Protagonists Quotes · Page 2

My protagonists, male and female, are me.

— Madeleine L'Engle

“something is what makes protagonists interesting.”

— Nathan Bransford

The great movie can be as free of being a record of the progress of the protagonist as is a dream.

— David Mamet

In the past, I'll admit, I've enjoyed being compared to the protagonists in my screenplays.

— Diablo Cody

I tend to always love material with flawed protagonists and morally ambiguous people.

— Laura Dern

That's what protagonists do. They work hard, they have a conflict, they overcome the obstacles.

— Jon Heder

It is the objective of the protagonist that keeps us in our seats.

— David Mamet

I'd been upstaged, demoted from protagonist in my own drama to comic relief in my parents' tragedy

— Alison Bechdel

Make the audience wonder what's going on by putting them in the same position as the protagonist.

— David Mamet

“the glory of the protagonist is always paid for by a lot of secondary characters”

— Tony Hoagland

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

The protagonists that I've played tend to be people who make trouble. Or even if they don't make it, they certainly disrupt…

— James Spader

In the average European oil painting of the nude the principal protagonist is never painted. He is the spectator in front of…

— John Berger

I learned another thing, which is that just because someone is eating the ashes of your protagonist doesn't mean you stop telling…

— Miriam Toews

Wolf Boy is absolutely beguiling. Evan Kuhlman has boundless empathy for all his characters, and his wonderful protagonist Stephen is, in turn,…

— Valerie Sayers

I absolute adore epic journeys that require a protagonist to fight for every victory in the hopes of finding triumph.

— Megan Chance

In 'Nier Automata', the protagonists are androids, not humans, and that's very common in a Science Fiction story.

— Yoko Taro

The black person is the protagonist in most of my paintings. I realized that I didn't see many paintings with black people…

— Jean-Michel Basquiat

Femininity, yes, effectively there is more in The First Man, not only in terms of women but stylistically, in its elements, the…

— Catherine Camus

A lot of crime fiction writing is also lazy. Personality is supposed to be shown by the protagonists taste in music, or…

— Peter Temple

Your protagonist is your reader’s portal into the story. The more observant he or she can be, the more vivid will be…

— Janet Fitch

A criminal trial is like a Russian novel: it starts with exasperating slowness as the characters are introduced to a jury, then…

— Clifford Irving

Crime is a very hard genre to feminise. If you have a female protagonist she is going to be looking after her…

— Denise Mina

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

The sense of tragedy - according to Aristotle - comes, ironically enough, not from the protagonist's weak points but from his good…

— Haruki Murakami

First person allows deeper insight into the protagonist's character. It allows the reader to identify more fully with the protagonist and to…

— Juliet Marillier

There is a social contract in "Fight Club" and in "Choke" where the protagonist has deceived a whole bunch of people. In…

— Chuck Palahniuk

Eva is a story of repetition. It is a story where our protagonist faces the same situation many times over and determinedly…

— Hideaki Anno

Lars is played by Ryan Gosling, the Prince of Tics, whose idea of acting is to wait a few beats before reacting…

— Joe Queenan

If the point of life is the same as the point of a story, the point of life is character transformation. If…

— Donald Miller

I really loved ["The Love Affairs of Nathaniel P" by Adelle Waldman]. It's having a really hot moment. Unlike many hot books,…

— Lena Dunham

The protagonist of Fourteen Stories, None of Them Are Yours doesn’t make it easy for us, channeling as he does Barry Hannah…

— Jim Shepard

I want my work to become part of our visual history, to enter our collective memory and our collective conscience. I hope…

— James Nachtwey

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

With a horror movie, you're making a metaphor. You're making a personalized nightmare for the protagonist.

— Jordan Peele

My protagonists are my mother's voice and the mind I had when I was thirteen.

— Harold Brodkey

We are the protagonists of our love story, not the spectators.

— Matt Walsh

I'm interested in flawed protagonists. I was raised on them.

— Laura Dern

I always felt a little worm inside me: 'Now you need to write a novel with a woman protagonist.

— Carlos Fuentes

I always think once you have the lead protagonist, you cast around that character.

— Nicolas Winding Refn