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From wrestling to my hip-hop thing, I've just been able to do so much and meet so many crazy characters.
从摔跤到我的嘻哈音乐，我能做的太多了，遇到了太多疯狂的角色。
A certain luxury when you get to writing a novel is to have the space to have your characters just banter.
当你开始写小说时，有一定的奢侈是有空间让你的角色只是开玩笑。
It's just lovely to be involved in a movie that does go back to the basics - characters and great writing.
能参与一部回归基本元素的电影真是太好了——角色和精彩的剧本。
Well, I think in my first two novels, both the characters are pretty neurotic, which I would say that I am.
嗯，我认为在我的前两部小说中，这两个角色都很神经质，我想我就是这样。
Yet as a director, I don't feel you have to identify with your characters as a requirement to make a movie.
然而，作为一名导演，我不认为你必须认同你的角色是拍电影的必要条件。
I think having my life be as private and quiet as possible is a way in which then I can go and play characters.
我想让我的生活尽可能的私密和安静，这样我就可以去扮演角色了。
I try to pick characters that I find interesting and complex and that I feel I can bring something of myself to.
我试着挑选我觉得有趣和复杂的角色，我觉得我可以把自己的一些东西。
When I'm watching TV, I'm always drawn to those female characters who are doing something that I would want to do.
当我看电视的时候，我总是被那些正在做我想做的事情的女性角色所吸引。
I think I'm drawn to characters with complexity or who are under duress in some way and have some conflict going on.
我想我被那些复杂的角色所吸引，或者是那些在某种程度上处于压力下，并且有一些冲突的角色。
Algebra looked like Chinese characters to me, and I could never get into reading Shakespeare. I just did not get it.
代数对我来说就像汉字，我从来没有读过莎士比亚的作品。我就是不明白。
Kids often ask me if characters are real or made up - and I always tell them, 'I hope they're real but I made them up.'
孩子们经常问我角色是真实的还是虚构的，我总是告诉他们，‘我希望他们是真实的，但我是虚构的。’
I've worked with a lot of characters that are unhinged. I've played characters that are unhinged. That's, like, my job.
我和很多精神错乱的角色合作过。我演过精神错乱的角色。这就是我的工作。
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All people are paradoxical. No one is easily reducible, so I like characters who have contradictory impulses or shades of ambiguity. It's fun, and it's fun because it's hard.
所有的人都是矛盾的。没有人是可以轻易还原的，所以我喜欢那些有矛盾冲动或模棱两可的角色。它很有趣，因为它很难。
I write fast. But it takes me a while to get going. It's very important for me to see my whole plot. I have to see the end first because I like a surprise in the end. Which is why I let characters and plot gestate in my mind.
我写得快。但是我需要一段时间才能开始。对我来说，了解整个情节非常重要。我必须先看结局，因为我喜欢最后的惊喜。这就是为什么我让角色和情节在我的脑海中浮现。
I always think that I love doing what I'm doing at the moment. The past is over. I can't go play one of those characters again. But I can play this and I can continue to grow in what I'm doing at the moment and that's really what I'm thinking about now.
我总是认为我喜欢做我现在正在做的事情。过去的已经过去了。我不能再演那些角色了。但我可以玩这个，我可以继续在我现在所做的事情中成长，这就是我现在真正想的。
You always take a little bit back with you at the end of the day. I always put a little bit of myself into the characters, too. You find parallels, points of connection, things like that. But I'm not an actor who gets so incredibly haunted by my characters that I can't come back.
你总是在一天结束的时候带回来一点。我也总是把自己的一部分融入角色中。你会发现相似点，连接点，诸如此类的东西。但我不是一个演员，我的角色让我难以置信的困扰，我不能回来。
The idea of goodies and baddies has always fascinated me, and what people consider to be a goodie or a baddie, because I've never seen any of my characters as baddies.
好人和坏人的概念一直吸引着我，以及人们认为好人和坏人是什么，因为我从未见过我的任何角色是坏人。
Characters can become boring. That's what's tricky about television. It goes on and on - you're playing this same character for five seasons and it gets easy to fall into just walking on the set and assuming you know how to play a scene.
角色会变得无聊。这就是电视的微妙之处。这种情况会一直持续下去——你在剧中扮演同一个角色已经有五季了，你很容易就会陷入一种走在片场的感觉，并且认为你知道怎么演一个场景。