I don't have examples in my life of people who are all good or bad; I have deeply loved many people who are both, and I relate to those kinds of people on a far greater level.
When I hear that somebody's difficult, I think, Oh, I can't wait to work with them.
I just always gravitate toward the kind of characters or people that maybe you don't want to talk to for a long time at a party, but you do like to watch what they're doing.
I like people with depth, I like people with emotion, I like people with a strong mind, an interesting mind, a twisted mind, and also someone that can make me smile.
I'm interested in characters that are complex people.
People are complex. I'm just showing my complexity.
I just think that people are complicated, both men and women. It happens that I write more about women.
I'm a problem solver. I love people. The more complicated they are, the more I get into them, and I just want to understand what makes them tick.
I'm interested in telling stories about characters that are interesting and who are challenging in some way, one that will make you think about them afterwards.
I have been really lucky in my career, with the diversity of it. I get to play really complex people.
I try to take people one at a time, with all the contradictions and compromises that most of us live with.
I liked Latin, I like languages, I liked all the myths, and the Roman tales that we were required to translate in Latin, and all these interesting people who were never quite what they thought they would be or seemed to be.
A lot of times, we talk about black people as if being black is all they are. They get up, go to work... and are as complex and interesting and variable as any other group of people. We don't often capture that or write about it.
People are still people, and they make their decisions based on their life experiences and their beliefs. You really can't divorce the two. It's important to fight against stereotypes and oversimplifications in very complex people.
It is no use trying to sum people up.
That's my ambition: that you look at the pictures and realize what complex, fascinating, interesting people every single one of my subjects is.
