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I mean simply to say that I want my characters to suggest the background in themselves, even when it is not visible. I want them to be so powerfully realized that we cannot imagine them apart from their physical and social context even when we see them in empty space.

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

Before I write the first page of a novel, I spend a long time creating detailed backgrounds for my characters. I imagine the experiences that have formed them, what makes them happy, angry, fearful, and what they yearn for.

Every time when I start preparing my character for a movie, I always try to make up and create my own background story for the role in order to fill it with life.

Sometimes you read something, and you have to read more and more about the background.

Well, I think everything I've ever read contributes to the background from which I write.

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

I can move my characters through it easily, because I understand the background; I've really studied it.

I use colors to bring fine points of story and character.

I've sort of escaped my background, as people often do, through art and culture.