“the glory of the protagonist is always paid for by a lot of secondary characters” — Tony Hoagland Copy Share Image
Make the audience wonder what's going on by putting them in the same position as the protagonist. — David Mamet Copy Share Image
I'm kind of a dummy. I make movies and not realize until afterwards, 'Oh, I'm the protagonist.' — Bobcat Goldthwait Copy Share Image
I always find something in common with my protagonist, particularly when I write in the first person. — Emily Giffin Copy Share Image
As you get older, you realize you're only the protagonist in your own story and a blip in someone else's life. — Jenny Zhang Copy Share Image
My thing is whether my film is small, I am still playing the protagonist. — Rahul Roy Copy Share Image
“You're the absolute protagonist of this book, very well; but do you believe that gives you the right to have carnal relations… — Italo Calvino Copy Share Image
“You're both the fire and the water that extinguishes it. You're the narrator, the protagonist, and the sidekick. You're the storyteller and… — John Green Copy Share Image
American and Vietnamese characters alike leap to life through the voice and eyes of a tenyearold girl-a protagonist so strong, loving, and… — Mitali Perkins Copy Share Image
“You don't really understand an antagonist until you understand why he's a protagonist in his own version of the world.” — John Rogers Copy Share Image
I think there has to be an empathic strike between the reader and the protagonist. There has to be something said or… — Michael Connelly Copy Share Image
My intent is not to inflame Muslims but to entertain readers of great thrillers. At the end of the day, I want… — Brad Thor Copy Share Image
We're always steered towards what is good in the canon by a male perspective. I like to do plays with a female… — Marianne Elliott Copy Share Image
I often meet directors who want to cast me as the protagonist, but if the rest of the characters are not strong… — Dimple Kapadia Copy Share Image
Most modern science fiction went to school on 'Dune.' Even 'Harry Potter' with its 'boy protagonist who has not yet grown into… — Gary Ross Copy Share Image
In my career, I've often played the protagonist or the hero of the movie, and there are so many rules inherent to… — Ryan Phillippe Copy Share Image
Race is the true protagonist of the American novel. Our most popular classic fictions have known this, from 'Moby Dick' to 'Beloved;'… — Kevin Young Copy Share Image
“And here, of course, we come to the one occupation of a female protagonist in literature, the one thing she can do,… — Joanna Russ Copy Share Image
I started writing novels while an undergraduate student, in an attempt to make sense of the city of Edinburgh, using a detective… — Ian Rankin Copy Share Image
If I have a male protagonist, it's a studio movie, and if it's a female protagonist, it's an indie movie. That's just… — Mike White Copy Share Image
'Black Swan' does what Hollywood movies have always done - it spends its energies on getting some surface things right while getting… — Robert Gottlieb Copy Share Image
“And you look like a protagonist.” She was talking as fast as she could think. “You look like the person who wins… — Rainbow Rowell Copy Share Image
“From there, a more difficult period began. Even the villains, the world's worst people, the one percent, what have you, imagine themselves… — Alex Kudera Copy Share Image
“Damn, damn, damn," she said. "I never said why I like you, and now I have to go." "That's okay," he said.… — Rainbow Rowell Copy Share Image
“How long are you going to let yourself be dragged passively by the plot? You had flung yourself into the action, filled… — Italo Calvino Copy Share Image
“I wanted to be Feinberg's student, but I didn't know how to go about it. Since it was premature for formal arrangements… — Emanuel Derman Copy Share Image
“(Tania Unsworth) writes of a time when she was a “girl of eleven, with a flashlight under the covers, devouring The Chronicles… — Tania Unsworth Copy Share Image
“A circular plot structure, often seen in adventure novels and quest fantasies, is a narrative devise involving setting, character, and theme. Typically… — Carl M. Tomlinson Copy Share Image
“The viewpoint character in each story is usually someone trapped in a living nightmare, but this doesn't guarantee that we and the… — Francis M. Nevins Copy Share Image
“There is one final point, the point that separates a true multivolume work from a short story, a novel, or a series.… — Gene Wolfe Copy Share Image
We must always give preference to the collective. We have to play as Brazil. Nobody is a lone protagonist. — Gabriel Jesus Copy Share Image
Eric Carter is a more raw, more emotional protagonist. He's a bit of an Everyman. — Corey Hawkins Copy Share Image
Since Dhanush is the protagonist of my first film, he proved to be my lucky charm. — Aishwarya R. Dhanush Copy Share Image
