Quotes of: Plot Keyword

I think situations are more important than plot and character.

Harry Mathews

I think a lot of composers get into trouble just making up a plot and expecting an audience to follow that.

John Eaton

Wake the power within thee slumbering, trim the plot that's in thy keeping, thou wilt bless the task when reaping sweet labour's prize.

John Stuart Blackie

When a book is just a plot, you know, two men fight for the love of a woman in a wild frontier, I immediately ask, 'Why?'

Nicolas Roeg

Movies are all about plot. Theater, even if it's story heavy, it's about ideas. Theater has to resonate in your heart in a way that movies don't.

Harvey Fierstein

Truth may be stranger than fiction on a plot and narrative basis, but fiction can investigate tone in a way that things based on a true story can't.

Ray McKinnon

Language is the ticket to plot and character, after all, because both are built out of language.

Aimee Bender

People talk about the plots and what happened, and they see your tricks a mile away.

Terence Winter

Stars are the souls of old sailors. They plot the skies and guide the wayward home.

The Dawning of Power

He had the feeling that there was something physically behind his eyes, blocking the light.

The Marriage Plot

ERRORS ARE WHAT MAKE US HUMAN. PLOT TWIST: I'M A HORSE.

Slaves to Do These Things

Anything devised by man has bureaucracy, corrpution and error hardwired at inception.

The Well of Lost Plots

The thing should have plot and character, beginning, middle and end. Arouse pity and then have a catharsis. Those were the best principles I was ever taught.

Anne Rice

There must be a better reason to have a baby than to provide a plot point in a rom-com. Don't you think?

Roger Ebert

'Ocean's Kingdom' is a fairy story with no subtext, no resonance - it's not about anything except its water-logged plot.

Robert Gottlieb

My key interest in choosing scripts is character-driven stories, because there are so many stories that sacrifice character for plot.

Lasse Hallstrom

I've never sat down and thought about the difference between plot and theme. To me, that's never been important.

Len Wein

I've paid the price; I definitely have a reputation that precedes me, and there is a camp that plots my demise. But then again... it's funner that way.

Rufus Wainwright

I tend not to know what the plot is or the story is or even the theme. Those things come later, for me.

Michael Ondaatje

You have to have a plot too, you know? Because without it, your life is less of a story and more of an empty paper.

Nema Al-Araby

Plot, rules, nor even poetry, are not half so great beauties in tragedy or comedy as a just imitation of nature, of character, of the passions and their operations in diversified situations.

Horace Walpole