Absolutely Quote by Paul Haggis

I love working fictional characters into a piece of history. It plays to my strengths, which are characterization and dialogue, and assists me in…

— Laurie Graham

I don't have a clear biography of my own that I could recount in an interesting way. I'm made up of the characters that…

— Olga Tokarczuk

There will be some trouble about 'biography' because I have never troubled myself to supply particulars of my early life to any writer.

— Arthur Wing Pinero

I think of the biopics I've written as exploring a more grown-up side of myself, through other characters' lives.

— Dustin Lance Black

The part of my life where my character was defined was at work because of the decisions I make and the things I do,…

— Jed Mercurio

When I was young and easily outraged, I would be upset when every fictional character I created was somehow reduced to 'autobiography.'

— Peter Carey

Generally my instinct is to not do biographical movies. I want to build characters and not be locked into playing a part in history.

— Nicolas Cage

I find that biographical material holds me back, hampers my creative process, cramps my imagination.

— Yuriy Tarnawsky

Every single film I've done, it's about the character.

— Idris Elba

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

— V. S. Naipaul

I look back at my career when I was younger and can connect what I was going through at the time with the characters…

— Jodie Foster

In each of my characters there is a little of me. Not strictly autobiographical but a little piece of my soul.

— Dario Argento