I feel my characters are valid, my characters are people, my characters have hope. Hope is the thing that'll take us through.
A character to me can't be contrived. I don't like to contrive characters. They have to have an element of truth.
I feel that my characters all have some part of my character. I feel that they're all me in some way, certainly not in individuality, but they all bear elements of what I feel.
There were very strict social conventions, and you adhered to it, and I think it gave you a lot of character. When a man said something, he meant it. He wasn't kidding around. There were no jokes involved. Nobody was in the mood to joke unless you hit a guy with a baseball bat.
