Protagonist Journey Quotes

You have to think about good storytelling and characters first. Then hopefully, the rest of that stuff will follow, some more than others. But if you don't have a good film and strong characters, then you don't have anything down the road.

At the heart of any successful film is a powerful story. And a story should be just that: a narrative with a beginning, middle, and end, powerful protagonists that audiences can identify with, and a dramatic arc that is able to capture and hold viewers' intellectual and emotional attention.

In an early version of the story, I thought Aang could shepherd a herd of twenty bison.

The conventional Aristotelian plot proceeds by means of a protagonist, an antagonist, and a series of events comprising a rising action, climax and denouement.

I love taking a character and raining holy hell down on them and seeing how they respond, how they react. It's one of the things I do in almost all my books - my protagonist is put through a very stressful situation that tests their strength and their psychological acuity. That's one of the core components of who I am as a writer.

The great movie can be as free of being a record of the progress of the protagonist as is a dream.

I don't really think in terms of genre, I think in terms of story and character.

You can film the most exciting car chase and the most exciting stunts, but if you don't care about the person inside the car, and you don't care about their predicament, you're not really going to care about the action, either.

Kratos began life as an anti-hero at a time when anti-heroes in games were scarce.

And the most important thing - apart from telling a good, believable story, and being a true character - is to be someone the audience will care about, even if you're playing a murderer or rapist.

Each of my novels features a protagonist undertaking a difficult personal journey. On the way, each of these characters - mostly female - discovers something about herself and at the same time makes an impact on other people's lives.

There's something about film that offers this opportunity to stick to a very, very clear single protagonist's point of view, and I like that.

I don't hover over the thought of only playing a protagonist.

I think the key is to give the reader characters they not only care about, but identify with, and to never take away all hope.

It's important to know the kind of character that you need to be building up to, throughout the series.

A lot of people ask for sequels, but what they really want is just to know the characters are happy and safe.

You don't need to like your protagonists.

You can take risks with the characters and their development in a standalone novel.

I had to write something and couldn't think of a plot, so I decided to write a Cinderella story because it already had a plot! Then, when I thought about Cinderella's character, I realized that she was too much of a goody-two-shoes for me, and I would hate her before I finished ten pages.