Quote by Benedetto Marcello

The absence of plot leaves the reader room to think about other things.

— David Shields

People have really long attention spans, and they love complicated plots. TV series are giving the audience what they want.

— Kevin Spacey

If a movie has more characters than an audience can keep track of, the audience will get confused and lose interest in the story.

— Seth Grahame-Smith

Considerations of plot do a great deal of heavy lifting when it comes to long-form narrative - readers will overlook the most ham-fisted prose…

— Lynn Coady

It's a tough job to tell a story when the audience already knows the ending, and the ending is bleak.

— Walter Jon Williams

All we think about is how to keep the audience engaged, and normally we're big on plot because that's the easy way to do…

— Ethan Coen

It's always hard to explain why an audience ultimately responds to a movie.

— Barry Levinson

The audience has to understand that if the film is going to have any meaning for them. If they are going to empathize with…

— Conrad Hall

I think it's a bit like coming to the end of a book. The plot's in its thickest, all the characters are in a…

— Herman Wouk

The thing is, even though you think a lot about your movie, and there's a lot of preparation behind it, the final end result…

— Paolo Sorrentino

You don't always have to have the ending, but you want to have a satisfactory conclusion.

— Barry Levinson

“I mean, mentally you brace yourself for the ending of a novel. As you're reading, you're aware of the fact that there's only a…

— David Lodge