Protagonists Quotes · Page 2

I do my job. The protagonists are the players.

— Javi Gracia

Protagonists traditionally are active characters.

— Lulu Wang

I'm drawn to characters who bear similarities to the protagonists in myths and legends. (...)

— Alan Lee

People always want to identify a writer with their protagonist.

— Monica Ali

We can't help identifying with the protagonist. It's coded in our movie-going DNA.

— Roger Ebert

Most traditional ghost stories feature rather hapless protagonists, who have nasty things happen to them.

— Jonathan Stroud

Once a newspaper touches a story, the facts are lost forever, even to the protagonists.

— Norman Mailer

But protagonists are protagonists and heroes are heroes.

— David Baldacci

There has to be a protagonist who has to overcome challenges, and there will be a race to finish.

— Ashwin Sanghi

As long as the protagonist wants something, the audience will want something.

— David Mamet

I've always read broadly: literary fiction, sci-fi, fantasy, chick lit, historical, dystopian, nonfiction, memoir. I've even read Westerns. I prefer female protagonists.

— Sandra Cisneros

I don't judge in my books. I don't have to have the antagonist get shot or the protagonist win. It's just how…

— Elmore Leonard

This dazzling, unput-downable debut novel proves beyond a doubt that Dan Wells has the gift. His teenage protagonist is as chilling as…

— F. Paul Wilson

Open Secret boasts a nifty plot and, in Coroner Fortin, a fascinating protagonist who will likely be around for a long time.…

— Giles Blunt

I believe young children in particular enjoy witnessing the survival of youthful protagonists against terrible odds. I think it's gratifying to the…

— Robert Paul Weston

Though the inspiration for my songs almost always comes from things that are happening around me, I am definitely not always the…

— Thalia Zedek

A lot of narrative films leave you no space for anything else but eating popcorn. I want to go in the complete…

— Elia Suleiman

I really get fired up with female protagonists. I can really feel the difference in myself when I am writing a script…

— Linda Woolverton

If there's a character type I despise, it's the all-capable, all-knowing, physically perfect protagonist. My idea of hell would be to be…

— Craig Johnson

In fact, Guerra based his story on the diaries of two explorers, German Theodor Koch-Grunberg and American Richard Evans Schultes. There work…

— Tom Cole

The violence for me is never meant to be entertaining. It's meant to hurt the characters and I'm trying to show the…

— Charlie Huston

A conventional ‘success’ story is one where, with each next, the protagonist has more money, more respect, and more possessions. I’d like…

— Po Bronson

What helped me a lot was that I chose an American lead protagonist, because that liberated a lot from my own knowledge.…

— Karan Bajaj

I hate the whole übermensch, superman temptation that pervades science fiction. I believe no protagonist should be so competent, so awe-inspiring, that…

— David Brin

Look at the Coen brothers. All their minor characters are as interesting as their protagonists. If the smaller characters are well-written, the…

— Brendan Gleeson

The Internet is the hope of an integrated world without frontiers, a common world without controlling owners, a world of opportunities and…

— Laura Chinchilla

John Steinbeck's 'The Grapes of Wrath' also speaks urgently to today's concerns: the cratered trail of dreams for Mexican immigrants seeking a…

— Richard Corliss

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

When does a session of The Theatre of the Oppressed end? Never – since the objective is not to close a cycle,…

— Augusto Boal

This act of empathy, that women go through from the time we're little girls - we read all of literature, all of…

— Meryl Streep

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

Storytelling is an act of cruelty. We are cruel to our characters because to be kind is to invite boredom, and boredom…

— Chuck Wendig

This bill would renounce the safe, proper, and acceptable role for Government as a referee of disputes between the governed. It would…

— Strom Thurmond

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

I try to have something in common with my protagonists, especially when I'm writing in the first person.

— Emily Giffin

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

— Jordan Peele

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

— Tony Hoagland

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

— David Mamet

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

— David Mamet

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

— Alison Bechdel