Because there is actually something very interesting in Goodfellas, how the style of the film changes as time goes by and based… — Alex Cox Copy Share Image
My writing is a very authentic journey of discovery. I'm going out there to learn who I am. My readers, consequently, take… — Ted Dekker Copy Share Image
In most films - especially in regards to the protagonist - really from the get-go they set up some scenario that endears… — Joaquin Phoenix Copy Share Image
In a movie, you're just passive; you're just watching a story that is told to you. But in games, I saw that… — David Cage Copy Share Image
“there are books which you can't tell people about, books so special and rare and yours that advertising your affection feels like… — John Green Copy Share Image
Quite often my narrator or protagonist may be a man, but I'm not sure he's the more interesting character, or if the… — Ann Beattie Copy Share Image
What happens with a good score is, somehow the composer manages to cast himself or herself in the role of the protagonist.… — James Newton Howard Copy Share Image
Any claim to actual identification as a drama must rest upon the construction of a plot independent of the assignment of affliction… — David Mamet Copy Share Image
I can't tell you the number of stories I've told with a female protagonist don't get bought, or they do get bought… — Allison Schroeder Copy Share Image
It would have been easier to have a male protagonist, but I didn't want people to assume that Nikki Hill was me… — Christopher Darden Copy Share Image
You couldn't escape the literary atmosphere in our home. I grew up as a Britisher. I played a protagonist of every nationality… — Satya Bhabha Copy Share Image
I wanted to be in a costume drama. Yes, I like them. I enjoy the leap of imagination and the richer-than-modern-language they… — Paterson Joseph Copy Share Image
It may sound very strange, but I love the freedom that writing a novel gives me. It is an unhindered experience. If… — Ashwin Sanghi Copy Share Image
Mindi Scott has a real talent for getting inside her protagonist's head. She sketches out Coley's story in grand swathes, and then… — Amber Benson Copy Share Image
With my earlier books, I got quite bored being with one protagonist all the way through. With the Alex Morrow books, I… — Denise Mina Copy Share Image
Every novel deals with social problems. It can't help it because the protagonist must come in conflict with his group. So the… — Jane Smiley Copy Share Image
There's something about film that offers this opportunity to stick to a very, very clear single protagonist's point of view, and I… — Andrew Haigh Copy Share Image
Raven's always trying to do the best she can for the group. Aside from the couple of mistakes she's made, she's always… — Lindsey Morgan Copy Share Image
I've always felt that it didn't feel right for me when a protagonist goes through a storyline where they're killing a lot… — Yoko Taro Copy Share Image
“EVERY STORY HAS AN ANTAGONIST and a protagonist. Hero and villain. Good and evil. Yada, yada, yada. Thing is, I bet in… — Anne Malcom Copy Share Image
In 'Yours Truly,' I was the centre of the story; I was the protagonist. There was a lot more happening inside the… — Soni Razdan Copy Share Image
I had been struggling with how to create a child-like protagonist's voice without making it sound as though I was 'dumbing down'… — An Na Copy Share Image
Anytime you have a female protagonist, it's going to turn into some feminist angle, and it's not a conscious thing on my… — Elisabeth Moss Copy Share Image
Mr. Rogers would not make a good protagonist of a narrative film. He's without conflict, he's too far along on his journey… — Marielle Heller Copy Share Image
I started writing 'Leaves Of Grass' when my professional life was falling apart somewhat. I just had a movie implode in pre-production.… — Tim Blake Nelson Copy Share Image
We tend to think of orphans as being the protagonist of stories we read when we're kids, and yet here you are:… — Sandra Cisneros Copy Share Image
The orphan in children's literature allows the child protagonist to move the story forward themselves. I think that, however happy a family,… — Brian Selznick Copy Share Image
I write what I like to read, and I enjoy love triangles in YA and adult fiction - not to mention in… — Kresley Cole Copy Share Image
In 'A Bone in the Throat,' he describes his protagonist and alter ego, the cook Tommy Pagano, as 'darker, and not as… — Sarah Weinman Copy Share Image
“It is only in fiction that the protagonist moves in a single minded, one point focus, screening out everything that isn't related… — Susan Wittig Albert Copy Share Image
I love to play with the notion of who the protagonist is - who is the audience supposed to root for? I… — Taylor Sheridan Copy Share Image
Also, getting the chance to play a supporting part meant that I didn't have to do as much as the protagonist, such… — Ben Affleck Copy Share Image
I love taking a character and raining holy hell down on them and seeing how they respond, how they react. It's one… — Blake Crouch Copy Share Image
My foray into young adult lit was by no means planned. I wrote the first 'Alfred Kropp' book as an adult novel,… — Rick Yancey Copy Share Image
The fictional world seems larger, seems to have more dimension and richness when, for example, the protagonist from one novel you've read… — Paul Harding Copy Share Image
The way I wanted to write it, is with a hero, or sort of a pure character who was the protagonist. And… — John Wozniak Copy Share Image
You can write a radical Norwegian or a conservative Norwegian. And when I changed to a conservative Norwegian, I gained this distance… — Karl Ove Knausgaard Copy Share Image
What helped me a lot was that I chose an American lead protagonist, because that liberated a lot from my own knowledge.… — Karan Bajaj Copy Share Image
“The male author unthinkingly creates a world in which every single member of society is male except—hey presto!—when the protagonist feels like… — Howard Mittelmark Copy Share Image
A lot of crime fiction writing is also lazy. Personality is supposed to be shown by the protagonist's taste in music, or… — Peter Temple Copy Share Image