When I first began writing In the Country of Men all I had was the voice of the protagonist. He intrigued me… — Hisham Matar Copy Share Image
I loved films of the '70s with those antihero protagonists who you don't know if you can get behind because their behavior… — Nicholas Jarecki Copy Share Image
Each of my novels features a protagonist undertaking a difficult personal journey. On the way, each of these characters - mostly female… — Juliet Marillier Copy Share Image
Show me a novelist – or, indeed, a reader – who wasn’t a socially awkward, self-conscious adolescent, prone to clumsiness and excessive… — Charlotte Mendelson Copy Share Image
A lot of narrative films leave you no space for anything else but eating popcorn. I want to go in the complete… — Elia Suleiman 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
In male-driven [films], the protagonist is not the person who's necessarily in harms way. There's a sense that they're going to figure… — Todd Haynes Copy Share Image
The protagonist of folktale is always, and intensely, a young person moving through ordeals into adult life. . . . and this… — Jill Paton Walsh Copy Share Image
I never regard my characters, my protagonists, as personifications. It's not that I sit by my desk and I pick up a… — Amos Oz Copy Share Image
The idea in The Man that Would Be King was that the music should recreate all that majestic surrounding and emphasize the… — Maurice Jarre Copy Share Image
Of course I consider myself a Jewish writer - I am one! All of the protagonists in my five books have been… — Lauren Weisberger Copy Share Image
The adolescent protagonist is one of the hallmarks of American literature. — Tayari Jones Copy Share Image
Hwang Jung-eun is one of the brightest stars of the new South Korean generation - she's Han Kang's favourite, and the novel… — Deborah Smith Copy Share Image
Girlchild . . . unfolds a compelling, layered narrative told by a protagonist with a voice so fresh, original, and funny you'll… — Mameve Medwed 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
Though the inspiration for my songs almost always comes from things that are happening around me, I am definitely not always the… — Thalia Zedek 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
Over time, it's occurred to me that my protagonists all originate in some aspect of myself that I find myself questioning or… — Julia Glass 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
Once you have a situation that is fresh, then you sort of believe in it and it becomes normal. So you do… — Paul Schrader 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
There are definitely parts of me in most of the protagonists I write, but I find a bit of distance can be… — John K. Samson Copy Share Image
For the blockbusters, people were always telling me that if you write female protagonists, the boys won't go, so you have to… — Linda Woolverton Copy Share Image
The immersive stories of This Is Paradise are a lithe blend of formal invention and traditional narrative pleasures. As such they reflect… — Peter Ho Davies Copy Share Image
Creativity is basically a feminine process. I'm convinced that we have in our soul, everybody, this masculine side and this feminine side.… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
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