Quotes of: Protagonist Keyword

Once a newspaper touches a story, the facts are lost forever, even to the protagonists.

Norman Mailer

I think that ultimately any effective drama or tragedy tries to put you as much as it can into the protagonist's shoes.

Nicholas Jarecki

Because there is actually something very interesting in Goodfellas, how the style of the film changes as time goes by and based on the mental state of the protagonist.

Alex Cox

If the reader is rooting for the protagonist, they'll forgive you just about everything else.

Andy Weir

'Argo,' 'Lincoln,' and 'Zero Dark Thirty,' three films honored with Best Picture Oscar nominations, lionize their Washington-anchored protagonists as crafty, competent, and virtually incorruptible.

Ron Fournier

In the past, I'll admit, I've enjoyed being compared to the protagonists in my screenplays.

Diablo Cody

I loved films of the '70s with those antihero protagonists who you don't know if you can get behind because their behavior is really questionable.

Nicholas Jarecki

I always felt a little worm inside me: 'Now you need to write a novel with a woman protagonist.'

Carlos Fuentes

We 'chicks' have munched our popcorn while romantic comedies became just comedies, and then each female protagonist got recast for Matthew McConaughey or Seth Rogan.

Emma McLaughlin

Women are never the protagonists; we're always reactionary against everything that's done to us. I like people who write for women that have got a bit more about them.

Neve McIntosh

The depth of any story is proportionate to the protagonist's commitment to their goal, the complexity of the problem, and the grace of the solution.

Beyond the Mountain

Everyone talks to their dog, and then in your mind the dog talks back. A talking dog can provide the words that a stunted protagonist finds difficult to muster.

Mike Mills

Since so many romantic comedies vary little in their storyline, the success or failure of such movies depends largely on whether we believe in the relationship of the protagonists.

Mariella Frostrup

With the crime novels, it's delightful to have protagonists I can revisit in book after book. It's like having a fictitious family.

John Banville

While books provided me with some escape from the mental and physical horrors of my early life, they were unreliable. Many times the protagonists suffered terribly and then died at the end.

Sherrilyn Kenyon

We may think of ourselves as static anti-heroes, but in reality we're dynamic protagonists just waiting for our courage to kick in.

Justin Alcala

The black person is the protagonist in most of my paintings. I realized that I didn't see many paintings with black people in them.

Jean-Michel Basquiat

Look at the Coen brothers. All their minor characters are as interesting as their protagonists. If the smaller characters are well-written, the whole world of the film becomes enriched. It's not the size of the thing, but the detail.

Brendan Gleeson

Over time, it's occurred to me that my protagonists all originate in some aspect of myself that I find myself questioning or feeling uncomfortable about.

Julia Glass

The idea in The Man that Would Be King was that the music should recreate all that majestic surrounding and emphasize the adventure, but also speak about the frustration or, rather said, the curse of both protagonists, even before happened what happe...

Maurice Jarre

A lot of crime fiction writing is also lazy. Personality is supposed to be shown by the protagonist's taste in music, or we're told that the hero looks like the young Cary Grant. Film is the medium these writers are looking for.

Peter Temple