Cognitive Quote by Steven Johnson

The violence at the end is about personal torture.

— Shane Meadows

I certainly do not adore the writer's discipline. I have lost lovers, endangered friendships, and blundered into eccentricity, impelled by a concentration which usually…

— Maya Angelou

I think that fiction is an excellent place for us to struggle with questions of good and evil, and humanity and inhumanity.

— Brent Weeks

After 30 years in the theater, I'm used to having a great amount of control over what I do. But with '24', you place…

— Cherry Jones

My sister-in-law believes that few narratives are so tightly constructed that you can't skip boring bits and still keep abreast of what's going on.

— Arthur Smith

“Might it also be that creating narratives around murder allows a measure of comfort? Murder in the abstract is terrifying; in the details, you…

— Emily Maguire

I personally have more faith than the average writer in people's willingness to be complicated, and so I'm thrilled by what's happened. I'm elated…

— Michael Loceff

There is a comfort zone of knowing where things are going and having characters in place, but the action gets more and more dramatic…

— Jerry B. Jenkins

For me, my storyline [in Big Little Lies] is very complicated and nuanced. [The script] was so beautifully written. It was very, very easy…

— Nicole Kidman

A little bit of gratuitous violence in a well-thought-out story is fine.

— Ray Wise

It is just possible that the tensions in a novel of murder are the simplest and yet most complete pattern of the tensions on…

— Raymond Chandler

No matter how bad you make the torture scenes, the reality was much worse. Because you cannot put on screen 70 days and nights…

— Mohamedou Ould Slahi