Jane Campion Quotes

I love telling stories. I love the intimacy between the writer and reader. When you write sketches it's over in two minutes. When you write a book the characters have to have a bit of emotional depth.

In the 'Buffy' room, it was never about a plot twist, ever. It was always about, 'Tell the story, tell the characters, complicate their lives, make things get worse,' but we never worked backwards from the plot, and it was always a great lesson.

I like movies about people and movies with characters; that's what I'm drawn to as a person who likes to create these characters within the story, but I like it all, really.

Both 'Where'd You Go, Bernadette' and my first novel, 'This One is Mine,' are pretty complex on a story level, and fun reads as a result.

My books are primarily plot driven but the best plot in the world is useless if you don't populate them with characters that readers can care about.

I think that novels are tools of thought. They are moral philosophy with the theory left out, with just the examples of the moral situations left standing.

I believe in plot, in development of character, in the effect of the passage of time, in a good story - better than something you might find in the newspaper. And I believe a novel should be as complicated and involved as you're capable of making it.

I'd love to see more novels and short stories where the characters have their own folklore that isn't the Plot-Bearing Prophecy of Doom.

The cool thing about Kyle Killen, he writes really defined characters. I was a big fan of 'Awake' and also 'Lone Star.' I just think that he's a really, really special writer, and complex and deep, and a really smart dude.

Besides the mistakes that are pointed out, I love the way readers become involved with the characters. When readers start asking about character motivations instead of concentrating on the special effects, it means you're connecting with them on a personal level.

You can be interested in a Jane Smiley novel whether or not anyone says a word. She enters into her characters' thoughts with great understanding and depth.

I love to evoke the bones and meat and thoughts of characters.

I actually enjoy writing longer books because you have even more to get your storytelling teeth into.

I am a newspaper columnist and a professional screenwriter, but my real love is the novel for all the room it has for characters to come alive and breathe and face their challenges.

People are falling in love with characters now, and that is why writers are creating such stories. I am really happy that such stories are getting prominence.

I'm always excited about stories that allow me to explore a character and create interesting stories and worlds that we haven't seen before.

I always look for characters that will hopefully develop into a more powerful symbol.

The liveliest effusions of wit and humour are simply what the reader of a novel has a right to expect.

I like it when somebody tells me a story, and I actually really feel that that's becoming like a lost art in American cinema.

In any genre you're working in, you can always find a way to tell a particular kind of story. I love fantasy; I love science fiction. I love all kinds of fiction, in fact.

I like doing character movies. I like doing movies about personal situations; that's what I love about dealing with things.

That was all Rose, and Rose knew what she was doing. Her main thing was story.

I don't think people are ever going to a place where they're like, 'I'm over stories about character and love.'

As a novelist, I tend to know significantly more about my characters than I do about my friends.

The important thing is the storytelling and having a script that makes you feel you're living and breathing through the characters.