Quotes of: Protagonist Keyword

But protagonists are protagonists and heroes are heroes.

David Baldacci

The main question in drama, the way I was taught, is always, 'What does the protagonist want?' That's what drama is. It comes down to that. It's not about theme, it's not about ideas, it's not about setting, but what the protagonist wants.

David Mamet

If I have a male protagonist, it's a studio movie, and if it's a female protagonist, it's an indie movie. That's just how it is. It's not about the studios. It's about America and who goes to see movies. Women are interested in men and women, and men...

Mike White

First person allows deeper insight into the protagonist's character. It allows the reader to identify more fully with the protagonist and to share her world quite intimately. So it suits a story focused on one character's personal journey. However, f...

Juliet Marillier

And here, of course, we come to the one occupation of a female protagonist in literature, the one thing she can do, and by God she does it and does it and does it, over and over and over again. She is the protagonist of a Love Story.

To Write Like a Woman: Essays in Feminism and Science Fiction

You don't need to like your protagonists.

Anson Mount

I'm interested in flawed protagonists. I was raised on them.

Laura Dern

I'm drawn particularly to stories that evolve out of the character of the protagonist.

David McCullough

That's what protagonists do. They work hard, they have a conflict, they overcome the obstacles.

Jon Heder

People always want to identify a writer with their protagonist.

Monica Ali

I'm a sucker for a screwed-up protagonist. We all have issues.

Chelsea Cain

The adolescent protagonist is one of the hallmarks of American literature.

Tayari Jones

I'm drawn to characters who bear similarities to the protagonists in myths and legends. (...)

Alan Lee

By the time you have your protagonist attempting to assassinate the Pope, you've sort of signaled that everything is on the table.

Brian K. Vaughan

There has to be a protagonist who has to overcome challenges, and there will be a race to finish.

Ashwin Sanghi

Join hands with other protagonists of love and peace and become a love commander.

Pooja Ruprell

the glory of the protagonist is always paid for by a lot of secondary characters

Love

We can't help identifying with the protagonist. It's coded in our movie-going DNA.

Roger Ebert

It is a commonplace that the League of Nations is not yet-what its most enthusiastic protagonists intended it to be.

Hjalmar Branting

People seem to need a likable protagonist more than ever.

Daniel Clowes

I think for some reason we're conditioned in movies that the protagonist must be heroic or redeemable in some way, whereas in theater, that's not a necessary.

Oscar Isaac