Simple Plot Quotes

Look at Austen. In her novels, you get a dance, followed by an encounter, followed by a letter, then a period of solitude. No flashbacks and no backstory. Let's have no more back story!

It goes all the way back to 'Psycho.' Movies with twists like that are memorable because they're so simple.

The first time I re-discovered the joy of watching an action movie was when I saw 'Die Hard.' It was a completely simple plot - a guy goes to meet his wife, and the building gets taken over by terrorists - but I was completely blown away. Great characters, and it moved along really fast.

I like the slow Scandinavian pace. I don't need cliffhangers in every chapter because I don't want to make a Hollywood movie out of it.

Sometimes ... the short short appears to rest on nothing more than a fragile anecdote which the writer has managed to drape with a quantity of suggestion. A single incident, a mere anecdote - these form the spine of the short short.

Pfft, who wants to make a movie about a guy in a house?

There are only two people in 'Eat' - myself and my favorite cat, Pachiki - and for 40 minutes, I eat one mushroom.

The plot of 'Stranger Things' is so simple that even a brief description risks spoiling it.

Rather than making that a good project, I like to make the kinds of films that children can understand in five minutes what the film is about.

I have a plot, but not much happens.

I took the original stuff that I read as standalone [in The Flash]. I didn't have anything to refer to, so to me it was all new. It's delightfully simple, the show, but it has many moving parts. It certainly makes you pay attention.

Plot is just a fancy way of saying 'and then.

Plot is just not my gift. I'm fascinated with complex characters, and that doesn't mix well with complex plots. And by the way, when the plot is simple, you can move one piece around and make it feel fresh. Hell or High Water's a good example: I don't tell you why the brothers are robbing the bank.

With 'All Is Song,' I tried to construct a very traditional narrative that pulls no tricks.

The films that I love are very straightforward stories, like really old-fashioned stuff.

The thing is about 'Vida,' we're telling a very simple family narrative. There's nothing fancy about it.

I like to start with the first chapter, end with chapter 40. No flashbacks, nothing fancy, just a direct storytelling.