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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。
When you're working with a smaller budget I suppose one of the things that has to be in your mind when you are writing is that you have to keep the characters down to a minimum.
当你的预算比较少的时候，我想当你写作的时候，你脑海中要考虑的一件事就是你要把人物的数量降到最低。
I sublimate different parts of my personality through my characters. Which is worrying, as some of them can be a bit nasty. I'm pleased the stuff on the page isn't inside me any more.
我通过我的角色升华了我性格的不同部分。这是令人担忧的，因为其中一些可能有点令人讨厌。我很高兴页面上的东西不再在我的内心。
One of my biggest pet peeves is that I just don't like it when characters do things that are funny to the writer, but you don't know why they're doing it and it doesn't make any sense.
我最讨厌的一件事就是我不喜欢角色做一些对作者来说很有趣的事情，但是你不知道他们为什么要这么做，这没有任何意义。
People say that to me and I think what unites all my characters is that they are hurt; it's most accurate to say I play characters that are hurt but are responding to their environment.
人们对我这样说，我认为把我所有的角色联系在一起的是他们受到了伤害;最准确地说，我扮演的角色受到了伤害，但对周围的环境做出了反应。
Well, I don't think I've ever been a huge target for the press, and I value that to a degree, because there's a certain value for actors staying beneath the radar so they can play characters.
嗯，我不认为我曾经是媒体的一个巨大目标，我在一定程度上重视这一点，因为演员躲在雷达之下，这样他们就可以扮演角色，这是有一定价值的。
All my characters are me. I'm not a good enough actor to become a character. I hear about actors who become the role and I think 'I wonder what that feels like.' Because for me, they're all me.
我所有的角色都是我自己。我演得不够好，演不成角色。我听说有演员成为了这个角色，我想‘我想知道那是什么感觉。因为对我来说，他们都是我。
My fictitious characters will take the bit between their teeth and gallop off and do something that I hadn't counted on. However, I always insist on dragging them back to the straight and narrow.
我虚构的角色会咬掉牙间的嚼子，飞奔而去，做一些我没有预料到的事情。但是，我总是坚持把他们拉回到正道上来。
They weren't impatient for the boys to turn into cartoons again. They awarded sympathy, gave compassion. Because deep down they had found parts of themselves in the characters. You said it George.
他们并不急于让男孩们再次变成卡通人物。他们给予同情，给予同情。因为在内心深处，他们在角色中找到了自己的一部分。你说对了，乔治。
All thought must, directly or indirectly, by way of certain characters, relate ultimately to intuitions, and therefore, with us, to sensibility, because in no other way can an object be given to us.
所有的思想都必须直接或间接地通过某些特性，最终与直观联系起来，因此与我们联系起来，与感性联系起来，因为没有别的方法可以把一个对象给予我们。
The characters you refer to as predatory and unsavory are useful. They're the ones who make a novel into a thriller. They're active, and most of the common virtues, the signs of a good person, are not.
你所说的掠夺成性和令人厌恶的角色是有用的。他们把小说拍成惊悚片。他们是积极的，而大多数共同的美德，一个好人的标志，却不是。
I really love idiot, enlightened characters - these characters who fail to engage with the drama of their immediate circumstances; they fail to be reactive and enrolled by drama as it happens around them.
我真的很喜欢白痴、开明的角色——这些角色没有把自己当下的处境戏剧化;他们没有反应，没有被周围发生的戏剧性事件吸引。
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I look for characters who are emotionally driven.
我寻找的是情感驱动型的角色。
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。
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。
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。
The Swords were still interesting but by then a cast of characters had started to appear and go on from book to book, and other things about the world began to feel constricting. And there were other things I wanted to do, so I closed the series up and stopped it.
剑仍然很有趣，但那时已经有一群人物开始出现，一本书接一本书地出现，世界上的其他事情开始让人感到压抑。我还有其他的事情想做，所以我结束了这个系列，停止了它。
When I am writing, I'm very much on the ground, on the same ground my characters are treading.
当我写作的时候，我是脚踏实地的，我的角色也是脚踏实地的。