There’s an arc to an action sequence, and you need to come out the other end knowing your character better, and maybe the story has moved forward in a compelling way.
The goal of my shows, my interviews, my business, my philanthropy, all of it, whatever ventures I might pursue, would be to make clear that what unites us is ultimately far more redeeming and compelling than anything that separates me.
NXT is unpredictable, and they are not afraid to tell a lot of different stories and compelling stories.
IBM’s long-standing mantra is ‘Think.’ What has always made IBM a fascinating and compelling place for me, is the passion of the company, and its people, to apply technology and scientific thinking to major societal issues.
For me, few things are more compelling than watching a great opera.
Israel fits into the zeitgeist of our era. It is true that there are demographic threats to its existence. That is why a separation from the Palestinians is a compelling imperative.
My first job is to write a book that I believe is compelling and deserves the long sustained attention that any novel requires, and to worry about the commerce only late in the game.
I feel it’s part of my job to make the problems of the poor compelling.
President Bush’s proposal to focus our resources on sending humans to Mars is intriguing, but it is not the most compelling reason that Americans ought to focus our interest on the Red Planet.
Anything that encourages a boy to open a book, in a world of more violent and therefore more compelling video games, is something I’m going to pay for.
Doubting what you see is a very odd experience. And doubting what you remember is a little less odd than doubting what you see. But it’s also a pretty odd experience, because some memories come with a very compelling sense of truth about them, and that happens to be the case even for memories that are not true.
I don’t want to shoot myself in the foot when it comes to getting work. But I’m just not as interested in most of the films that are made in the States. The characters aren’t as compelling. The stories aren’t as substantial.
Ours is a company that doesn’t do annualized software, and so when we create a ‘Zelda’ game, when we create a ‘Smash Bros.’ game, or a ‘Pokemon’ experience comes on the platform, it needs to be exceptionally compelling because we plan on selling it for a very long time.
‘Deity’ will be a compelling and exciting thriller with complex and interesting characters. A neo-realistic style to story and images will take the audience deep into Calcutta’s many different levels. A fascinating clash between American and Indian culture.
Quite often, I have a compelling sense of how a role should be played. And I’m proved – equally as often – quite wrong.
Often the art in a video game is like glorified Thomas Kinkade, but some of it is genuinely enchanting and compelling.
In my own life, I share my home with works by artists like Elizabeth Murray, Martin Puryear, Jackie Windsor and so many others, whose creativity is clear and fresh and compelling; the works break through the usual, and they inspire creativity; they inspire responses and understanding.
You need to be a good filmmaker to make a compelling two-minute film as well.
I think, in a lot of ways, if you really strip down some of the most compelling novels, in a lot of ways, they’re detective stories.
I love discovering compelling new ideas and doing what I can to help spread the word about them.
People assume actresses are afraid to get older; the truth is the roles get a whole lot more compelling once you’re too old to play dumb.
What I find compelling is the moment in which people realize, with suffering and pain, that in the past there was a time when they were happy, because back then the present and the future coincided – they were one and the same thing.
Growing up when I was watching wrestling, if a guy couldn’t talk, I didn’t care about him. You could have the fanciest moves and be the greatest wrestler if all time, but if you didn’t have a compelling character and you couldn’t talk, I didn’t care.
Well, Well, Well, its certainly a compelling provocative exciting delicious to think about idea, smart people say the universe is so big there must be something statistically it could be likely there could be something happening on some other world.
Lena Dunham has a very compelling face.
If you make compelling television, they will come.
Everyone needs some kind of compelling drama in their life, basically.
I’d love to work with Sir Anthony Hopkins, but if that doesn’t happen, I’d sneak on to a film set and watch him at work. He is a compelling actor.
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.
The reason I choose the stories I choose – and it’s why it takes me so long to find ideas – is that I’m looking for that very thing. I want an idea that begins, I want a middle that is compelling and will bring readers along, and I definitely want an ending.
With a very small team you can create compelling content and reach a large audience.
The best part of watching any show is that feeling of being sucked in. If I’m watching ‘Breaking Bad,’ there is something compelling about Walter White.
You need to get outside of your comfort zone to write songs that are interesting, songs that are compelling, songs that are different from what other people are writing.
I think the mystery of what’s out there in the universe is just very compelling.
The paradox of reality is that no image is as compelling as the one which exists only in the mind’s eye.
The bottom line is that we have entered an age when local communities need to invest in themselves. Federal and state dollars are becoming more and more scarce for American cities. Political and civic leaders in local communities need to make a compelling case for this investment.
It would be hard to find a more compelling example of the American dream than Alberto Gonzales.
If you have some magical chemistry that actually find the music you make compelling, that is a big bonus.
I find it much more compelling to make a four-biter that leaves you wishing that you had a fifth. I think ‘the tyranny of the entree’ is the right way to put it. I don’t want to build this giant plate of food.
I’m obsessed with those old romance films. I also would love to venture into the silent film world. I think that’s extremely compelling and interesting and really relies on the acting, even more so than when you have an actor speaking.
If it doesn’t come through the Internet, it’s not really compelling to me.
The story of getting better can be just as compelling as the story of falling apart.
I think video advertising is a hugely compelling medium.
I find writing the darker side, writing tragedy, a lot easier than writing happiness. Happiness is just less psychologically compelling, isn’t it?
I was opposed to the U.S. involvement in Libya from the very start. President Obama has never made a compelling national security case on Libya.
I always tell my students to complicate your characters: never make it easy for the reader. Nobody is ever one thing. That’s what makes characters compelling.
I tend to write first drafts that are incredibly cognitive, very rational, very boring. They come off as justification. Like, ‘This is my idea and here’s all the reasons that it’s right.’ It doesn’t make for very compelling reading.
Whether you’re a banker or a botanist – the economic benefits of a clean energy revolution are compelling.
Stories surge up out of nowhere, and if they feel compelling, you follow them. You let them unfold inside you and see where they are going to lead.
I think good kids TV has got to have layers. It has to have compelling characters that everyone loves, but you can’t dumb it down.
I’ve come up in the scripted world, and I have wished there were more time slots for us to tell compelling scripted stories and not fill the airwaves with a lot of fluff and tabloid entertainment.
I was born into a world in which the most compelling stories are through film. But that wasn’t always the case. Everything changes; everything evolves.
There’s something very beautiful and compelling about someone who has ambition and someone who knows what they want, but it can get a little frustrating at times, so I understand that. I have sympathy for that.
It is in the compelling zest of high adventure and of victory, and in creative action, that man finds his supreme joys.
Millions of men have lived to fight, build palaces and boundaries, shape destinies and societies; but the compelling force of all times has been the force of originality and creation profoundly affecting the roots of human spirit.
The most compelling evidence for God’s existence is Christ. If God does not exist, then Christ was the biggest fool who ever lived.
The villain of any story is often the most compelling character.
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.