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I tend to favour films that have multiple plot and story lines, multiple characters and ensemble pieces.
Plot is merely the mechanism by which your character is forced up against her deepest fears and desires.
All good plots come from well-orchestrated characters pitted against one another in a conflict of wills.
There must be a better reason to have a baby than to provide a plot point in a rom-com. Don't you think?
The king died and then the queen died is a story. The king died, and then queen died of grief is a plot.
But people will do anything rather than admit that their lives have no meaning. No use, that is. No plot.
A story to me means a plot where there is some surprise. Because that is how life is - full of surprises.
I'm frustrated when I see movies in which I feel like the plot is being told to me instead of shown to me.
Certain writers look down their noses at plot, and I think I might have been one of them until I tried it.
Sometimes television can just jump from one bit of plot to the next, and the words fill in the in-between.
Discovered W. Somerset Maugham in about 5th grade. Didn't understand the plots, but loved the descriptions.
Plots are no more exhausted than men are. Every man is a new creation, and combinations are simply endless.
I think a lot of composers get into trouble just making up a plot and expecting an audience to follow that.
Every couple I know has side-by-side grave plots, but when we do it we're the biggest weirdos on the block.
Some movies I see today have the most dramatic plot points but the actors are not playing them dramatically.
Here's the plot of 'Interstellar.' Refugees - they're known as Democrats - they're looking for a new planet.
Sometimes I feel that the world is made up of sensible people who know the plot and bloody idiots who don't.
The only way I could finish a book and get a plot was just to keep making it longer until something happens.
Plots and character don't make life. Life is here and now, anytime you say the word, anytime you let her rip.
Anyone who has ever tried to plot a detective mystery knows that the hardest thing to come up with is motive.
In tragic life, God wot, No villain need be! Passions spin the plot: We are betrayed by what is false within.
I have a superstition that if I talk about plot, it's like letting sand out of a hole in the bottom of a bag.
Hindi film music has always been completely driven by the plot. We singers never had any say in compositions.
Good characters the reader cares about combined with an intriguing plot. Do those two and you've got it made.
Once somebody's aware of a plot, it's like a bone sticking out. If it breaks through the skin, it's very ugly.
There's that old adage about how there's only seven plots in the world and Shakespeare's done them all before.
Most conspiracy theorists dont understand this. But if there really were a CIA plot, no documents would exist.
I'm probably more character-driven than plot-driven. It's rare for me to attach myself to an idea for a story.
Soils and national characters differ, but fairy tales are the same in plot and incidents, if not in treatment.
All plot comes from the character's trying to get something, to achieve something, wanting, desiring, longing.
All great rebellions are born of private acts of civil disobedience that inspire rebel bands to plot together.
We inherit plots. There are only two or three in the world, five or six at most. We ride them like treadmills.
I think I'm good at metaphors and descriptions. Plot doesn't come naturally to me, so I work really hard at it.
I tried writing out a plot with the second or third novel I wrote, and it was so boring, so desperately boring.
I was attempting to write the story of my life. It wasn't so much about plot. It was much more about character.
I never plot out my novels in terms of the tone of the book. Hopefully, once a story is begun it reveals itself
Character is half the reason we read. We're excited because of the plot, but we care because of the 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 believe that the writer should tell a story. I believe in plot. I believe in creating characters and suspense.
I never plot out my novels in terms of the tone of the book. Hopefully, once a story is begun it reveals itself.
I've never sat down and thought about the difference between plot and theme. To me, that's never been important.
When you are drawing characters to serve a plot purpose, you tend to get flat, stereotyped, unliving characters.
I don't care how good a song is - if it holds back the storyline, stalls the plot, your audience will reject it.
Compelling characters are not cogs in the machine of your plot; they are human beings to whom the story happens.
Plot a murder, you're saying. But every plot is a murder in effect. To plot is to die, whether we know it or not.
My outlines can be 10-20 pages in length and focus primarily on the physical active plot over the emotional plot.
I've always been the opposite of a paranoid. I operate as if everyone is part of a plot to enhance my well-being.
I've always read suspense, so raising the stakes to life and death situations in my romance plots seemed natural.
What terrifies me? When I read about plots of evil taking over the world and obliterating women's hard-won rights.
I don't plot my books rigidly, follow a preconceived structure. A novel mustn't be a closed system - it's a quest.