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I truly believe that the story behind 'The Room' is more fascinating and bizarre than 'The Room.'
There's a certain amount of world-building that I hold off on until I need it for the story. World building in advance isn't really my thing, maybe because I didn't grow up playing RPG's.
I really told my story as I saw it in 'Cross to Bear,' and I was pleased - and a bit surprised - by how well it was received and how it sold. No. 2 on the 'New York Times' bestseller list? I'll take that any day, my man!
It was Orwellian. I completely disappeared, and disappeared the same day. It was by early that evening when the Times story ran. That was an overreaction. All human beings under pressure behave poorly.
To combine telling an interesting story with brilliantly written characters is the most difficult thing to do.
I come from a prose background. I come from short story background, and that led me into novels.
The story of how Chile, in the decades after its 1973 coup and death of democratically elected socialist president Salvador Allende, became one of the most neoliberal societies on the planet is well known.
I was at Elon University in North Carolina for two years pursuing my BFA. And after my sophomore year, I was cast in the Broadway Tour of 'West Side Story.' I just kind of - it always was my favorite show growing up.
I guess my inspiration is this - I like to pretend that every story that ever happened to 'Batman' was real and is part of this one guy's life.
I decided to take my foot off the pedal with all the detail. I'm sure after 'Animalia' and 'The Eleventh Hour,' readers thought that's what to expect from Graeme Base. With 'The Sign of the Seahorse,' I took a step away from the puzzle-book genre - that was more of an adventure story.
And almost always there has to be change, change in the characters is the journey - it's the story.
What I'm interested in doing in a story is bringing certain different languages, people, events together and then letting the reader make what he wants of it.
Jack Kennedy very much enjoyed Fletcher Knebel's thriller 'Seven Days in May,' later a film. The story: a jingo based on the real-life Admiral Arthur Radford plans a military coup to take over the White House.
There is a sense that animated movies are suddenly a genre. I just don't believe they are; it's a technique to tell a story.
I always wanted to do an animated movie. I find it to be incredibly liberating as a way of telling a story.
When I die, my epitaph should read: She Paid the Bills. That's the story of my private life.
But when you get to a song, not only do you have to do a vocal melody, you have to write words and not be redundant and make some semblance of a story.
I think we are smashing it as a government in terms of economic performance and infrastructure spend, but not everybody feels part of that success story.
If I had to choose criteria, for me, it's about first the director. I want to be a part of something that's good and intellectually challenging. After the director it's the character and the story. That's the deal for me.
I grew up in the '70s and in Los Angeles during the new blockbuster era. 'Star Wars' was the first film that I saw in the movie theater. I wanted to be an actor; then it turned out to be this 'Wizard of Oz' story: I was 10 or 11 years old, and it turned into something that I didn't think it was.
I wanted to write a story about my struggles with depression and mental health. It's an issue that needs to be talked about more.
In college, I discovered the Joyce Carol Oates short story 'Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?' which is definitely one of the most incredibly unnerving, frightening short stories ever written.
Judaism is not just a religion but a people, and the food and customs of one part of the people is connected to the other part of the people. They are part of a larger story.
I was a better writer when I was teaching. I was constantly going over the basics and constantly reminding myself, as I reminded my students, what made a good story, a good poem.
I wanted to do pretty much a purely boy story, yes. The girls are kind of the bad guys in 'Marble Season', although that wasn't my intention. It's also a world without adults.
Whichever character I'm using and wherever I am in my mind dictates what kind of story I'm going to tell.
All of my favourite albums have this incredible amount of conceptual glue to them, even if they are not telling a story.
But to make a long story short, I decided that I was going to run, and I announced that I was going to run for president in Florida, I would be the favorite son from Florida, and that would stop Johnson and Kennedy from dividing up the state.
The longer the president goes without telling his side of the story, the more unease there will be in the public.
The Odyssey is, indeed, one of the greatest of all stories, it is the original romance of the West; but the Iliad, though a magnificent poem, is not much of a story.
Chekhov - shall I be blunt? - is the greatest short story writer who ever lived.
I wasted a lot of years working on my writing and very grandly saying, 'And now... My Novel!,' which would soon be reduced to a short story, then to a paragraph.
Early on, a story's meaning and rationale seem pretty obvious, but then, as I write it, I realize that I know the meaning/rationale too well, which means that the reader will also know it - and so things have to be ramped up.
That seems to be the definition of 'novel' for me: a story that hasn't yet discovered a way to be brief.
Our efforts to preserve and protect the Alamo are first and foremost about preserving and protecting the story of the battle itself.
Oprah is just this goddess presiding over so much of American life, and her story is really interesting - the way she made herself, and the ruthlessness it took, and also the fantasizing that it took.
Incarcerated individuals want what most people want in a novel: good, honest writing and a story well told.
My favorite monologue in the book is Kate Harrington's story of her relationship with Truman.
I still write the occasional short story, and poked at a novel once, but it's just not what I want to do.
A special effect is a tool, a means of telling a story. A special effect without a story is a pretty boring thing.
All the tribes tell the same story. They are surrounded on all sides, the game is destroyed or driven away; they are left to starve, and there remains but one thing for them to do - fight while they can.
Unless the story line carries the scenes, the scenes don't really mean anything.
No story is the same to us after a lapse of time; or rather we who read it are no longer the same interpreters.
I could program a 'fabulous, I love it' kind of hit season right now. I'm more interested in breaking boundaries, telling a story, defying a truth that has been accepted.
I don't regret 'West Side Story' one bit. It was an incredible movie full of young people with amazing rapport.
I don't believe I was jinxed or hexed by winning an Academy Award in my first picture, 'West Side Story.'
In ballet a complicated story is impossible to tell... we can't dance synonyms.
Parents don't take a baby's temperature to decide whether the room is too warm; likewise, for global warming, we need a story that spurs us to do what is necessary.
It's their story, and I got to be the guy in the back while they were in the foreground.
Ambiguity is necessary in some of my stories, not in all. In those, it certainly contributes to the richness of the story. I doubt that thematic closure is never attainable.
I really feel that I've been unjustly exorcised from the story of psychedelic music.
Once I have the grain of an idea, it haunts me until I finish the story. I don't like to be haunted, of course, so immediately get to work.
Most writers have no idea how to make a film. It's a totally different skill set. Nor is it just to translate exactly what's on the page directly on to the screen - because that would be terrible. It would be five hours long, and the structure would be a mess. But the writers know the characters and the story.
'Twilight' is a breathlessly addictive read with a love story that sucks people in.
There is a beauty of seeing a picture and making out what the story behind it might be.
I write linearly without knowing the full story. I discover it as I write it.
The Leicester story is great for the game in England. It's great for the appreciation of the Premier League.
When 5150 came out rock was king. Post Nirvana and Pearl Jam 1996 is a different story.
I like to be involved with the scriptwriter early on, helping shape the story, and working out how the story can be told directorially.
With a mini series you can give the story a proper sense of pacing, a proper sense of closure.
Even after all these years, finding a really first-rate story is still a thrill, one I want to share with others.
I'm not closing the door on my solo career, but with 5th Story, if the public demand is there, then I'll continue to work with the band. If not, we'll all go our separate ways again.
This is not a football film. It's about two individuals - two good friends telling their story.
If you are not on TV, you don't really exist. I want to bring my comedy to the world and tell my story to a bigger audience.
People need to take as much interest in other sports as they take in cricket, and that's where we come across a vicious cycle of performance, sponsorship, recognition, jobs and TV visibility. It's a typical chicken-and-egg story; each one is directly related to the other without an answer for what comes first.
All I had, originally, were pages of Nolan's dialogue. I think his character serves the story in a nice way. He's a Greek chorus for the goings-on in the Hamptons.
What we wanted to do was tell a story that felt relatable to anyone who's been a teenager. We haven't all been a second-generation Pakistani-American girl with superpowers, but we've all been 16 and awkward.
'Air' is very placeless - it's set in many different countries, and much of the story is about going places rather than being places. 'Air' is about travelers, and I'm a chronic traveler.
I wanted to tell my story and where I came from and my background, because it was not easy.
A story has been thought through to the end when it has taken the worst possible turn.
Great visual effects serve story and character and in doing so, are, by their very definition, invisible.
I like to compare the holiday season with the way a child listens to a favorite story. The pleasure is in the familiar way the story begins, the anticipation of familiar turns it takes, the familiar moments of suspense, and the familiar climax and ending.
TV is bigger than any story it reports. It's the greatest teaching tool since the printing press.
The computer can't tell you the emotional story. It can give you the exact mathematical design, but what's missing is the eyebrows.
Someday we'll learn the whole story of why George W. Bush brushed off that intelligence briefing of Aug. 6, 2001, 'Bin Laden Determined to Strike in U.S.' But surely a big distraction was the major speech he was readying for delivery on Aug. 9, his first prime-time address to the nation.
I wanted to write a novel where the meaning is in the story and characters and the subliminal, in the shades and nuances. It's exciting to develop that as a writer.
A compelling story, even if factually inaccurate, can be more emotionally compelling than a dry recitation of the truth.
The story seems to be that almost every star has a planetary system... and, also, the definition of 'habitable zone' has expanded. In our system, it used to be that only Mars and Earth were potentially habitable. Now we've got an ocean on Europa... Titan.
I think a story should take as long to tell as it is appropriate to that particular story.
There have been low moments before, but Christianity is an incredibly adaptable organism, using different parts of its repertoire to mutate into new ecological niches, yet preserving intact its story of grace, of love improbably triumphant.
There are two separate scripts for 'Mockingjay' parts one and two. It's definitely one story, but there are two totally distinct and separate scripts.
Telling the story from start to finish, that adrenaline fuels me and keeps me going.
I don't have a great story, but I love Boards of Canada. I didn't get into it when it was happening; I got into it later on.
It doesn't matter the amount of gore, the amount of shocks that you can have in a movie if the movie's not entertaining, if the story's not entertaining.
Filmmaking, whatever the window dressing or the scale of a film may be, is eventually about telling a story.
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