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I don't really write plots. I use history as the engine that drives everything.
The cliches are that it's the most generic Starsky and Hutch plot you can find.
Movies are all about plot. Theater, even if it's story heavy, it's about ideas.
I like having a plot, I like characters with a reason to get up in the morning.
I farm a little plot of things to say, with not much frontage on the busy road.
The guilty is he who meditates a crime; the punishment is his who lays the plot.
For me, any story I tackle begins with the human relationships and not the plot.
I could make up characters till the cows came home. Plot's what hard. Very hard.
We will never be a part of any plot against those who are governing our country.
The first black president was a hotter plot line than the first woman president.
I feel a lot of adult fiction looks down on plot as a lesser form of literature.
When you get to set, you don't try to play the plot; you just play the character.
For me, plot always comes out of character, so I had to be sure of my characters.
I love the Shakespeare history plays, I love the struggle for the crown as a plot.
A lot of my early career, I wrote story songs that had narratives, that had plots.
In order to have a plot, you have to have a conflict, something bad has to happen.
[On the movie "American Hot Wax:] A plot so thin you could thread a needle with it.
Keith Richards outlived Jim Fixx, the runner and health-nut dude. The plot thickens.
What I have to outline is action and plot because I'm not particularly good at that.
Grief doesn't have a plot. It isn't smooth. There is no beginning and middle and end.
'Harry Potter' shouldn't be children's first experience with suspense and plot turns.
Story is honorable and trustworthy; plot is shifty, and best kept under house arrest.
But keep characters in propinquity long enough and a story will always develop a plot.
It takes work to plot a course that is both thrilling and truthful, but it's worth it.
I'm open to do a Filipino drama if I like the role or if the plot is attractive to me.
I always think plot is what you fall back on if you can't write, to keep things going.
I'm not a good crime writer. I'm not good with plots... so I have to do something else.
I don't really care about plot; I want to have a page-turner in a different kind of way.
One elephant having a trunk was odd; but all elephants having trunks looked like a plot.
So I work hard to present the human side of my characters while not neglecting the plot.
A film with an untidy plot cannot grip the audience and define their emotional response.
But really, if you ask me, there is only one kid of plot. One. Stuff happens. That's it.
I'm not willing to risk more terrorist plots succeeding and more paedophiles going free.
Life doesn't come in plot points or setups and payoffs. Life washes over you and passes.
Anything that happens on any show is a plot contrivance because that's just storytelling.
He that plots to be the only figure among ciphers [zeros], is the decay of the whole age.
My muse is an ungrateful harlot who’s abandoned me to actually come up with my own plots.
I'm always writing about character first. Plot, such as it is, comes from the characters.
No good opera plot can be sensible, for people do not sing when they are feeling sensible.
I try to trace the connection between the characters and that way a story or plot emerges.
No unemployment insurance can be compared to an alliance between a man and a plot of land.
Government should work to insure the rights of the individual, not plot to take them away.
The best laid plot can injure its maker, and often a man's perfidy will rebound on himself.
If you were to plot my success or failure, it goes, it very seldom stays on a high plateau.
Fine wits destroy themselves with their own plots, in meddling with great affairs of state.
The poem has to bear the weight with image, language... the screenplay with dialogue, plot.
The plot of 'Stranger Things' is so simple that even a brief description risks spoiling it.
It’s so real." "Most dreams are. It isn't until you wake up that you see all the plot holes.
There are only so many plots in the world. It's how they unfold that makes them interesting.
I have suggested that behind almost all myth lies the mono-plot of the game of hide-and-seek.