Rob Manuel Quotes

Fans want to see a story with characters, and they want to see a story.

I like having a plot; I like characters with a reason to get up in the morning.

I'm all about the story. If I like the character and I think the story's entertaining, I'll do it.

In a film you only get two hours to do this big arc and so you have to pick and choose your moments carefully, but with television you get to take your time and just take it episode by episode and discover new things.

The place I begin is with story. If the audience doesn't care about that, then it doesn't matter how amazing the spectacle is. My central philosophy is that people go to the movies to be told a story, not to see stuff blow up.

If you're sitting in your minivan, playing your computer animated films for your children in the back seat, is it the animation that's entertaining you as you drive and listen? No, it's the storytelling. That's why we put so much importance on story. No amount of great animation will save a bad story.

I try mainly to just focus on character and what my character's point of view is, with each person, and try to figure out story.

Great actors like Willem Dafoe and Ellen Page and Samuel L. Jackson will go and do a videogame, because they understand that storytelling isn't just necessarily about filmmaking.

Plots are artificial. Does your life have a plot? It has characters. There is a narrative. There's a lot of story, a lot of character. But plot? Eh, no.

For me, any story I tackle begins with the human relationships and not the plot.

You can even express movies and poetry using video games. For those reasons, I've decided to create stories through video games.

It was always about the story rather than the character.

As much as most of the actors were kind of curious to know what their character meant in relation to the script and to the plot, they really were quite happy to be part of the adventure of not knowing.

There are very few films that work like a novel.

And almost always there has to be change, change in the characters is the journey - it's the story.

You'll work hard to create characters that are compelling and unforgettable. But in the end, it's the story that matters.

At the heart of every story is conflict - whether external or internal, make it a good one, and remember that this problem is going to shape your character, leaving her forever changed.

The characters are always the focal point of a book for me, whether I'm writing or reading. I may enjoy a book that has an intriguing mystery or a good plot, but to become one of my real favorites, it has to have great characters.

If you are willing to take the trip through 'Analogue,' you'll be rewarded with some of the best writing in gaming today and a look into the future of what kind of meaningful stories video games are capable of telling.

As filmmakers, we're constantly always looking for something to bring the audience deeper into the reality of the story we're telling.

Lastly get emotionally connected to your story so you can deliver it, you know, if you can't deliver the emotions to your script there's no point to your story. Story is the key.

In a story, you have to have a theme and an angle, you have to have a beginning, middle and an end. You have to have a defining moment and kick it to death. You gotta be able to recognize that, by the way. It probably takes experience.

You can have a bunch of great actors in a film, but if you don't have anyone telling a great story, it's a moot point.

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

It's almost like these games are the modern day comic books, especially when you play Alone in the Dark. There's a real story that goes along with it and a movie seemed like the right kind of transition to make.