Quotes About Plot

I want to be a part of good stories. It's not about my role, but the overall story that counts.

When I'm plotting out a book, I use a storyboard - I'll have maybe three lines across on the storyboard and just start working through the plot line. I always know where relationships will go and how the book is going to end.

A director should concentrate on his storyline and his characters.

I don't care how good a song is - if it holds back the storyline, stalls the plot, your audience will reject it.

I don't always enjoy them, but when a scary movie has a really good storyline, that gets me interested.

I was a theater actor back in the U.K., and you knew the whole play, so you could plot your storyline and character. And then I did 'Lost' and didn't know, and it was kind of frustrating, but I enjoyed it.

I think anything with a serialized storyline is a perfect match for binge-watching.

'Kanchana' is not exactly a sequel. Only the character played by me is the same as in the original but the storyline is very different.

For a movie's success, comedy must blend with the storyline. Else, comedy might click but the movie will die.

That's the mark of a great storyteller, never to give away secrets in advance.

As an actor, I think a mistake that any storyteller can make is to play the ending.

In a lot of ways, TV writing taught me how to be a good storyteller. I learned about dialogue, scenes, moving the plot forward.

The don't-ask-don't-tell approach to plot and character that 'The Hurt Locker' relies on to set itself in motion doesn't offend me politically. It offends me as a storyteller.

Bausch is a wonderful storyteller. He's a mature writer who has a lot of confidence in the quality of character. He doesn't need to hook you with a sneaky plot and zany characters.

Well, I think storytellers have always found murder a fascinating device.

My interpretation of a strong director is someone who knows their story. That's what directors are, they're storytellers because they're directing where your focus is going to be as an audience.

The nature of storytelling, since the dawn of man, has a beginning, a middle, and an end.

The more a character wants and the less a character has the ability to get what they want, the more you have an endless fuel for storytelling in comedy.

Storytelling is storytelling. Good stories need compelling characters and interesting conflicts. That's the bottom line no matter what medium you're writing for.

Part of George R.R. Martin's brilliant storytelling is taking the carpet out from under your feet.

I think in some ways, you end up with more interesting storytelling with series, because if you've written yourself into a corner with something in book 1, you have to be cleverer to get out of it.

I try to naturally keep things to a manageable storytelling length, which is about two hours, so you try to cut out anything extraneous.

With any movie at all the challenge lies in the storytelling.

The plot of 'Stranger Things' is so simple that even a brief description risks spoiling it.