“the glory of the protagonist is always paid for by a lot of secondary characters” — Tony Hoagland Copy Share Image
I'd been upstaged, demoted from protagonist in my own drama to comic relief in my parents' tragedy — Alison Bechdel 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
With a horror movie, you're making a metaphor. You're making a personalized nightmare for the protagonist. — Jordan Peele 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
That's what protagonists do. They work hard, they have a conflict, they overcome the obstacles. — Jon Heder Copy Share Image
In the past, I'll admit, I've enjoyed being compared to the protagonists in my screenplays. — Diablo Cody Copy Share Image
It was great to essentially have two protagonists where you're sympathies could go back and forth between the two of them, throughout… — Tony Goldwyn Copy Share Image
I like getting under the skin of the protagonists of every book I read, it makes the whole story so much more… — Shweta Bachchan Nanda Copy Share Image
I couldn't imagine what Fox thought they were doing, contemplating such a jagged protagonist for a prime-time drama. I only knew that… — Hugh Laurie Copy Share Image
Fiction is about human beings, first and foremost. (It's not impossible to write fiction with no human protagonists, but it's very hard… — Charles Stross Copy Share Image
I'd love to write something for a male protagonist. That's sort of the next frontier for me. I think it'd be really… — Lena Dunham Copy Share Image
To me there's no difference between writing YA and adult except that in YA I make the book a little shorter and… — Charles de Lint Copy Share Image
The beauty of Sudhir's protagonists is that they are not shown as black and white. There are various layers to the characters. — Soha Ali Khan Copy Share Image
With the crime novels, its delightful to have protagonists I can revisit in book after book. Its like having a fictitious family. — John Banville Copy Share Image
I had a list of things that science fiction, particularly American science fiction, to me seemed to do with tedious regularity. One… — William Gibson Copy Share Image
The Hulk is the most difficult Marvel property because it's always about balance. Is he a monster? Is he a hero? Are… — Joss Whedon Copy Share Image
'What It Is' was based on this class I've been teaching for 10 years - I wanted to write a book about… — Lynda Barry 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
I have confronted theoretical positions whose protagonists claim that what I take to be historically produced characteristics of what is specifically modern… — Alasdair MacIntyre Copy Share Image
Films with female protagonists don't attract many eyeballs. Most of them are perceived as feminist films. If Bollywood starts giving women major… — Bipasha Basu Copy Share Image
Consider the different narrative styles within the story, and the glee with which the "moralistic narrator" celebrates Aschenbach's fall - maybe, then,… — Philip Kitcher Copy Share Image
My parents are amazing. When I said I wanted to go into film, they didn't understand it, but they were incredibly supportive.… — Gina Prince-Bythewood Copy Share Image
Eva is a story of repetition. It is a story where our protagonist faces the same situation many times over and determinedly… — Hideaki Anno Copy Share Image
If the point of life is the same as the point of a story, the point of life is character transformation. If… — Donald Miller Copy Share Image
Lars is played by Ryan Gosling, the Prince of Tics, whose idea of acting is to wait a few beats before reacting… — Joe Queenan Copy Share Image
There is a social contract in "Fight Club" and in "Choke" where the protagonist has deceived a whole bunch of people. In… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
The Hawk and the Dove is a wonderful idea for a book, wonderfully carried out. Nicholas Thompson has used illuminating new material… — James Fallows Copy Share Image
This bill would renounce the safe, proper, and acceptable role for Government as a referee of disputes between the governed. It would… — Strom Thurmond Copy Share Image
Whether it's Mrs Dalloway's lost love or Thérèse Raquin's burgeoning horror, The Paying Guests reminds us of every great novel we've gasped… — Charlotte Mendelson Copy Share Image
Black music has always known, and not been afraid to acknowledge just how high the stakes of Black thought are. To summarize… — Frank B. Wilderson III Copy Share Image
Once a newspaper touches a story, the facts are lost forever, even to the protagonists. — Norman Mailer Copy Share Image
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