Julie Plec Quotes

My feeling has always been if you entertain people, they give you permission to do more on a thematic or character level.

You don't make movies about "men" and "women." You make movies about this guy and this woman and if you get them right, you'll automatically connect with a lot of people.

People love stories and the more you can give information and knowledge and even wisdom through a story, the more likely you are to be heard.

People make events into stories. Stories give events meaning.

You can give the greatest performance possible, but if you don't have a director who's pointing the camera in the right direction and an editor who's editing it properly, it doesn't matter what you do. The director and the editor are the most important people. Not the actors. Sometimes the writer is important. But if you don't have a good director, you can't have a good production.

It's extremely important for women to be writing their own stories and giving them to people to really be emotionally impacted by

I'm just always making things that are personal but hopefully also inspiring, and share not just my story, but other people's stories.

The most important thing in a piece of music is to seduce people to the point where they start searching.

Television series always have a lot of characters because you want people to identify with someone on the show, who will be your eyes.

To hold the reader's attention, you have to bring the person who's reading the book inside the experience of the time: What was it like to have been alive then? What were these people like as human beings?

People don't care how you feel. You need to paint pictures, you need to tell stories. That's what people want. They want to be entertained. Then all of the other stuff kind of filters across as part of the whole thing.

By making the place and the people and the feelings real, by the time someone closes the cover of one of my books, they have, hopefully, felt all of the emotions of life.

The function of the artist is to make people like life better than they have before.

Like most writers, I sit in a room and scribble a story and you don't have a connection with the people who take your story, whether it be to the stage or to the screen.

Audiences are harder to please if you're just giving them effects, but they're easy to please if it's a good story.

For me, a story's a story if people want to hear it; it's very much based on oral storytelling. And for me, a story is a story when people give me the privilege of listening when I'm speaking it out loud.

Other people's stories may become part of your own, the foundation of it, the ground it goes on.

I think the most important thing really was that you could take very personal ideas and present them to an audience in entertaining ways.

What drives me is what I'm putting out into the world, and I like to make films that people can connect to, or they can escape in.

Film is such a powerful medium. It can really affect change; you can affect so many different people in different ways.

As a director, you try to do things that are going to touch the human experience somehow, and emotions that mean something to people. You search for those projects and you hope to realize the potential in a project.

My story is important not because it is mine, God knows, but because if I tell it anything like right, the chances are you will recognize that in many ways it is also yours.

The story is the only thing that's important. Everything else will take care of itself. It's like what bowlers say. You hear writers talk about character or theme or mood or mode or tense or person. But bowlers say, if you make the spares, the strikes will take care of themselves. If you can tell a story, everything else becomes possible. But without story, nothing is possible, because nobody wants to hear about your sensitive characters if there's nothing happening in the story. And the same is true with mood. Story is the only thing that's important.

On a superhero show, you have to have people who are really human and who have the experience the audience is having.

An artist is an entertainer, number one - a storyteller who takes people someplace, who gives them what they didn't know they wanted.