Quotes About Compelling

I think good kids TV has got to have layers. It has to have compelling characters that everyone loves, but you can't dumb it down.

As far as I'm aware, everybody in the shadow cabinet accepts that there's a compelling case on climate change and a strong scientific case.

If you can't figure out how to make the beginning of your book compelling, you're probably not writing a compelling book.

If you have some magical chemistry that actually find the music you make compelling, that is a big bonus.

If it doesn't come through the Internet, it's not really compelling to me.

You can watch any episode you want and have a compelling story being told.

All you can do is focus on telling the best story you can with compelling characters. If you do it right, it will endure. If you do it wrong, it won't.

I feel like my responsibility as an actor is to make characters as compelling and believable as possible.

I don't really think in terms of making something that is going to be bought everywhere, because I don't read those things. My writing is a process in which I try my best to make good sentences and a sequence of events that is compelling and believable.

The question of likability is a bit of a puzzler for me. You know, I don't write people with likability in mind. It's more whether or not I find them compelling.

Everyone needs some kind of compelling drama in their life, basically.

I find Australia compelling and vexatious at the best of times; I've never been able to get it out of my system since going there as a young lecturer, and yet however much I love revisiting it, I always feel I have to leave again.

Action is only really compelling when it reveals character - character revealed through action, and not action for its own sake.

There's an arc to an action sequence, and you need to come out the other end knowing your character better, and maybe the story has moved forward in a compelling way.

There was no way that I could explain to dogs, friends, or parents my compelling need to return to Africa to launch a long-term study of the gorillas.

One thing Vince McMahon does, and he does a lot of things great, but he knows how to create great television, very compelling television.

What should be driving the conversation is: What's the story? What's the movie about? Is it a compelling story? And if it is, then you make it regardless of the color of the people behind or in front of the camera.

Xbox is playing a different game. I think the Game Pass stuff is a really compelling story for them.

I want to be funny and interesting and compelling.

Kyunki' will never end. The way the story is going I don't see an end. People always complain that it's dragging along but they have to watch it every night!

I'm interested in characters that are complex people.

I've met many Holocaust survivors who find the era infinitely compelling because they have this deep hunger to understand how it all could possibly have happened.

My first job is to write a book that I believe is compelling and deserves the long sustained attention that any novel requires, and to worry about the commerce only late in the game.

As soon as people really get into the swamp - the scary swamp that is 'Fortitude' - there's no getting out of it. You need about six to seven episodes in to really go, 'This is what it's about.'