Quotes About Plot

Sometimes if you tell me what a story is about in just a few sentences, I can tell you if it's going to be a success.

The cast of 'Fukrey' will remain the same in the sequel. But the story is more of a fresh one.

I love serial drama.

The only problem with a TV serial is you never know where it will go.

When I work on a novel, I usually have one character and a setting in mind.

With both novels and short stories, I think a lot in terms of character arcs, when it comes to endings.

I've always wanted a movie where the bad guy came out on top. It would shock the world.

I love the idea of stories being about great beginnings and terrible endings.

It would not take much to have the throats of every Abolitionist cut. —Preston Brooks of South Carolina, 1856 Judge Taney can do many things, but he cannot perform impossibilities….He cannot change the essential nature of things—making evil good, and good evil. —Frederick Douglass, on the Dred Scott decision, 1857 I clearly see, as I think, a powerful plot to make slavery universal and perpetual in this nation. —Abraham Lincoln, 1858

However appalling to consider, however tedious to enact, every novel requires furniture, whether it is to be named or unnamed, for the characters will be unable to remain in standing position for the duration of the story.

The central problem of novel-writing is causality.

Their books are also different. Works of fiction contain a single plot, with all its imaginable permutations. Those of a philosophical nature invariably include both the thesis and the antithesis, the rigorous pro and con of a doctrine. A book which does not contain its counterbook is considered incomplete.

a gun in a film is so culturally specific to America. It looks odd in world cinema unless it's ironic. I wonder if there are more balls in English films than guns, more nipples in French films. Guns in America's story are a constant, a plot device, like coffee cups in European films. Guns are Hollywood.

Obviously a fake Kyp. You distract him. I'll shoot him under the table." Han (to Leia)

The story is the important thing.

Life is like a movie, you never know what happens at the end.

We shall perish by guile just as we slew.

Permítame que le haga una pregunta. ¿Qué convierte en buena una historia? –La credibilidad.

Alain Robbe-Grillet once wrote that the worst thing to happen to the novel was the arrival of psychology.

I think it is important that you care about the characters, and you are not just waiting for the next action sequence but have a vested interested in what happens to them.

I think too often in films, people think endings are a summation of plot, and I don't like that. Because once you know where you're going as an audience member, then it's like a video game. You're just waiting for them to get through the levels and beat the bad guy. And I just think that's boring.

My favorite films are the ones that I walk away from and I know I saw a story.

You can always tell in a movie when they are setting you up for something. If someone leaves an important object on the table and walks away, the camera will have some way of indicating that to you.

'100 Bullets' is a novel on its own. 'Brother Lono,' other than the main character, has nothing to do with '100 Bullets.'