Patrick Rothfuss Quotes

It doesn't work if the bad guys kill his mother's uncle's friend's neighbor's pet dog. You've got to make the stakes high.

If I ever wrote a script myself, it would be strongly emotional material.

Theatre should be a taxing experience: the greatest achievement of a writer is to produce a character who creates anxiety.

Any show I'm working on, I want the stories to always be about something, and to have the potential to be emotional. That's the kind of story that I like.

Drama is drama, and it's really... if it's something small, you put a magnifying glass up to it; if it's something big, you use a wide lens.

Big stories need human stakes.

What can I say: I'm a writer - I enjoy forcing pain and suffering on my characters!

To experience the unique sense of elation that you have when your child is sleeping on your chest in an incomparable emotion.

So I decided to move that scene in the doctor's office to two-thirds into the movie, after the viewers had come to know Ryan and Ali and share in their happiness.

I felt there was a lot of love in my house. And my mom was, you know, the basis of all that.

My mother used to sit at the foot of my bed, and she would share her dreams with me.

My mother protected me from the world and my father threatened me with it.

I remember watching 'A Streetcar Named Desire' when I was quite young, I was about 12, or 13, and I watched it, thinking, 'Wow. That is pretty cool. I'd like to do something like that.'

There is always drama and there will always be drama, but its the way its presented in my head that makes it so interesting. Everyone gets their time in the middle of the drama.

All good, clean stories are melodrama; it's just the set of devices that determines how you show or hide it.

I prefer drama; I think character-driven drama is my favorite kind of stuff to go watch, and I like being challenged by that kind of stuff in that way.

One of the challenges is creating characters. I am trying to compose my sentences to express epic events happening to ordinary people.

I find the constraints of drama actually freeing: It brings everything down to character and action.

I have very vivid memories of my mother reading to us as kids.

I think that I am interested in the resonance between character drama and high stakes, either situational or political or social or other kind of elevated drama, and I tend to find that those things combust.

I think plot is very overrated. Plot is obviously necessary, but what I really care about is emotionally affecting the audience. Having a thought myself and then an emotional experience myself, somehow transferring that to the audience.

We figured the audience would want good stories, great art, wonderful characters, people you could fall in love with that we would immediately put through hell.

The way that I work as an actress, I always prefer to read the whole story and tell the whole story and feel what the whole story's going to be, the journey for the audience and how it ebbs and flows, the highs and the lows.

I regard the 'Descendants' as a melodrama, and all scenes have been the trappings to increase the element of romance, I thought. In that sense, I am very satisfied and have great respect for the decisions of the writers.

Dialogues and emotion based movies don't always work.