At the end of the day, if you don't identify with the main characters, no television show will work. — Hiro Murai Copy Share Image
Adults need more complex narratives. They have their own narratives. The main characters are themselves. — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
With a film, things constantly have to go up in the story, and you're constantly putting pressure on the main character. It… — Jennifer Lee Copy Share Image
There's no great movie where you haven't been emotionally connected to the main character. — Harald Zwart Copy Share Image
Stay humble to the craft and never forget how much it actually takes to be the main character of a documentary. — Nicole Nielsen Horanyi Copy Share Image
I saw the main character played by Mads Mikkelsen, and he's amazing. Hannibal had that going for it. — Michael Pitt Copy Share Image
The main character and the most important character are not always the same person - you have to know the difference. — John Irving Copy Share Image
“It’s just funny, isn’t it? How the main characters never know about the adventures they’re about to go on.” — Brittainy C. Cherry Copy Share Image
Sometimes I'm stressed and I'm sick of things and I need to forget about them for a while, so in Harry Potter… — Evanna Lynch 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
Even on a large ensemble where their parts are relatively small - because having ten main characters obviously affects their screen time… — John Hillcoat Copy Share Image
There wasn't much said, but I was thinking, perhaps unkindly - not unkindly,but on - inaccurately of Theodore Dreiser's "Carrie," when the… — Nat Hentoff Copy Share Image
Le lecteur, lui non plus, ne voit pas les choses du dehors. Il est dans le labyrinthe aussi. The reader [as well… — Alain Robbe-Grillet Copy Share Image
I think the female first-person is still dismissed, demonized, especially if the book does not end on an empowering note, especially if… — Kate Zambreno Copy Share Image
I would love to play a main character and then play different characters as well. I would want for it to be… — Brandy Norwood Copy Share Image
The only way to change the world is to change the main character of our story - the one we believe that… — Miguel Angel Ruiz Copy Share Image
Danny Boyle has been a huge, has had a huge effect on me. His movies, early movies like Trainspotting and those movies.… — Fredrik Bond Copy Share Image
The editor, Stephen Segal, actually called me with the idea of creating an accordion book [ "The Thorn & The Blossom"], and… — Theodora Goss Copy Share Image
Introduce your main characters and themes in the first third of your novel. If you are writing a plot-driven genre novel make… — Michael Moorcock Copy Share Image
It's not racism per se but the tyranny of normalcy - no: the tyranny of attractive normalcy. Which leads to loveable white… — Sandra Tsing Loh Copy Share Image
My stories usually begin with the characters and some elements of how power (personal, political, magical) functions in the world. The rest… — Leigh Bardugo Copy Share Image
Make sure your characters are worth spending ten hours with. That’s how long it takes to read a book. Reading a book… — Po Bronson Copy Share Image
A comic book is the opposite of a cartoon. In a cartoon, you want to simplify the idea, so when they look… — Sergio Aragones Copy Share Image
I first heard the term "meta-novel" at a writer's conference in Tulsa, Oklahoma. The idea is that even though each book in… — Carolyn Wheat Copy Share Image
There's something in psychology called the narrative paradigm, which essentially means that we think of our lives as stories in which we… — Aleksandar Hemon Copy Share Image
I feel like when you're dealing with your main character, it has to be relatable and feel grounded, and that's the kind… — Alia Shawkat Copy Share Image
The writer's job is to get the main character up a tree, and then once they are up there, throw rocks at… — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
Once you're imagining being the main character, and you're having the conversations and actually being there, the magic in fiction writing takes… — Will Hobbs Copy Share Image
Writing a new film about cereal killers. Not serial killers, cereal killers. The main character can eat two, three boxes at a… — Dov Davidoff Copy Share Image
That's just part of being in 'X-Men.' There's, like, 20 main characters, and 15 of them are household names, so obviously you're… — Aaron Stanford Copy Share Image
It is only in romances that people undergo a sudden metamorphosis. In real life, even after the most terrible experiences, the main… — Isadora Duncan Copy Share Image
To be honest, I don't think of any of my characters as minor characters - they're all the main characters in a… — Robin Hobb Copy Share Image
We are all the main characters in our stories so we should right the ending of how it should be ourselves. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Yes, I do feel the world revolves around me. After all, I am the main character of my own life. — Stefanie Schneider Copy Share Image
Beware 'good' main characters who have a limited repertory of culturally acceptable feelings, while your evil bastards have a full range of… — Bill Johnson Copy Share Image
When I'm writing a script, I don't worry about plot as much as I do about people. I get to know the… — Mel Brooks Copy Share Image
Conventional forms of narrative allow for different points of view, but for this book I wanted a structure whereby each of the… — Penelope Lively Copy Share Image
I wouldn't think of my characters' moralities at all. And I think I identify fully with every main character I've written about… — Tao Lin Copy Share Image
A Thousand Pardons began at the beginning. I wanted it to be one continuous, almost breathless kind of story. In order to… — Jonathan Dee Copy Share Image
The main characters for 'The Seer and the Sword' made an appearance one night and then haunted me for over five years… — Victoria Hanley Copy Share Image
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