Everybody that I meet inspires me. You can learn so much from any person that you meet any day on the side of the street.
What the soul is to the body, so is the artist to his people.
I like going out and looking at people, and they inspire me so much.
I think that if you take a risk, you inspire people, and ultimately, inspiring people is more important than winning.
You meet people and you hear the way they talk and the way they behave, and that subconsciously gets fed into the characters you create 'cause you have to make them flesh and blood somehow.
Most characters are composed of snippets here and there of people I've known, and all rolled into the character I've created. They do become like their own people.
Research is what drives me. When I get a script, I go to the real world and touch the real people.
I don't really get inspired by landscapes that much, it's all people.
For me, the real pleasure in writing is in having an excuse to pursue my curiosity about people who have meant something to me.
