Fede Alvarez Quotes

I like watching films that have very impelling content, great persuasive language.

Anything with a good story and characters I think would be great.

The goal, first and foremost, is to tell a satisfying - entertaining - story.

You cannot base a whole movie on just the imagery alone. It has to be the story and the characters.

Most movies, once the action starts there's no more characters. You say a couple of dumb lines and then there's just explosions until the end.

Really I'm a fan of any movie, whether it's suspense, action, or comedy - anything that has a good story.

I love a really good storyline.

To be completely honest, I just like whatever tells a good story. Put me in whatever setting, scenario, genre. If you're telling a good story, it's great and it's fun to get caught up in.

For me, the first thing is to tell a good story.

People aren't coming to me looking for political essays or polemic - they're looking for a rattling good story.

Audiences are always open to an interesting story.

I'm a total slave to a good story.

I love a big, character-rich story with a dark heart, with a compelling mystery or some kind of ticking clock at its center. I want to be lured in by prose, captured by character, and bound by stellar plotting to keep turning the pages.

Of course, I'm not allowed to talk about the script, but I can say it is a really good story.

I always think plot is what you fall back on if you can't write, to keep things going.

Films don't always tell a story; some films can achieve effect just by being razzle-dazzle or rock n' roll. That's part of the fare that's out there. And that's okay. For me, I place more value on a story.

I believe that the writer should tell a story. I believe in plot. I believe in creating characters and suspense.

Is this film more interesting than a documentary of the same actors having lunch?

Comedy, drama, Westerns, sci-fi... it's all fine if the story's compelling and the character is interesting to me. I do like action a lot.

Fiction is life with the dull bits left out.

I'd like to be in anything that tells a good story and has an interesting character.

Listen to great storytellers; slowly, you will learn about voice, timing, tension, structure, climax - all the things you need to tell stories that will capture the imagination of your audience.

A lot of times with novels, you can get a really deep, engaging story, but there's not a lot happening, frankly. Those books tend to be super-literary and dense, and they require a lot of commitment, and that's not necessarily a bad thing, but if you want fast-moving action and gore and plot and excitement, you can get shorted on that.

I'm a fan of great storytelling.

I'm just an entertainer. In a way crime stories are boring. A crime's been committed and at the end you know it will be solved. So you've got to make the story interesting besides it just being a plot. And that's why character matters, why you've got to make the characters interesting.