Gene Roddenberry Quotes

You're either in a conflict or you're not in a conflict.

I think conflict is one of the things that makes for a good story.

I don't think that there is a person that I've met - I'm sure there are - that I've had any conflict with.

For storytelling purposes, there has to be conflict, but that doesn't mean the people have to be mean. I've never liked mean-spirited comedy.

When you're a writer, you're always looking for conflict. It's conflict that drives great stories.

To observe people in conflict is a necessary part of a child's education. It helps him to understand and accept his own occasional hostilities and to realize that differing opinions need not imply an absence of love.

I'm interested in conflict and confrontation.

Experience means conflict, our natures being what they are, and conflict means drama.

I don't like to be feared, and I can't work in conflict, I'm very bad with conflict. I try to avoid it, it paralyzes me.

Next to coming to a good understanding with a new mistress, I love a quarrel with an old one.

I want my fights to be seen as plays that have a beginning, a middle and an end.

What I try to do in a play is put a problem on stage, head-on, without evasion.

You won't have a story unless you have conflict, which means if there's no conflict in a situation, people look for a way to make some.

I think every fight helps for the next.

Walking away from a problem is never a solution. Never. Solve the problem.

There's conflict in every story.

The roles I'm interested in or have been interested in, you know, it's going to get down to conflict. Drama is conflict - conflict of interests.

There's something to play if there's conflict going on. Whatever that conflict is, that's where drama is; if the character is grappling with something you've got something to play, there's layers to it.

Any kind of conflict draws me to a role.

To be honest with you, most of the times I have fought, there has been a reason.

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.

Thats why my biggest problems were with LL and Run.

Never go to bed angry, stay up and fight.

I don't avoid confrontation, people should know that.

People on both sides of any conflict believe they are right, whether it's on a TV show or in the real world.