Rose Namajunas Quotes

With any good story, you need the adversary, the heroes and villains. You need a good mixture to make it work.

Well, you need the villain. If you don't have a villain, the good guy can stay home.

Good stories are driven by conflict, tension, and high stakes.

Tension is the cornerstone of any good story.

Here's what happens in a play. You get involved in a situation where something is unbalanced. If nothing's unbalanced, there's no reason to have a play. If Hamlet comes home from school, and his dad's not dead and asks him if he's had a good time, it's boring. But if something's unbalanced, it must be returned to order.

The villain of any story is often the most compelling character.

I love a really good storyline.

When you're not playing the hero of the story, then you have to know that you're always a foil for the good guy. I love playing that. I think that's always an interesting place to be.

I firmly believe that a story is only as good as the villain.

Usually, you just have a hero and a villain - in any movie, not just a superhero movie.

Stories work better when not everyone gets what they want.

Judgments and secrets are what make a good novel.

Storytelling is about two things; it's about character and plot.

Conflict drives fiction; no one wants to read a four-hundred-page novel in which everything rolls along smoothly.

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

The villain drives the plot.

In plotting a book, my goal is to raise the stakes for the characters and, in so doing, keep the reader mesmerized.

It is much more fun to write about villains then heroes. The villains are the ones that think out the scheme, and the heroes just kind of come along for the ride.

I love good stories; you have to have a good plot - characters which intertwine with a good plot.

For mine, the villains of the piece were always important. In a traditional sense, that's always an important role.

If you have a beautiful story, it has to have conflict. If you don't have conflict, it can't be a good story.

At the heart of drama is conflict.

Suspense films are often based on communication problems, and that affects all of the plot points. It almost gives it kind of a fable feeling.

In order to have a plot, you have to have a conflict, something bad has to happen.

The way I express ideas is through the plot, Suspense is an important part of expressing an idea.