Quotes About Narrative

Every playoff game is kind of like its own movie.

I want my fights to be seen as plays that have a beginning, a middle and an end.

To have a film where there's an evil figure and a good person fights against the evil figure and everything becomes a happy ending, that's one way to make a film. But then that means you have to draw, as an animator, the evil figure. And it's not very pleasant to draw evil figures.

The trouble with Hollywood films is that they always have a pleasant ending.

One of my greatest pleasures is falling into a story someone else has written.

'Daredevil: Season One' is kind of in-between. On the one hand, sure, it's a graphic novel. But on the other, it's beholden to existing continuity, and we're still telling the story in issue-length chapters. So it's not that different to writing a miniseries, and I've done plenty of those.

Many of my favorite films, if someone were to tell me simply what they're about, I probably wouldn't be that interested. Plot often has so little to do with what's at the heart of a film.

I hate SF books that think all you need to make a book is cool technology and mind-bending ideas without a decent plot or characters. And I hate when fantasy books are allowed to ramble off into five hundred page diatribes which don't advance the story one bit.

Sometimes television can just jump from one bit of plot to the next, and the words fill in the in-between.

To me, action has to come from the plot.

Traditionally in crime fiction, women exist as a bedroom convenience or to screw up in order that the plot may progress. I wanted no part of that.

Sometimes I'll feel down and realise it's because of a depressing plot.

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.

Character is plot, and casting is character.

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

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.

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.

Plot is not my forte. It's like I have to live in my head in the book for a while before I figure out what the story is... My process is a bit messier.

I think action should be revealed through character, so if you have a plot problem, it's probably a character problem.

It's hard to write a good plot, it's very hard.

I feel like I know how to write plot.

I definitely feel that plot flows from character. I don't believe that you can construct a plot and insert people into it.