#plot

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

#character #comedy #diversified #even #great

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

— Len Wein

#been #between #difference #down #i

To me, it all comes down to things being character-driven. It's hard for me to look beyond that. CG and all this cool stuff - so be it. But to me, it pretty much begins and ends with character-driven plots rather than technologically-driven plots. ↗

— Billy West

#being #beyond #character-driven #comes #cool

There's that old adage about how there's only seven plots in the world and Shakespeare's done them all before. ↗

— Terri Windling

#adage #before #done #how #old

The so-called commercialism includes elements like story, plots, rhythms and large big scenes. ↗

— Zhang Yimou

#commercialism #elements #includes #large #like

I don't like to go to the movies to see violence or some kind of spy thing with all kinds of information you have to assimilate to understand the plot. ↗

— Pia Zadora

#go #i #information #kind #kinds

I always try to tell a good story, one with a compelling plot that will keep the pages turning. That is my first and primary goal. Sometimes I can tackle an issue-homelessness, tobacco litigation, insurance fraud, the death penalty-and wrap a good story around it. ↗

— John Grisham

#around #compelling #death #death penalty #first

All the plots of hell and commotions on earth have not so much as shaken God's hand to spoil one letter or line he has been drawing. ↗

— William Gurnall

#drawing #earth #god #hand #hell

I better make the plot good. I wanted to make it grip people on the first page and have a big turning point in the middle, as there is, and construct the whole thing like a roller coaster ride. ↗

— Mark Haddon

#big #coaster #construct #first #good

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

— Lasse Hallstrom

#character #character-driven #choosing #interest #key