My background is on the stage, so when I'd write movies, they'd be a lot like plays.
My background is in theater. I was a theater major in college.
I came from a background of directing behind-the-scenes documentaries.
We've had so many lifetimes of different cultures and different religions and different points of view and different wars and different loves and different children.
I've sort of escaped my background, as people often do, through art and culture.
The best writers who have put pen to paper have often had a journalism background.
Academia is a rarified culture, especially an Ivy League academic background.
Most of my background is Filipino and partly Chinese, but mostly Filipino.
I have a strong Lutheran background, and my parents instilled in me strong morals.
We come from a tough, working class background, so we're very tight.
Merit should count more than academic background.
I had a background in theater as an actor, and then a photographer, and then as an experimental filmmaker and editor.
I come from the slums; I come from a hard background; I come from a poor family; and I was a soldier.
I was born in a family with a strong military background, so I chose to be a soldier.
As actors, you don't actually need to know the future of the character. You just need to know the backgrounds.
The Mekons were kind of like the background music of my life.
Journalism talk is part of the nonstop background noise of American life.
The American landscape has no foreground and the American mind no background.
You know, my background, I was at a non-profit for years.
I was not put here to be a background character in someone else's movie!
I'm Cuban-American, everybody says. I have a Cuban background, Cuban blood.
