Character Quote by Sanya Malhotra

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

I always devise a background so that it makes what your character goes through logical and keeps up the continuity.

— Dexter Fletcher

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 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 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

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

— V. S. Naipaul

I always get sort of an image of what the character is gonna look like and then I kind of go with it.

— Joel Kinnaman

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

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

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

— Harvey Keitel

With a photograph, you are left with the same modes of interpretation as you are with a book. You ask: 'What do we know…

— Joel Sternfeld