Character Quote by Ti West

With my horror movies or with this movie [Valley of Violence], same thing. The subtext of this movie is what to take away from…

— Ti West

The first half [of Valley of Violence] was to endear you to all these people and give you all these archetypes that you're familiar…

— Ti West

The second half [of Valley of Violence], you're with the guys that you should hate, but when you start seeing what their real lives…

— Ti West

The characters are the plot. What they do and say and the things that happen to them are, in a sense, what the plot…

— Terry Pratchett

Plot is people. Human emotions and desires founded on the realities of life, working at cross purposes, getting hotter and fiercer as they strike…

— Leigh Brackett

I think the violence in 'The Hills Have Eyes' and 'High Tension' is much more traumatic than 'Piranha.'

— Alexandre Aja

There's almost always a point in a book where something happens that triggers the rest of the plot.

— Jonathan Carroll

The violence for me is never meant to be entertaining. It's meant to hurt the characters and I'm trying to show the impact it…

— Charlie Huston

I've never really been a fan of violence. I'm more into the characters and their journey and those kinds of movies don't really allow…

— Toni Collette

As writers and readers, we're drawn to conflict. It's that ancient theory of plot that's written on the whiteboard during every fiction workshop, characters…

— Leslie Pietrzyk

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

— Jim Thompson

All good plots come from well-orchestrated characters pitted against one another in a conflict of wills.

— James N. Frey