Always Quote by Dexter Fletcher

I never liked the whole idea of [creating your own] background, if it's not pertinent, where the character lived as a child, and who…

— Maria Bello

I create my own backstory regardless of if I'm told something about the background or not. There's always more that you can develop in…

— Regina King

I mean simply to say that I want my characters to suggest the background in themselves, even when it is not visible. I want…

— Michelangelo Antonioni

You don't necessarily get the background of a character every time, So, you have to create it mentally and write about it. This is…

— Sanya Malhotra

The backgrounds by design are a very key part of the conversation, because I want a kind of fight or pressure to exist between…

— Kehinde Wiley

Whenever I have had to write fiction, I've always had to invent a character who roughly has my background.

— V. S. Naipaul

I want my characters to suggest the background in themselves, even when it is not visible. I want them to be so powerfully realized…

— Michelangelo Antonioni

I understand that I may make mistakes with characters who don't share my own background, but I commit to doing my best.

— Kelley Armstrong

Before I write the first page of a novel, I spend a long time creating detailed backgrounds for my characters. I imagine the experiences…

— Lisa Kleypas

Every time when I start preparing my character for a movie, I always try to make up and create my own background story for…

— Sibel Kekilli

Don't worry about your background, whether it's odd or ordinary, use it, build on it.

— Gloria Steinem

To create characters, one must build background. And one of the tools we use is improvisation

— Harvey Keitel