A Quote by Aristotle

PLOT is CHARACTER revealed by ACTION.

Aristotle

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Action Character Plot Revealed

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Aristotle
Greek - Philosopher
384 BC - 322 BC

I think action should be revealed through character, so if you have a plot problem, it's probably a character problem.

Zoe Kazan

Action is only really compelling when it reveals character - character revealed through action, and not action for its own sake.

Paul Greengrass

The biographical novel sets out to document this truth, for character is plot, character development is action, and character fulfillment is resolution.

Irving Stone

plot is character in action.

Maren Elwood

Character is revealed through action.

Aristotle

The characters are the plot. What they do and say and the things that happen to them are, in a sense, what the plot is. You can't take character and plot apart from each other, really.

Terry Pratchett

I'm certainly a plot and character man. Themes, structure, style - they're valid components of a novel and you can't complete the book without them. But I think what propels me as a reader is plot and character.

David Mitchell

Perception is naturally surpassed toward action; better yet, it can be revealed only in and through projects of action. The world is revealed as an "always future hollow", for we are always future to ourselves.

Jean-Paul Sartre

Remember: Plot is no more than footprints left in the snow after your characters have run by on their way to incredible destinations. Plot is observed after the fact rather than before. It cannot precede action. It is the chart that remains when an action is through. That is all Plot ever should be. It is human desire let run, running, and reaching a goal. It cannot be mechanical. It can only be dynamic.

Ray Bradbury

Character, story and plot are affected by any action sequence so you have to really design them accordingly.

Kari Skogland

I've always been very strong minded on character-based fights and character-based action. If you take the character out of the action and you just shoot it as an action sequence, the audience starts to lose connection.

Wade Eastwood

Consider: for all the gobbledegook [film studio] executives spout about backstory, all that we, the audience, want to know is what happens next. That's the only thing that's going on. . . . Character is nothing other than action, and character-driven means The plot stinks, and you'd better hope the star is popular enough to open the movie in spite of it.

David Mamet

There was a saying that a man's true character was revealed in defeat. I thought it was also revealed in victory.

Alison Goodman

I definitely feel that plot flows from character. I don't believe that you can construct a plot and insert people into it.

Lisa Unger

I didn't want to do comedy again. It is way harder when you are doing comedy. You can't just concentrate on the character and the plot. In comedy, the writers, instead of obsessing about character and plot, obsess about the jokes.