Seth Grahame-Smith Quotes About Character

Quotes about: Character

• Most men have no purpose but to exist, Abraham; to pass quietly through history as minor characters upon a stage they cannot even see

  Seth Grahame-Smith

  Character, Men, Purpose

  Seth Grahame-Smith (2010). “Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter”, p.138, Hachette UK

• If a novelist has created vivid characters, interesting relationships, settings the reader can easily imagine, and intriguing stories, a screenwriter has loads to work with. The challenge comes with deciding what to cut and what to keep.

  Seth Grahame-Smith

  Character, Cutting, Interesting

• Movie characters rarely get to think out loud or talk very much about their emotions. Instead they have to, very briefly, show their feelings through their action or through dialog.

  Seth Grahame-Smith

  Character, Thinking, Feelings

• Some novels present a story form many points of view. Most movies tell only one person's side of the story. Sometime it's easy to use the strongest point of view, or find the character with the most dramatic experience. It depends on which themes the scriptwriter wants to explore.

  Seth Grahame-Smith

  Character, Views, Stories

• If a movie has more characters than an audience can keep track of, the audience will get confused and lose interest in the story.

  Seth Grahame-Smith

  Confused, Character, Track

• I always say that the characters in Jane Austen's original books are rather like zombies because they live in this bubble of immense wealth and privilege and no matter what's going on around them they have a singular purpose to maintain their rank and to impress others.

  Seth Grahame-Smith

  Book, Character, Zombie

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