Attention Quote by Kevin Spacey

All we think about is how to keep the audience engaged, and normally we're big on plot because that's the easy way to do…

— Ethan Coen

I'm not a huge fan of very plotty shows. I'm much more of a fan of character-driven stories.

— Sam Esmail

What audiences love with series is that they can invest in characters for such a long period of time, and it's the same for…

— Florence Pugh

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

There are only so many plots in the world. It's how they unfold that makes them interesting.

— Lauren Beukes

Characters are story. And any great plot or subplot is driven by the characters' wants and desires.

— Robert Gregory Browne

If you create a good story that has a lot of story value I think audiences like that. It's why they stick with the…

— Robert Rodriguez

There's something in human nature, the trying-to-get-on-with-it quality of people, the struggle to maintain or keep the show going can be exhausting. It just…

— Greg Kinnear

The great thing about series television is that it's very fluid and there are a lot of things that come into play that will…

— Jimmy Smits

You can do a show with lots of storylines. You can cram it with issues. People will keep up.

— Nicholas Hammond

If you trust that the people making the show love the source material and the characters, and it's a different medium and there are…

— Greg Bryk

TV is a big business. In some ways, it's surpassed films, in terms of the way people invest in these shows and invest in…

— Jamie Bell