Quotes About Conflict

I kept imagining these people, just living their daily lives, and then having them suddenly ended in unjust tragedy. When we watch the news, we grieve all of this, but when we go to the movies, we want more of it. Somehow we realize that great stories are told in conflict, but we are unwilling to embrace the potential greatness of the story we are actually in. We think God is unjust, rather than a master storyteller.

The entire world is falling apart because nobody will admit they are wrong.

There is no conflict man can endure that will not produce a blessing.

There is no conflict man can endure that will not produce a blessing. And I smiled. I'm not saying I was happy, but for some reason I smiled. It hurts now, but I'll love this memory, I thought to myself. And I do.

I think that's why so many couples fight, because they want their partners to validate them and affirm them, and if they don't get that, they feel as though they're going to die. And so they lash out. But it's a terrible thing to wake up and realize the person you just finished crucifying wasn't Jesus.

I wanted it to be an easy story. But nobody really remembers easy stories. Characters have to face their greatest fears with courage. That's what makes a story good. If you think about the stories you like most, they probably have lots of conflict. There is probably death at stake, inner death or actual death, you know. These polar charges, these happy and sad things in life, are like colors God uses to draw the world.

People attack out of fear.

Just out of high school, you didn't realize you were creating drama for the sake of drama.

Good Story Loves Contrast

Characters only take action after they are challenged by an outside force.

Remember, the greatest enemy our business faces is the same enemy that good stories face: noise. At no point should we be able to pause a movie and be unable to answer three questions: 1.?What does the hero want? 2.?Who or what is opposing the hero getting what she wants? 3.?What will the hero's life look like if she does (or does not) get what she wants?

Somehow we realize that great stories are told in conflict, but we are unwilling to embrace the potential greatness of the story we are actually in.

The purpose of an external problem in a story is to manifest an internal problem.

What is the chief source of conflict that your products and services defeat?

In its purest form, a story starts with a character who lives in peace and stability. Suddenly that stability is disrupted:

in a story, there are three levels of problems that work together to capture a reader's or a moviegoer's imagination.

When he was almost two, his father was killed in battle during the Seven Years War, the world's first global combat.

In stories, the external problem is often a physical, tangible problem the hero must overcome in order to save the day.

A story is a character who wants something and overcomes conflict to get it

a story involves a character who wants something and overcomes conflict to get it.

Don't Be Passive-Aggressive

Every word, every image, and every beat in a movie is heading toward a specific scene. Sometimes called the climactic scene or the obligatory scene, this all-important scene happens at the end of the movie and it's the scene that resolves all the conflict.

There needs to be a question as to whether the character will make it, whether he will defeat the enemy or the enemy will defeat him.

Every conflict, no matter how hard, comes back to bless the protagonist if he will face his fate with courage. There is no conflict man can endure that will not produce a blessing. And I smiled. I'm not saying I was happy, but for some reason I smiled. It hurts now, but I'll love this memory, I thought to myself. And I do.