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I do build my own backstory as an actor. It's important to know where your characters have come from in order to know where they're going - in order to exist in that state of being.

A lot of actors, whatever movie you're working on, you make up a back story just for your own, to work off, even if the audience doesn't have it revealed to them. I think it's important that the audience makes up their own mind.

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.

My mentor Jon Simmons introduced me to the Stanislavski system, which is so heavy on back-story. So you write and write and write these back stories about a character and then you throw it away. So then on set, if it doesn't come, then you didn't do your work.

I write and draw from the gut. I often don't know what my stories are about until they're done.

Like most writers, I just create because I have a story to tell, really.

I'm not really one of those people who goes and writes some big back story and agonizes over characters. I think you kind of can get it. For me personally, it's just kind of more instinctive. But I don't have kind of an acting background. I fell into it accidentally.

When I develop a character, I usually start by creating a backstory with whatever information I have access to.

I'm not famous for my back story investigations; I'm lucky that I work with good writers and it's usually in the script.

I like having my own story remain my story.