Over the years I've been trying to build a relationship with an audience. I've tried to maintain as much of a low profile as I could so that those characters would emerge and their relationship with audiences would be protected.

The relationship between reader and characters is very difficult. It is even more peculiar than the relationship between the writer and his characters.

It's a luxury to be able to tell a long form story. I love novels and I love to have a long relationship with characters.

Our first scene is sort of a reunion between the X-Men characters which establishes everyone's relationship to one another sort of like a recap for all those who have forgotten since the last movie.

There's a lot about the character. It doesn't always happen but there are some characters you really create a relationship with almost as if they were your friend. And you never get into their heads again or think like them.

There's the theory that nudity doesn't really make something sexy the characters and their relationship make it sexy.

I've always gotten a positive reaction to doing African-American characters.

The whole thing about making films in an organic film on location is that it's not all about characters relationships and themes it's also about place and the poetry of place. It's about the spirit of what you find the accidents of what you stumble across.

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.

Reading a novel in which all characters illustrate patience hard work chastity and delayed gratification could be a pretty dull experience.