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I recurred on 'Grey's Anatomy' for three years, and at the same time, I recurred for eight episodes on 'Rescue Me'. And I'd recurred for nine episodes on 'The Practice'. Frankly, the guest star is often the most compelling character.
Kate Burton
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The story drove the book. That had a very seminal effect on the way I saw writing and storytelling. If you can set a character in a story that is compelling and has a backbone, you draw people in.
Dick Wolf
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As a writer, my only responsibility is to tell a compelling story.


Jay Asher
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The villain in superhero movies is often, I think, what makes the movie.


Toby Emmerich
I think the tricky balance, the most important thing more than the horror is to have a compelling story, compelling drama, a show about great characters that you care about and you want to come back every week to see what they're up to.
Oren Peli
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I'll tell you the secret. When you begin with a character, you want to begin by creating a villain.


Dorothy Allison
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A simple story filmed with limited sets can often be more effective than a costly extravaganza. provided it had depth and allows the audience to identify with the character.
King Vidor
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If the story's interesting and it's a compelling script, I'd be thrilled to be a part of it.


Andre Braugher
Often the art in a video game is like glorified Thomas Kinkade, but some of it is genuinely enchanting and compelling.
Tom Bissell
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Hollywood constantly wants to label you and type you into a certain category, 'Oh he's a comedy guy,' or the weirdo character guy or the villain.
Sam Rockwell
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I used to get stuck trying to find the first sentence of a story, then I realised that it was often because I didn't know what problem a character was facing in the story. As soon as I did, I could have the character trying to do something about it or have the problem whack him between the eyes.
Morris Gleitzman
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I often feel like a pretender when wearing makeup. The most beautiful features in a woman are her character and her experiences. Why hide that?
Masiela Lusha
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Most of the names in my books have secondary meaning. Sometimes they foreshadow; sometimes they tell you about the character's origin or back story.
Gail Carriger
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I believe that the story is the most important element of any medium whether it's theater, film, TV.


Chad Lowe
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If significant amounts of time go by without suspenseful action - which is often most powerfully motivated by backstory - the story loses momentum, and readers lose interest.
Leigh Michaels
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I think I learned discipline on 'Jane Eyre.' Charlotte Bronte's dialogue, the intellectual duel between Rochester and Jane Eyre's character, is so compelling that you didn't have to do much with the placement of cameras.
Cary Fukunaga
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Personally, I see little distinction between an artistic mentality and criminality. You couldn't possibly create a compelling story without some wickedness or some fascination with the disgusting. Being good is a hindrance to a writer.
Russell Smith
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The Olympics remain the most compelling search for excellence that exists in sport, and maybe in life itself.
Dawn Fraser
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It really doesn't matter whether it's the villain or the hero. Sometimes the villain is the most colorful. But I prefer a part where you don't know what he is until the end.
Glenn Ford
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There is a kind of structure for a story that was peculiarly compelling for the radio. I thought I had invented it atom-by-atom sitting in an editing booth in Washington on M Street when I was in my 20s. Then I found out that it is one of the oldest forms of telling a story - it was the structure of a sermon.
Ira Glass
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