Read the passage from "Plays and Players," an interview with Robert G. Ingersoll, New York Dramatic Mirror, December 26, 1891.

Question: What place does the theatre hold among the arts?
Answer: Nearly all the arts unite in the theatre, and it is the result of the best, the highest, the most artistic, that man can do.

Read this sentence from the interview:
"He must be familiar with many people, including the lowest and the highest, so that he may give to others, clothed with flesh and blood, the characters born of the poet's brain."

How does the line "characters born of the poet's brain" affect the meaning of the interview?

A. It suggests that without the playwright's imagination, actors would not have good characters to portray.
B. It conveys the idea that good actors can portray all kinds of people.
C. It indicates that great actors bring the characters the playwright imagined to life.
D. It implies that actors, through their craft, must become other people.