Pippin in Lord of the Rings... In fact, I'….

Usually when you're playing a character, you think a lot about their backstory..

I think that acting involves doing your job so well that you are able to help the viewer identify with the character..

I'm drawn to female characters, not all of them are strong characters. I think I'm drawn to female characters partly because they don't have as easy ….

I don't know who will overcome losses, some losses aren't meant to be overcome, but all losses make for good stories and good character development a….

It's possible to overlook character flaws of in-laws for the simple reason that you feel neither responsible for them nor genetically implicated..

Develop a clean line of action for your leading character.

Let the Common School be expanded to its capabilities, let it be worked with the efficiency of which it is susceptible, and nine tenths of the crimes….

I always love costume, and I'm always heavily involved in how things should look. Or how they should feel really, because that's part of the way I su….

When you're writing TV or movies your vernacular is time, it's all based on rhythms, a character takes a beat or two characters have a moment, like e….

We love what we can't have, and we can't have what we love..

When I am kicking around show ideas, or really any idea, usually an image comes to me. I don't really start with a character or a logline like, "What….

For any artistic person who creates imaginary people, the art is like inhabiting the life and mind of a seven-year-old child with imaginary friends a….

I just take everything one at a time and make sure everything I do is the best..