Arcs Quotes

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For me, one thing I love is having an arc for a character. — Mae Whitman
Joan of Arc should be played as a "pain in the ass" and how do I know she was a "pain in the ass"? ...… — Harold Clurman
A lot of the television industry is so cookie-cutter. In general, there are so many shows that are easy and bland to watch. You can… — Adam Baldwin
I wanted to create a heroine that was flawed. I wanted her to be a real person. She's selfish, she's childish, she's immature and because… — Amber Benson
I always wanted to play Joan of Arc. I've always wanted to do that. Now I'm thinking, 'Maybe there's a story in Joan of Arc's… — Ellen Burstyn
I feel like if a film is well-written, then the character's arc is complete. There really is very little room to expand on that afterwards. — Cary Elwes
Noah took much ridicule building his great arc, but after 40 days and 40 nights he was looking pretty smart. — Garth Brooks
What's great in theater is that you can sustain the arc of a character for a full three hours, whereas in film or TV, you… — Daniel Dae Kim
To me it seems that too many young women of this time share the same creed. 'Live, laugh, love, be nothing but happy, experience everything,… — Criss Jami
I don't particularly like the idea that there's an arc to the story and that therefore in this scene you have to convey this bit… — Michael Winterbottom
The more closely [the German army] converged on [Stalingrad], the narrower became their scope for tactical manoeuvre as a lever in loosening resistance. By contrast,… — B. H. Liddell Hart
No picture of life can have any veracity that does not admit the odious facts. A man's power is hooped in by a necessity, which,… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
One survey found that ten percent of Americans thought Joan of Arc was Noah's wife. — Rita Mae Brown
Change isn't optional, and creation isn't something that happened a long time ago and then ended. It's ongoing, and we are invited to be a… — David LaMotte
Final Execution is Wolverine's spotlight arc. He goes through a crazy thing here. I think the fear with him is that he's in so many… — Rick Remender
No one can stop a home run. No one can understand what it really is, unless you have felt it in your own hands and… — Sadaharu Oh
I miss theater. I miss living the arc of the character, from curtain to curtain, and I miss the immediate audience response. — David Anders
If you watch the arcs of so many comedians, at some point, they just become themselves. — Judd Apatow
Writers know - especially new writers - [that] a lot of it [creative process] is the prewriting stage, the talking, brainstorming, the narrative arc and… — Jenna Bush
Filmmaking is always sort of building a mosaic of this arc of what the character is going through. — Matthew Fox

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