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For me, plot always comes out of character, so I had to be sure of my characters.

Character Me Always Out Sure Plot

In 2013, when it turned out that the plot of LaBeouf's short film 'HowardCantour.com' (2012) had been purloined from graphic novelist Daniel Clowes's 2007 comic 'Justin M. Damiano', the actor-director responded with a series of tweet apologies that also appeared to be shoplifted.

Short Out Film Been Plot Comic

When you get to set, you don't try to play the plot; you just play the character.

Character You Play Try Get Plot

You can't remember the plot of the Dr Who movie because it didn't have one, just a lot of plot holes strung together. It did have a lot of flashing lights, though.

Terry Pratchett

Together Remember You Lights Plot

Younger people have greatest fears. Why is that? Because they don't know the plot. They don't know their own individual plot... they don't know what's going to happen to them.

Margaret Atwood

People Know Why Individual Own Plot

I was not the young heroic model for 'Hamlet.' I tended to play those characters that orbited around them: the rogues and the rat bags and the idiots and the fools and the clowns that sway the plot somehow from a tangent.

Fools Play Young Rat Idiots Plot

The way I express ideas is through the plot, Suspense is an important part of expressing an idea.

Ideas Important Way Suspense Plot

Opponents of civil liberties contend the NSA data collection has made our country more safe, but even the most vocal defenders of the program have failed to identify a single thwarted plot.

Data Country More Single Safe Plot

My key interest in choosing scripts is character-driven stories, because there are so many stories that sacrifice character for plot.

Lasse Hallstrom

Character Sacrifice Key Because Plot

I consider plot a necessary intrusion on what I really want to do, which is write snappy dialogue.

Want Write Dialogue Necessary Plot

I don't plot, and I don't plan. I like to be surprised like the reader.

Joe R. Lansdale

Plan Like Surprised Plot Reader

The conventional Aristotelian plot proceeds by means of a protagonist, an antagonist, and a series of events comprising a rising action, climax and denouement.

Action Events Rising Plot Means

Grief doesn't have a plot. It isn't smooth. There is no beginning and middle and end.

Grief Beginning End Middle Plot

The writer must face the fact that ordinary lives are what most people live most of the time, and that the novel as a narration of the fantastic and the adventurous is really an escapist plot; that aesthetically, the ordinary, the banal, is what you must deal with.

Live Time People Face You Plot

I've learned that in the theater the story is everything. Every lyric, every line and every musical gesture has to propel the journey of a given character or the overall plot.

Character Journey Story Line Plot

In discussing the process with the actors, I made it clear to them that they could improvise but that the sum total of their improvisation needed to impart certain plot points, and schematic material.

Process Improvisation Clear Plot Sum

I'm really quite bad at coming up with plot ideas. I like to create characters and just see what will happen to them when I let them loose!

Ideas Bad Create Will See Plot

I admire Dickens beyond words. He is one of the greatest plotters of all times. Didn't have a clue about women, but he sure could plot.

Women Words Admire Beyond Sure Plot

Biographies are, in their nature, far more difficult to make into films than novels, because novels come with plots constructed and dialogue written, whereas I don't invent dialogue for my subjects or plot their lives for them.

Nature More Difficult Dialogue Plot

Those who plot the destruction of others often perish in the attempt.

Others Destruction Who Plot Attempt

DePaul's plot to deny me tenure had nothing to do with my faults. In fact, and ironically, it viciously attacked me and destroyed my career because of my virtues. Which, although few in number, they still found threatening.

Norman Finkelstein

Me Career Nothing Destroyed Plot

I read a lot of literary theory when I was in graduate school, especially about novels, and the best book I ever read about endings was Peter Brooks' 'Reading for the Plot. '

Best School Book Reading Read Plot

I love good stories; you have to have a good plot - characters which intertwine with a good plot.

Love Good You Stories Plot Which

The time has mainly gone on getting Inform into a decent shape for public use. I suppose the plot of 'Curses' makes a sequel conceivable when compared with, say, the plot of 'Hamlet' but none is planned.

Time Say Shape Planned Gone Plot

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