I follow filmmakers, and story, and characters that surprise and delight me. — Fred Hechinger Copy Share Image
The number 1 thing that I don't want to see in a story is when characters exist simply to be proven wrong. — Brandon Sanderson Copy Share Image
Fans want to see a story with characters, and they want to see a story. — Martin Freeman Copy Share Image
I love the opportunity to tell the story about the characters through the music. — Alex Kurtzman Copy Share Image
I just write characters, and somehow they happen to be a boy and a girl. When the story is put together, and… — Imtiaz Ali Copy Share Image
As a rule, I don't worry about genre. I just want to tell a good story, with characters that interest me and… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
It's really, always, the story and the characters that come first, and the other things are kind of dealt with in time… — Pete Docter Copy Share Image
I'm understanding theatre a bit more. I've learned that you go over and over stuff. There's a big element of back-story: where… — Goldie Copy Share Image
I try to be true to the characters that I've created and sometimes I disagree with them, but their opinions about the… — Emily Giffin Copy Share Image
Short story characters, mine anyway, are usually driven by impulse, not so much by their histories and the choices that they have… — Charles Baxter Copy Share Image
You set up the story, but the characters start talking, and they go places that you didn't expect. You have to follow. — Zoe Kazan Copy Share Image
For me, a story has to have characters, and my role should be meaningful. At the end of the day, people should… — Nithya Menen Copy Share Image
For me, as I've said many times, the story is not research. The story is how the characters relate with each other… — Uwem Akpan Copy Share Image
Every movie has three things you have to do - you have to have a compelling story that keeps people on the… — John Lasseter Copy Share Image
If I get blocked, it is generally because I don't know enough about some aspect of the story or the characters. The… — Sarah Zettel Copy Share Image
As readers, we want not only a strong story, but also characters we can relate to, characters that feel real. We have… — Carlos Ruiz Zafon Copy Share Image
Its not a story in which the characters grow up, but a story in which they draw on something already inside them,… — Hayao Miyazaki Copy Share Image
“The characters who go to make up my stories and novels are not portraits. Characters I invent along with the story that… — Eudora Welty Copy Share Image
I usually grow sick of my short-story characters and think, 'I never want to see you again.' — Lorrie Moore Copy Share Image
“The following is a true story. However, the characters, locations, situations, and events are entirely fictional.” — Derek Fox Copy Share Image
Part of the beauty of a long-format story is that the characters become as much yours as they are mine, and you… — Joshua Jackson Copy Share Image
We try to find the information, the clues, to unlock the play or the story or our characters, especially when they're based… — Phillipa Soo Copy Share Image
It does not matter to me how many dialogues I have in the film or the screen time. It is all about… — Shweta Tripathi Copy Share Image
That's been my main interest for the last 15 years, is to really make sure the story and the characters take precedence… — Daniel Clowes Copy Share Image
