I feel a lot of adult fiction looks down on plot as a lesser form of literature.
'From Here to Eternity' happens to be fourteen-carat entertainment. The main trouble is that it is too entertaining for a film in which love affairs flounder, one sweet guy is beaten to death, and a man of high principles is mistaken for a saboteur and killed on a golf course.
Do you want to see a mother and son antagonistically attack each other every single episode for five years? I don't think so.
There is one plot point in one of the 'D'Arnath' books that I don't think I handled as well as I could have. Am I going to tell you which one? No way!
I've always been really turned off by a show where you're kind of just rooting for someone regardless of the stupid things that they do, or regardless of how their ego is clearly driving what they're doing.
Any time two characters are talking about a third, the scene is a crock of s***.
The writer I adore is Ivy Compton-Burnett.I couldn't get more than a few pages in when I first read her. In many ways, she is very clumsy and her plots are rubbish. But we don't read her for that. There are pages and pages of dialogue. What it requires is real effort and attention.
With relatively few exceptions, the novel sacrifices too much, for me, on the altar of plot.
[Reviewing the New York City Telephone Directory] But it is the opinion of the present reviewer that the weakness of plot is due to the great number of characters which clutter up the pages. The Russian school is responsible for this.
I know from the past, critics often say my films don't have any plot, that kind of thing. I'm used to being told, "Yeah, it's slow and has no plot."
[On the movie "American Hot Wax:] A plot so thin you could thread a needle with it.
I think I'm misunderstood when I post these comments about films. So here is Kate Winslet sitting on - you know, laying on this plank. This ship is down. She let her boyfriend drown. They didn't even try a second time to get him to float on that with her. So I'm angry by that. I think...
I don't like novels that tie everything up in a plot-y way. I always think that's not really true of life, particularly of people in power.
There wasn't a single good character in 'Titanic' who was English and this is typical.
Plot is just a fancy way of saying 'and then.
I've read one too many thrillers that had really horrible technology in them.
