Famous Quotes & Sayings

Shane Carruth

My favorite films are the ones that I walk away from and I know I saw a story. I saw the core part of the plot. But if I ever take another look at it then I can see that there was some more stuff going on in there that I didn't realize.

Michael Ondaatje

I tend not to know what the plot is or the story is or even the theme. Those things come later, for me.

Alice McDermott

I don't want to write about violence, and I don't want to hang a plot on a murder. I think it's cheap.

Jack Canfield

I consider myself to be an inverse paranoid. I always operate as if everything is part of a universal plot to enhance my well-being.

They were intercepted before the plot could reach fruition.

Heidi Julavits

I don't usually read my reviews. I've noticed older reviewers are much more bothered by the plot complications. Younger reviews don't seem to be bothered by the complications at all.

Nicole Kidman

LIfe has got all those twists and turns. You've got to hold on tight and off you go.

Liam Neeson

I get fed up with plots that are driven by someone constantly getting information on a computer.

Len Wiseman

I would love to travel to the future to plot out some things so there's no more guess work.

Peter Tork

The Monkees was a straight sitcom, we used the same plots that were on the other situation comedies at the time. So the music wasn't threatening, we weren't threatening.

Buster Keaton

You could write the whole plot on a postcard. We do the rest.

John Selden

Fine wits destroy themselves with their own plots, in meddling with great affairs of state.

James Joyce

One great part of every human existence is passed in a state which cannot be rendered sensible by the use of wideawake language, cutanddry grammar and goahead plot.

Eleanor Catton

The challenge that I set for myself was to see whether or not plot and structure could coexist, and why it was that we had to always privilege one above the other.

Mike Figgis

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.

Paolo Bacigalupi

I like fast plots with things that explode.

Terence McKenna

Culture is a plot against the expansion of consciousness.

Whitney M. Young

You can holler, protest, march, picket and demonstrate, but somebody must be able to sit in on the strategy conferences and plot a course. There must be strategies, the researchers, the professionals to carry out the program. That's our role.

Roger Ebert

One difference between film noir and more straightforward crime pictures is that noir is more open to human flaws and likes to embed them in twisty plot lines.

W. Somerset Maugham

The author always loads his dice, but he must never let the reader see that he has done so, and by the manipulation of his plot, he can engage the reader's attention so that he does not perceive the violence that has been done to him.