I think in any movie really the two most interesting parts are the protagonist and the antagonist. — Cung Le Copy Share Image
I'm drawn to characters who bear similarities to the protagonists in myths and legends. (...) — Alan Lee Copy Share Image
The adolescent protagonist is one of the hallmarks of American literature. — Tayari Jones Copy Share Image
Nobody is ever just a straight up protagonist or antagonist - everybody's morally ambiguous. — Cheyenne Jackson Copy Share Image
Identify the moral dilemma driving the novel. the successful novel will haunt a reader because it deals with some ethical or moral… — Rick Riordan Copy Share Image
Treefingers is important, it's the point in which our protagonist crosses the icy tundra that is how to disappear completely to reach… — Thom Yorke Copy Share Image
'Argo,' 'Lincoln,' and 'Zero Dark Thirty,' three films honored with Best Picture Oscar nominations, lionize their Washington-anchored protagonists as crafty, competent, and… — Ron Fournier Copy Share Image
The goals of literature are multifold, but creating nice, positive protagonists that you'd want to grab drinks with or invite home to… — Maria Konnikova Copy Share Image
I feel like I have had to catch up to the art I've made, and learn from the protagonists I have written,… — Vivek Shraya Copy Share Image
We "chicks" have munched our popcorn while romantic comedies became just comedies, and then each female protagonist got recast for Mathew McConaughey… — Emma McLaughlin Copy Share Image
You have to go out of your way as a suspense novelist to find situations where the protagonists are somewhat helpless and… — Nelson DeMille Copy Share Image
The Greeks were the first intellectualists. In a world where the irrational had played the chief role, they came forward as the… — Edith Hamilton Copy Share Image
In the history of enterprise, most of the protagonists of major new products and companies began their education - not in the… — George Gilder 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
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
It can stand in the way of narration in cases where we want the protagonist to actually go through some kind of… — Sasa Stanisic 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
The only thing that makes me put down a book is if the characters are boring, or the situations aren't fraught with… — Michael Boatman Copy Share Image
Dreams have consequences. There is no turning back. A revolution is not a painless march to the gates of freedom and justice.… — Hisham Matar Copy Share Image
Just as women supplement men in private life, so they will supplement men in public life by concentrating their organized efforts on… — Edward Bernays Copy Share Image
This act of empathy, that women go through from the time we're little girls - we read all of literature, all of… — Meryl Streep Copy Share Image
When does a session of The Theatre of the Oppressed end? Never – since the objective is not to close a cycle,… — Augusto Boal 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
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 Copy Share Image
I'm very objective about what I want to have happen to my protagonists and where that has to come from. On one… — Rita Williams-Garcia Copy Share Image
Most literary critics agree that fiction cannot be reduced to mere falsehood. Well-crafted protagonists come to life, pornography causes orgasms, and the… — William T. Vollmann Copy Share Image
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
The more complex and overwhelming the threat to a protagonist, the better the opportunity for the author to create a compelling conflict… — Terry Brooks Copy Share Image
Perfect heroines, like perfect heroes, aren't relatable, and if you can't put yourself in the protagonist's shoes, not only will they not… — Cassandra Clare 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
A biography is never a biography of one person, of course, but the individual life of your protagonist will never conform. It… — Rachel Holmes 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
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
I think boys don't always like to read books with female protagonist - I don't even know what to say about this. — Jacqueline Woodson 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
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
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