The most challenging and exciting aspect is the outline and formation of the plot points. This is the stage where the notion of the story begins to take shape, and I can see glimpses of what is to come.
Tony DiTerlizzi
StoryI CanStageSeeShapePlot
It's an interesting plot device to enter in a third wheel - it always helps raise the stakes for all parties involved. But often, those characters can be one-dimensional.
Michael Trucco
InterestingWheelAlwaysRaisePlot
Normally you read a screenplay - and I read a lot of them - and the characters don't feel like people. They feel like plot devices or cliches or stereotypes.
Joseph Gordon-Levitt
PeopleFeelYouStereotypesPlot
Bohemia isn't somewhere an artist runs to escape society. It's a place where like-minded artists gather to plot the downfall of dogma and ignorance.
Donovan
IgnoranceSocietyArtistPlacePlot
I'm a stickler for structure. So I tend to make sure I'm hitting certain points in the script and that I'm progressing and moving things along. You know, are the characters keeping the plot moving along? And are they true, and do I know their motivations?
Allison Schroeder
MovingYouKnowTrueStructurePlot
I always pity people who have to write my plot synopses.
Peter Carey
PeopleWriteAlwaysPityWhoPlot
In 'Notting Hill,' I was part of a whole plot line over six scenes that was completely taken out. That was rather depressing.
Richard McCabe
HillOverLineOutDepressingPlot
I don't plot my books rigidly, follow a preconceived structure. A novel mustn't be a closed system - it's a quest.
Kurt Vonnegut
FollowStructureSystemQuestPlot
We must clearly see that international hostile forces are intensifying the strategic plot of Westernizing and dividing China, and ideological and cultural fields are the focal areas of their long-term infiltration.
Hu Jintao
SeeClearlyChinaLong-TermPlot
What the devil does the plot signify, except to bring in fine things?
George Villiers
DevilBringThingsFinePlotExcept
It's hard to write a good plot, it's very hard.
David Mamet
GoodWriteHardPlotVery
God, I'd love to do a big commercial movie that made a lot of money and whose plot was interesting too.
Bob Balaban
LoveGodMoneyInterestingBigPlot
Typically, I have a fairly good grip on the plot of a suspense novel before I set about writing it. I must know beforehand how the mystery ultimately will be solved.
Sandra Brown
GoodWritingMysteryKnowWillPlot
When sex is necessary for the plot of a book, or a character development, then I don't shy away from it. Why should I?
Laurell K. Hamilton
CharacterBookSexWhyShyPlot
Movies are all about plot. Theater, even if it's story heavy, it's about ideas.
Harvey Fierstein
IdeasStoryMoviesHeavyEvenPlot
The cliches are that it's the most generic Starsky and Hutch plot you can find.
Ben Stiller
YouFindMostPlotClichesGeneric
I don't read for plot, a story 'about' this or that. There must be some kind of philosophical depth rendered into the language, something happening.
Rachel Kushner
StoryLanguageKindDepthMustPlot
I saw the Kino print of 'The Man From Beyond,' but apparently a superior new print has been produced by Restored Serials. Maybe a few snippets of missing footage will close up some of the plot holes, but I have my doubts.
Kage Baker
ManNewWillBeyondMissingPlot
'The Merchant of Venice' is a straightforward, clear story, while 'The Winter's Tale,' as a general rule, is hard to present because there is so much plot.
Jesse L. Martin
WinterStoryPresentHardRulePlot
'Ocean's Kingdom' is a fairy story with no subtext, no resonance - it's not about anything except its water-logged plot.
Robert Gottlieb
OceanStoryFairyAnythingPlot
My books are primarily plot driven but the best plot in the world is useless if you don't populate them with characters that readers can care about.
Jeffery Deaver
BestWorldCareYouUselessPlot
Plot is to literature what individual holes are to miniature golf.
Stanley Elkin
GolfLiteratureIndividualPlot
My outlines can be 10-20 pages in length and focus primarily on the physical active plot over the emotional plot.
FocusActiveOverEmotionalPlot
The plot of 'Stranger Things' is so simple that even a brief description risks spoiling it.
Michelle Dean
SimpleRisksStrangerThingsPlot
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