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I've never read Joseph Campbell, and I don't know all that much about story archetypes.
I just love photographing things and putting them together to tell a story.
Whenever you write a true story, it's not going to go over 100 percent well with everybody.
You can watch any episode you want and have a compelling story being told.
The medium is less important than the story we're trying to tell and the funniest way to tell it.
I think Broadway is waking up to the idea that rap is an incredible tool for telling a musical story.
I want Tom Clancy, the Maryland novelist, to write the story of the rest of my life.
Sometimes when you tell a story, you reach a little bit too far just to make the story a better one.
And one thing that I always believed and that I knew for certain was that I could never have sustained a personal relationship while I worked this hard, or while I was that driven this intensely by the story.
I see theater as a simple formula. Audience plus players plus story makes the play.
I mean, the shoe - there is a music to it, there is attitude, there is sound, it's a movement. Clothes - it's a different story. There are a million things I'd rather do before designing clothes: directing, landscaping.
I'm a graphic-novel guy. I can't handle the wait for monthly or bi-monthly comics; I need the story finished so I can buy the whole thing.
I think what the story of Yes has been is we've wandered in and out of different styles over the years.
I was about 28-29 when I wrote my first story, and that was called 'The Garden of Abdul Gasazi.'
I don't think of myself as an illustrator. I think of myself as a cartoonist. I write the story with pictures - I don't illustrate the story with the pictures.
It's a wonderful story for the gun lobby to tell that if you just load up schools with weapons, you'll be safer. All of the evidence suggests that homes and communities that have more weapons have more gun crimes, not less.
There has to be the right pacing of images to tell the story. I'm always stunned at how little you can put in.
I very much use Bill Willingham's approach on 'Fables,' which is that rather than having an end point to a series, I have an end point for the various story lines.
I'm just a public-schoolboy. I've got a degree. I'm from a middle-class family in Devon. I've got no story.
We start with strong characters and build the movie from there. That not to say we don't struggle with story - that's the most challenging part.
When we moved from 'Ice Age' to 'Ice Age 2,' we were really stuck; a story didn't just organically emerge. While I'm very proud of 'Ice Age 2,' from a storytelling sense, it's a very thin story.
We build camera rigs tailored specifically to the story we're trying to tell or the shot we're trying to capture.
I'm glad I have a story to tell. It's unique, it's mine, and I'm blessed to have it.
My first U.S. Open I think was just very special for me because that was sort of the beginning of what was a 'Cinderella' story for me.
Everyone is treating it like a Hollywood story. In Madison, it's a neighborhood story.
The Iraqi Free Press, which did not exist 18 months ago because there was no such thing as the Iraqi Free Press, broke a story about the U.N. Oil-for-Food scandal, which could potentially turn out to be the largest scandal in history.
The most important thing in games isn't the designer's narrative, but the story the player creates through his experiences.
Why a ghost story? Well, I love them. They're fun to read - and, yes, fun to write.
Once a novel gets going and I know it is viable, I don't then worry about plot or themes. These things will come in almost automatically because the characters are now pulling the story.
Nigeria has had a complicated colonial history. My work has examined that part of our story extensively.
In fact, I thought that Christianity was very a good and a very valuable thing for us. But after a while, I began to feel that the story that I was told about this religion wasn't perhaps completely whole, that something was left out.
It's hard to tell the story if you're not involved yourself, emotionally.
My favorite writer is Alice Munro. It's simply amazing how well she captures entire lifetimes in a single short story.
Non-fiction, and in particular the literary memoir, the stylised recollection of personal experience, is often as much about character and story and emotion as fiction is.
I think original voices get noticed. But most importantly, I think you should have a story to tell.
It's not so much that I got that idea at some point, it came up naturally because of the improvisational nature of the story I was telling.
The whole schizophrenia angle interested me. When I first started working on it, I thought I would play up that angle more than I ended up doing. The religious aspect of the story was also a draw.
With each of those projects I wasn't thinking about how the layout would really affect the story I was working on - it wasn't the content that was affecting the layout, it was, how I wanted to draw at that point in time.
You kind of hope that the events themselves are interesting. I think that's what you have to hope for, that on a broad level it's an interesting story.
That's the thing about TV: it gives you so much time to tell your story; it's comparable to comics.
You have to tell a super story that has some fantastical element, but the human element is what's going to keep people watching.
With 'Luke Cage,' we all, as a collective wanted to tell the truest story that we could but, at the same time, also be very true to the comic book genre.
I think everyone is introduced to the Peter Pan story when they're very young. Everyone has read the book and watched the Disney film and all that.
Of all the things I've done, the first 'Strongman' story was one of the easiest things to write. It was almost fully formed from the get-go. It's almost a 'Dark Knight Returns' riff, except you have a battle-worn Mexican wrestler instead of Batman.
Music is a lens through which to see who we are. Every phrase of every piece of music is trying to tell a story.
Then I found books that were written much later, as late as 15 years ago. It was very superficial material, but enough to tell me that the genesis of this story was worth exploring.
Bank of America is the story of some of the most ambitious, aggressive bank builders on the face of the planet.
But when I see a story on welfare on television, they only show black people.
When I was in grad school, I wrote one early story that was Vegas, and then I stayed away from it. I was trying to expand and do different things. I knew I would write about it, but I stayed away for as long as I could.
One of the ready advantages of writing a road or quest story is that it mirrors the experience of writing a novel.
It's hard to write a war story without thinking about the 'Iliad.' Because the 'Iliad' knows everything about war.
Depending on the story that you're telling, you can be relatable to everybody or nobody. I try and tell everybody's story.
I don't want to say this in a lame way, but D. Rose is one of my heroes. His whole story and background and what he's done for communities in Chicago is super inspiring.
I believe that India's long-term growth story is strong, and foreign investors are keen to be a part of it.
I feel like I have been able to rewrite my story to some extent. But I feel like there is a lot of work to be done.
I believe that the story is the most important element of any medium whether it's theater, film, TV.
'House of Wax' is a remake, but 'House of Wax' is very different. It's like a background concept, but it's a completely different story.
For me, any story I tackle begins with the human relationships and not the plot.
Comparing Asian writers mainly to other Asian writers implies that we're all telling the same story - a disappointingly reductive view.
The specific story line that people have responded to the most has been the horror of bathing suit shopping.
I really became convinced I wanted to tell the story of the real-life model for the Degas sculpture 'Little Dancer Aged 14,' which was unveiled in 1881, the Belle Epoque.
I always take a story that's kind of out there, like an urban myth. I take some possibility that people imagine, that they are familiar with, and try to turn it into a story.
With the novels, I try to write a few pages a day - it doesn't sound much, but it can be difficult if I'm not sure where the story is going.
Sometimes, you don't realize that something is actually a sidetrack for the story, or it takes the tension out of a scene.
When a movie is being made out of a book, there is a mixed reaction on the part of fans because they are both extremely excited and they are also terrified. 'They are going to take my story, and they are going to mess it up; they are going to ruin it; they're going to do this; they're going to do that.'
I'm always imagining some sort of story behind the song, even the ones I haven't written. I'm actively engaging in playacting.
The first movie was mostly about George and Julia. This one is mostly about me and Catherine and our love story and our whole history. So it's a very different movie.
The theoretical casting part of movies is the funnest part. You really can imagine so many different versions of a story based on who's embodying it.
If you're directing, it doesn't really matter any more if it's going straight to TV - what matters is whether you have the resources to make a story that moves you.
'Jane Eyre' was one of those films that I was familiar with as a kid, and I always enjoyed the story.
Some directors don't get involved in the cinematography and are just about story, but I'm definitely more tactile than that in terms of my involvement in the minutiae.
I didn't plan to write YA - I had a story that simply wasn't working as a straight-up fantasy novel.
If you ask around, it's pretty easy to find someone who has a bank account overdraft horror story to tell.
The need for a detailed, comprehensive examination of the Saturn system became clear during the early 1980s, after the two Voyager spacecraft made flybys of the planet. These celebrated events were the opening acts in the story of humanity's exploration of Saturn.
'Gillespie and I' is a deliciously morbid, almost smutty story, a compendium of inappropriate wants and smarmy desires.
I'm big on story structure. I studied with John Truby, who mapped out story by means of moral wants and needs, and that's what I do. Hey, so does John Irving.
I never believed I could write anything. No way - write a whole story? Figuring out all that plotting and symbolism? How do you foreshadow things?
Write. Write. Write. Learn how to revise. No story is perfect straight from the keyboard.
The most difficult story that I've ever been involved in breaking on any of my shows was 'The Constant' episode of 'Lost,' which was when Desmond was consciousness-traveling.
The wonderful thing about 'Star Trek' is that they're very open to suggestions for scripts and story ideas from the viewers. That's really unique.
It is important for me to tell my story so that others feel comfortable telling theirs.
'Game of Thrones' has multiple story lines, multiple countries, and it's complete fantasy.
90%, 100% are going there to hear the singing. The story is another thing. Nobody's interested in the story. Happiness is happiness.
I wrote my first book at eight, all of four pages. At 10, I did a 40-page story. At 12, I wrote two stage plays.
I personally knew and worked with Sammy Davis, Jr. Sammy hired me to open for him at Caesars Palace in Las Vegas when I was a 19-year-old standup comedian, and that's where my fascination with his incredible story began.
I think, ultimately, the story of Rooster Teeth is going to be one of longevity.
I'm going to retire hopefully like Cary Grant did. I'll be on stage telling a story, everyone's going to applaud and laugh, and then I'll drop like a rock.
I think that most Americans feel that the Indians lost because of fair fights and superior odds and superior weaponry. That's because that's the only side of the story that's been told.
The Barefoot College is supposed to be a sparking off process. People are adopting it and owning it, which is really the story behind the college.
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