Julie Plec Quotes

I like people to be surprised by the turn of events. I don't want things just to be pat and formulaic. If there's some sort of internal combustion in the character or a desire to change the way things are going, that makes for conflict, which is the essence of drama.

In soaps, people come back from the dead all the time, to the point where death is just a bus stop.

We like drama. Even in our comedy, we like drama.

Dramatically it's always more interesting to conceal rather than reveal things.

Jeff Eastin is good in that he'll tell me a plot twist that's coming up if he thinks it would be something Peter would know ahead of time, and if it's something that would be a surprise to Peter, I'll tell Jeff, 'Oh, don't tell me. I don't want to know.' And then it's exciting to read it and exciting to play it.

Good drama must be drastic.

It's so fun to play a character that has so many layers that people won't even know, until the next season.

I don't care if it's a mystery story, a Western, or the story of Julius Caesar. To me it's the emotion, the lies, the double-cross, whether it's Brutus doing it to Caesar or Bob Stack doing it to Robert Ryan that defines what kind of drama it is.

I'll tell you all my secrets but I lie about my past.

Drama is always conflict. Conflict either comes from within or without. The thing that makes a show different is the conflict manifests itself both internally and externally.

The producers like to keep people guessing and keep them on the edge of their seats.

You don’t know what’s going to happen in the end, and that’s what the best plays are.

The stories are what no one wants to talk about. So you make up a story because no one is going to tell you the truth.

What's interesting to me is drama and conflict. Things aren't interesting without conflict and resolution of conflict - or striving towards a resolutions of conflict.

Drama is based on the Mistake.

Contrast is the dramatist's method.

But after all, the villains are the salt in the soup of a story.

For me, suspense doesn't have any value if it's not balanced by humor.

All you need to know about plotting is twofold. 1. Give your characters goals. 2. Don't let them reach those goals.

My word, Severus, that I shall never reveal the best of you?' Dumbledore sighed, looking down into Snape's ferocious, anguished face. 'If you insist.

I was tired of secrets, tired of seeing things I was not supposed to see. And so I just cried.

I don't stay in the genre because I just like all stories that have a smart hook in them and I can find a comic way through if it's a comedy or a suspenseful way through it if it's a drama.

If I really knew how to do good storytelling, I would be a writer. Mystery is not a huge part of it. ... It's tension, it's relationships. I think it's a struggle.

For me, all drama is based on conflict.