Plot-Driven Quotes

Badlapur' is a drama, a character-driven story. It is not so much about plot.

I want the look of a movie to be secondary. I really want people to be engaged in the story and the characters and not think about a style or think about me or think about the director of photography and what a great job he's doing. I never feel like that should be there.

I think the great thing about the Jack Ryan films is that the plot and the story always take center stage. If you've done your job as the actor portraying Jack Ryan, you are present enough to make an impact, but you let the story shine.

I'm certainly a plot and character man. Themes, structure, style - they're valid components of a novel and you can't complete the book without them. But I think what propels me as a reader is plot and character.

Action fiction is driven more by what than by who. Put that ticking nuclear suitcase under Manhattan, and it's relatively easy to create suspense. Literary fiction is driven more by who than by what.

I don't start with the characters. I start with the series of events that will provide the conflict and how it can be resolved. Characters are incidental.

...book-buyers aren't attracted, by and large, by the literary merits of a novel: book-buyers want a good story...something that will first fascinate them, then pull them in and keep them turning the pages.

I write largely plot-driven stories.

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

I'm not a huge fan of very plotty shows. I'm much more of a fan of character-driven stories.

I never, ever drink while writing. Never have from the start, and I'm happy that I never have to. A lot of my stuff is plot-driven and mathematical, and I think you need a clean and sober mind to pin down the logistics of that.

Crime fiction makes money. It may be harder for writers to get published, but crime is doing better than most of what we like to call CanLit. It's elementary, plot-driven, character-rich story-telling at its best.

Other genres are plot-driven, but the entire focus of a romance novel is on the characters and their arcs.

It was always about the story rather than the character.

To me, action has to come from the plot.

I love 'Curb Your Enthusiasm' and 'Extras' and also 'The Trip.' That had all the nuances of friendship and finding things out about their lives without it being too much plot-driven.

I think I can speak with a degree of authority... today, the biggest driving force of movies is pace; God help you if you try to put in a scene that is about character and not plot.

My story reflexes come less from fantasy or horror than from the darker sort of psychological thriller - not as plot-driven as most, rather more mood-driven. My interest in the supernatural is a complication - though I am less interested in ghosts than in people who see ghosts.

I want to play real characters rather than young leads in very plotty things. I want variety.

Bond doesn't have an inner life. There would be moments when I'd think, 'We need to gather our thoughts here and have a breather,' where in another novel you'd slow the pace, have some description and see what Bond feels about this. But Bond doesn't reflect. All you can do is move on to the next bomb or shark or car.

I do read P.D. James because she pays much more attention to character, to a particular atmosphere or setting. But most mystery writers, I think, are controlled by the plot.

In drama, the characters should determine the story. In melodrama, the story determines the characters.

I'm probably more character-driven than plot-driven. It's rare for me to attach myself to an idea for a story.

My novels are high concept. I guess big ideas interest me more than, say, the minutiae of domestic life.

The thing that I love is human behavior - why people do what they do, who they are, and the choices that they make - and that has to always be plot driven.