I don't plan in terms of career ambitions. The only career ambition I have is to work with people who are going to bring you up and elevate your performance. They'll let you know things that you didn't know already and bring you places that you might not have gotten to otherwise.
No, I feel like my personality probably influenced the character, more than the character influenced me.
Creativity has more to do with the elimination of the inessential than with inventing something new.