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I like characters who are contradictory.

I like characters who are larger-than-life, whether life-loving women or the artist or guru who grabs everything. But I don't live among people like that.

I like characters who don't change, who don't learn from their mistakes.

I like characters who have blind spots and are full of themselves, but there also needs to be vulnerability.

I like characters who have faults. I'm drawn to darker people.

I like characters who have strong facades and then have secrets. They have cracks.

I like characters who remind me of someone I know.

I like characters with character, not just pretty faces. Anyway, I think people can be both grotesque and beautiful at the same time. Look at Mick Jagger in the seventies. Look at Angelina Jolie.

I like characters with problems. I like to understand them... To play alcoholics, fetishists, strange girls, you have to dig deep within yourself. It's 'elsewhere' that interests me.

I like chatting with people. If people ask me a direct question, I give them a direct answer and I feel I've always done that with the press.