Frances McDormand

I became interested in educating people in the variety of ways in which women can express their emotion. Which is much easier to do in a large role than in a supporting role to a male protagonist. In general, the women in a supporting role to a male protagonist - cry a lot.

American Actress

Jordan Peele

Thelma and Louise' was a pretty important film for me and still is. It's a social film about many things - gender, freedom - and it puts someone like me into the place of these protagonists. Watching that movie, you are living through the eyes of these women.

American Actor

Juliet Marillier

Each of my novels features a protagonist undertaking a difficult personal journey. On the way, each of these characters - mostly female - discovers something about herself and at the same time makes an impact on other people's lives.

New Zealander Writer

Nancy Kress

The reader is going to imprint on the characters he sees first. He is going to expect to see these people often, to have them figure largely into the story, possibly to care about them. Usually, this will be the protagonist.

American Writer

Hunter S. Thompson

The writer must be a participant in the scene... like a film director who writes his own scripts, does his own camera work, and somehow manages to film himself in action, as the protagonist or at least the main character.

American Journalist

James Spader

The protagonists that I've played tend to be people who make trouble. Or even if they don't make it, they certainly disrupt things. It's fun to do that in life as well. But I don't think I ever played myself.

Julian Nagelsmann

As as a coach you shouldn't take yourself too seriously and never forget that the main protagonists are the players. Your own influence is sometimes less than one believes or hopes for.

German Coach

Jessica Stockholder

Things have character. So I'm interested in how the character of the thing might function as a protagonist in what isn't a narrative.

American Artist

Laura Dern

I'm interested in flawed protagonists. I was raised on them.

Lulu Wang

Protagonists traditionally are active characters.

Chinese Writer

The protagonist drives the story forward; their decisions matter most to the plot.

Identity Center

Readers often sympathize with the protagonist, experiencing the story through their eyes.

Empathy Hook

The protagonist isn't always morally good; they can be flawed or even villainous.

Not Always Good

The protagonist in a movement inspires others and symbolizes the collective struggle.

Inspirational Figure

This protagonist actively drives the cause, influencing real-world events or changes.

Driving Force

While often used in formal or academic contexts, it can appear in casual discussions about social movements.

Not Always Formal

 One single thing that everybody was going to because it didn't have the traditional slower path of infections that you might expect. And so he went right in there and started interviewing people. He eventually enlisted the help of this amazing other figure, who's kind of the other protagonist of the book --

Steven Johnson: A guided...

 the protagonists of the narrative it's their story and I think just you know a quick aside of what that blot the story did you just said it's so powerful about the blind kid who knew like even though he can't see he he wants to be in the frame well and he wants to be represented also well there is a bigger

Storytellers Summit Day...

 of stories that actually place me as a protagonist inside of various imagined romances with him. So in one, I tell him that I'm pregnant with his child. In another, we meet in hospital where we're both fighting cancer, and in another, we fall so deeply in love that we become fugitives who kill people.

For the love of fangirls...

 Of course, these characters are far from perfect. They often think they have all the answers. And by telling the story from their perspective, Austen tricks the viewer into believing their heroine knows best– only to pull the rug out from under the protagonist and the reader.

The wicked wit of Jane...

 and must negotiate with a shadowy cast of characters. Like many of Dickens’s protagonists, poor Pip's position is constantly destabilized, just one of the reasons why reading Dickens is the best of times for the reader, while being the worst of times for his characters.

Why should you read...

 K, the protagonist, is arrested out of nowhere and made to go through a bewildering process where neither the cause of his arrest, nor the nature of the judicial proceedings are made clear to him. This sort of scenario is considered so characteristic of Kafka's work

What makes something...

 and he felt the protagonist was the painter himself. Franz Kafka saw incompletion when others would find only works to praise, so much so that he wanted all of his diaries, manuscripts, letters and even sketches burned upon his death.

Sarah Lewis: Embrace the...

 where books are banned from all areas of life - and possessing, let alone reading them, is forbidden. The protagonist, Montag, is a fireman responsible for destroying what remains. But as his pleasure gives way to doubt,

 But you didn't. You haven't done anything. Listening is an important but insufficient step towards social action. Secondly, I think often we are drawn towards characters and protagonists who are likable and human.

Sisonke Msimang: If a...

 love the protagonists of my books are strong and passionate women like rose map endo I don't make them up there's no need for that I look around and I see them everywhere I have worked with women