Disha Patani Quotes

If you know exactly what your character knows, it's a drama.

Good scripts and interesting stories are hard enough to find.

When you're writing a novel - at least the way I write is I work from what I would call 'emotional atmosphere,' ambiance to ambiance.

To combine telling an interesting story with brilliantly written characters is the most difficult thing to do.

I have always argued, in a good novel, interesting things happen to interesting people.

Plot and character are virtually the same thing.

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

Theme is great for people who like to approach stories that way, but it's an organizing principle that helps us write a story that has some weight; it's not something that all readers have to care about.

The basic quality that any great story must have is a story that illustrates the human condition.

I don't start with the characters. I start with the series of events that will provide the conflict and how it can be resolved. Characters are incidental.

It's really about, oh come on, this guy wouldn't say that or he wouldn't do that, you know, it's about the characters, about the story, about the situation.

Once a novel gets going and I know it is viable, I don't then worry about plot or themes. These things will come in almost automatically because the characters are now pulling the story.

So I work hard to present the human side of my characters while not neglecting the plot.

In judging other people's work, particularly short stories, I have noticed how novice writers tell the readers everything about their characters in the first paragraphs, disclose their motives, reveal their recent activities and their future intentions.

I don't need all that much - I just need to know who my characters are and what kind of jam they're going to get into, and I'll write myself out of their jam.

I'm always looking for a low-budget script with an interesting character to play.

One of the ways my first novel failed was that I was too in love with my characters.

I don't do issue writing. I do character writing.

What I have to outline is action and plot because I'm not particularly good at that.

My only conclusion about structure is that nothing works if you don't have interesting characters and a good story to tell.

Most of my films have been very character driven.

Producing is figuring out how to make each character have a distinct voice, how to make the story twist and turn - that's the biggest challenge.

I look for what responsibility the character has in telling the story. If you remove the role from the story, can you still tell the story properly? And if the answer is no, then I'm interested.

For me, 'The Hobbit' is an object lesson in storytelling, both in terms of characterization and story structure. It is an exemplar of storytelling in that regard.

It always comes down to script and characters.