Character Quote by Jeremy Renner

When Shakespeare begins his exposition thus he generally at first makes people talk about the hero, but keeps the hero himself for some time…

— Andrew Coyle Bradley

All storytelling is kind of that - there's a bit of text that you put pressure on that spits out some desire that a…

— George Saunders

If you don't spend the time you need on developing characters and finding stories, complicated stories, the audience gets tired because they think they're…

— Kathleen Kennedy

Shakespeare is so fundamental to the way we see story. A tremendous amount of narratives come from him - more than many authors are…

— Rebecca Serle

From beginning to end it's about keeping the energy and the intensity of the story and not doing too much and not doing too…

— Deborah Cox

The leading character isn't always the most important or interesting character; when people think that the protagonist is the character portrayed, it's people who…

— Pilou Asbaek

You have to think about storytelling over the long haul: what is going to engage an audience for, potentially, years and how characters can…

— Jeremy Podeswa

When you can have a character that the audience likes from the beginning, but then you put them in a situation where they grow…

— John Lasseter

If you look at the timing of many of the Greek dramas from the theatrical point of view, it's all off, and I think…

— John Eaton

Others are to us like the characters in fiction, eternal and incorrigible; the surprises they give us turn out in the end to have…

— Mary McCarthy

There's something extremely rewarding about following characters that you like and knowing that there's as many hours of viewing as you have the appetite…

— Jamie Bamber

And that's what I really love, is finding a script and fantasizing and going to a different world and kind of portraying a character…

— Alex Pettyfer