About Quote by Dan Gilroy

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…

— Cary Elwes

It's a whole other way of working when you work in films: You know exactly the arc of your character.

— Sissy Spacek

In film, in general, you have just so many cliche themes or stories that are told over and over again.

— Takashi Miike

When you're in sync with the director, on the type of movie you want to make, the arc of the characters, how the characters…

— Dwayne Johnson

“Plot is certainly a part of constructing a story. It’s a factor in outlining. But believe it or not, it’s the least important factor.…

— Libbie Hawker

This is why every actor wants to get a script - they want to see what the arc of the character is.

— Paul Raci

I've never been very interested in literary narrative in movies, it always seems an obligatory trait and the least interesting of all the things…

— Rick Alverson

It doesn't matter how complex your plot or your characters are; you have to be able to express the big idea of a film…

— Gurinder Chadha

I think that too often we, film directors, think that a big epic novel and feature film are the same. It's a lie. A…

— Pirjo Honkasalo

I know from the past, critics often say my films don't have any plot, that kind of thing. I'm used to being told, "Yeah,…

— Jim Jarmusch

Quite often you get a lot of films with lots of story but no characterisation.

— Lynne Ramsay

I always start with characters rather than with a plot, which many critics would say is very obvious from the lack of plot in…

— Jim Jarmusch