Creating characters is like throwing together ingredients for a recipe. I take characteristics I like and dislike in real people I know, or know of, and use them to embellish and define characters. ↗
Another little known fact about Amazing Tennis - the computer opponents are modeled after real people. In an odd turn of events, I joined a division 3 college tennis team at age 38. ↗
When you're famous, you don't get to meet people because they want you to like them when the present themselves to you, and you don't see the real people. ↗
Using the device of an imaginary world allows me in some strange way to go to the central issues - it's one of many ways to express feelings about real people, about real human relationships. ↗
I design for real people. I think of our customers all the time. There is no virtue whatsoever in creating clothing or accessories that are not practical. ↗