#plots

We inherit plots. There are only two or three in the world, five or six at most. We ride them like treadmills. ↗

— Janette Turner Hospital

#inherit #like #most #only #plots

I always start with characters rather than with a plot, which many critics would say is very obvious from the lack of plot in my films - although I think they do have plots - but the plot is not of primary importance to me, the characters are. ↗

— Jim Jarmusch

#always #characters #critics #films #i

Music conveys moods and images. Even in opera, where plots deal with the structure of destiny, it's music, not words, that provides power. ↗

— Marcel Marceau

#deal #destiny #even #images #moods

I look for material that both interest me and challenges me. If I am drawn to the material and I have to work hard at it, the characters and the plots reflect the hours and hours of research. ↗

— David Baldacci

#both #challenges #characters #drawn #hard