Quotes About Plot

I'm not like a Sears Catalog of ideas. I don't have that many ideas. I've more or less written them over the years. Usually, I come up with a situation or a character, and it rattles around in my head until the story or the plot emerges.

I just focus on getting the first scene right, with a few lines about the overall plot, and then the book grows organically.

My key interest in choosing scripts is character-driven stories, because there are so many stories that sacrifice character for plot.

I think I'm good at metaphors and descriptions. Plot doesn't come naturally to me, so I work really hard at it.

I like to allow a story to arise as I'm writing scripts. I find it horrible when I try to think of something for the plot without really being on the ground and seeing where it goes.

The biographical novel sets out to document this truth, for character is plot, character development is action, and character fulfillment is resolution.

'Liv and Maddie' actually started out as a different show called 'Bits and Pieces,' and it was a completely different plot, although it was the same cast.

I did green screen for the first time! I wouldn't like to do a whole movie of green screen, though. You kind of forget the plot a little - like being in a Broadway play and doing it over and over and forgetting your line halfway through.

There is one plot point in one of the 'D'Arnath' books that I don't think I handled as well as I could have. Am I going to tell you which one? No way!

I find inspiration in many places. Sometimes music gives me the kernel of a story. Sometimes it's dissatisfaction with the plot of a movie or a book that gets me thinking. Sometimes it's love of a movie or book.

Character is plot, and casting is character.

It is very challenging to make a fresh screenplay based on a used plot.

I'm always writing about character first. Plot, such as it is, comes from the characters.

I am done with the cliched heroine roles. I can't go to work without a challenge. I want to do films that drive me, films in which I am a part of the main plot.

I know my fans want me on the screen. But I think hero-worship should not be allowed to corrupt the plot and narrative of a film.

All we think about is how to keep the audience engaged, and normally we're big on plot because that's the easy way to do it.

One of the issues with the fight scene - especially with actors - is that when the adrenaline gets going you lose the plot. Before you know it, you've hit somebody and you've hit them harder than you meant to.

What the devil does the plot signify, except to bring in fine things?

Now I start my diary of my personal plot to kill by pistol either Richard Nixon or George Wallace.

In order to have a plot, you have to have a conflict, something bad has to happen.

I think with musicals, it's much more part of the script. They don't want songs that would stop the show; they need songs that keep the plot moving.

Once you have invented a character with three dimensions and a voice, you begin to realize that some of the things you'd like him to do to further your plot are things that such a person wouldn't, or couldn't, do.

The idea that I'm going to have to sit down to write some fiction where I'm going to have to think of a plot would really scare me, because it would come out a mess.

Normally I start with a plot, and write a synopsis, and the ideas come from the construction.