Cinema Quote by 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

There are a million logical reasons to not make a film, and I think if you get focused on all the critics or money…

— Brad Bird

Plots are artificial. Does your life have a plot? It has characters. There is a narrative. There's a lot of story, a lot of…

— Richard Linklater

There's a great deal of mystery in film editing, and that's because you're not supposed to see a lot of it. You're supposed to…

— Thelma Schoonmaker

Real life seems to have no plots.

— Ivy Compton-Burnett

There is only one plot-things are not what they seem.

— Jim Thompson

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

Life's generally artless ... but it does get these occasional hard-ons for plot. It connects things, nefariously, behind your back, and before you know…

— Glen Duncan

Sometimes, people don't make the kind of films you want to do.

— Saqib Saleem

If you create a movie that is only character driven, with a weak plot, then you - as a director, you have to make…

— Daniel Espinosa

Movies are all about plot. Theater, even if it's story heavy, it's about ideas.

— Harvey Fierstein