Quotes About Plot

I always thought there was some reason why 'Scot' rhymed with 'plot

Conflict and character are the heart of good fiction, and good mystery has both of those in spades.

You don't need to know the purpose as you write, but when you read over something you've written, you should be able to point to any given element—be that a line of dialogue, a descriptive phrase, a plot point—and say why it's there.

Audiences are always open to an interesting story.

I'm obviously interested in playing characters who have autonomy, who drive the story.

I love political dramas. I love good story-telling.

I watch a lot of TV dramas.

So much TV is drawn out.

My stories are character driven.

You never know in 'Riverdale' who's going to drop off next.

A lot of people die in my movies. So if you're in a few of my movies, you have a good chance of dying!

Well, I think if you're telling a story, a three act structure will just naturally emerge out of it. But I also love it when a film doesn't feel like it's anchored too rigidly to that structure and you feel like anything could happen.

In the writers' room, when we talk about each episode, we first talk about the character journey of the episode.

But I've never tried writing an episode of 'EastEnders', even as an exercise.

I watch episodes of 'Rosanne' now where I don't even know what the ending's going to be.

There is no better place to keep a secret than in an unfinished novel.

How long are you going to let yourself be dragged passively by the plot? You had flung yourself into the action, filled with adventurous impulses: and then? Your function was quickly reduced to that of one who records situations decided by others, who submits to whims, finds himself involved in events that elude his control. Then what use is your role as protagonist to you? If you continue lending yourself to this game, it means that you, too, are an accomplice of the general mystification.

Não há melhor lugar para se guardar um segredo que num romance inacabado.

Calabrian storytelling exhibits a rich, colorful, complex imagination, but within it the logic of the plot is often lost, leaving only the unraveling of the enchantment.

Harry was left to ponder in silence the depths to which girls would sink to get revenge.

God is not bound by time, nor is our story. We desperately want our situation to be solved. We want resolution. But, God unfolds the plot in His own time. It is in our months or years of waiting that our story comes to maturity. It is over a lifetime of stories that he turns our desire toward Him.

Everyone loves a conspiracy.

The story always starts with the character. In a way, there's no decision. If there's no character there's no story.

You know, I think the film business is its own worst enemy because it sells movies on DVD footage and 'behind the scenes ' and now it's a real struggle trying to keep storylines and plotlines a secret.