Arcs Quote by Diablo Cody Download Open image “People don't have these tidy little redemption arcs in reality the way they do in movies.” — Diablo Cody ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.4 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare Arcs Littles Movie Movies People Reality Redemption Tidy Way
Redemption is something you have to fight for in a very personal, down-dirty way. Some of our characters lose that, some stray from that,… — Joss Whedon Copy Share Image
I think for some reason we're conditioned in movies that the protagonist must be heroic or redeemable in some way, whereas in theater, that's… — Oscar Isaac Copy Share Image
In the film world, we can all be heroes. In the real world, where heroism can cost you your life or the life of… — John Rhys-Davies Copy Share Image
I think that we are all the heroes of our own story, and I think life comes in all shades of gray. Personally, I… — Matt Ross Copy Share Image
Once you have a situation that is fresh, then you sort of believe in it and it becomes normal. So you do end up… — Paul Schrader Copy Share Image
It's rare that movies can sort of capture the tone of life; movies always feel like they have to be one thing or another. — Jonathan Levine Copy Share Image
Life isn’t like the movies. People don’t change overnight. people don’t go from arrogant and self-righteous to ashamed and remorseful. They don’t suddenly give… — Randa Abdel-Fattah Copy Share Image
This is why people cry at the movies: because everybody’s doomed. No one in a movie can help themselves in any way. Their fate… — John Darnielle Copy Share Image
Making movies has become such a golden ring, and it's all such a big business, that the rewards system has gotten totally out of… — Ben Affleck Copy Share Image
We've all watched hundreds of movies from characters' points of view that are not our own. That's part of the gift movies give us. — Scott Derrickson Copy Share Image
One nice thing about being a woman in Hollywood is that the women tend to be very close-knit. All of us writers and directors… — Diablo Cody Copy Share Image
You know, it shouldn't just be about women as heroic figures overcoming things, it just needs to be about women in general getting the… — Diablo Cody Copy Share Image
It's possible that I've matured as a writer, and I hope I've matured emotionally, but I always find myself revisiting these adolescent scenes. — Diablo Cody Copy Share Image
It's actually much harder to develop a TV show than I had anticipated. — Diablo Cody Copy Share Image
Hollywood is a perpetual summerland, a temperate, godless yaw where the very word 'season' has been co-opted by television executives. There are few harbingers… — Diablo Cody Copy Share Image
I do a nice sloppy first draft like everybody else. And then just work at it and work at it and groom it. I… — Diablo Cody Copy Share Image
But here is the single greatest thing about the 'Vanity Fair' party: There are uniformed In-N-Out Burger employees circulating the room with trays of… — Diablo Cody Copy Share Image
This is for the writers. I want to thank all the writers. I especially want to thank my fellow nominees because I worship you… — Diablo Cody Copy Share Image
I had the experience last year of directing my first feature while I had a 1-year-old son and while I was also pregnant, so… — Diablo Cody Copy Share Image
I absolutely relate to being alone in squalor, trying to come up with something adequate. I relate to that, and I've been known to… — Diablo Cody Copy Share Image
In my opinion, the best thing you can do is find a person who loves you for exactly what you are. Good mood, bad… — Diablo Cody Copy Share Image
It's a challenge to work a character's arc into a format in which you only have a very limited amount of time to grow… — Ginnifer Goodwin Copy Share Image
Through the music I hope to give it an arc that gives it a greater sense of a journey through the set rather than… — Gotye Copy Share Image
Because we grew up surrounded by big dramatic story arcs in books and movies, we think our lives are supposed to be filled with… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
When in doubt, the rule of threes is a rule that plays well with all of storytelling. When describing a thing? No more than… — Chuck Wendig Copy Share Image
Sanchez looked at me and we locked eyes a second too long. There was nothing I could do about it. The signal went out.… — Rick Riordan Copy Share Image
When we are young, we spend much time and pains in filling our note-books with all definitions of Religion, Love, Poetry, Politics, Art, in… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
I suppose that, for me at least, the biggest difference betweenThe Gunslinger Born and the next two story arcs (The Long Road Home and… — Robin Furth Copy Share Image
We've got this arc of instability from North Africa to South Asia, and we have to pay close attention to it. And we have… — Hillary Clinton Copy Share Image
I do not pretend to understand the moral universe; the arc is a long one. . . . But from what I see I… — Theodore Parker Copy Share Image
I think every woman character, every female character, has her own arc. — Katheryn Winnick Copy Share Image
I am committed now to one thing: lyric sequences. I want the intensity of lyric, but the scope and arc of narrative. so, I… — Gregory Orr Copy Share Image
