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Supporting characters add depth to a story, and great actors leave their imprint with the audience.
All characters come from people I know, but after the initial inspiration, I tend to modify the characters so they fit with the story.
Each of the 'Toy Story's are telling an emotional story, but they're comedic. They're so successful creatively in terms of the stories they're telling. And they're pretty grounded.
I spent 12 years doing different things in film trying to figure out the story I wanted to tell.
For me as a storyteller, I want to follow the characters and the story through what they organically demand.
Whatever story you're telling in Louisiana, the landscape is going to become a character in it.
Alice Munro is a particular kind of short story writer in that she writes long, character-driven short stories.
I wanted to tell a story that interested me as much in the telling as in the watching.
Human experience is infinite. Lives are infinite. Stories are infinite. Just because one story has gravity in it doesn't mean you can't write a different one with gravity in it.
I love trying to forge a contract between creator and audience in which we are able to meet halfway, each injecting a part of our own experiences into a story that's being told.
When readers close the covers on 'Running the Rift,' I want them to understand that it is not a genocide novel but rather a story of hope and rebirth.
I'm a novelist, editor, short story writer. I also teach, and I freelance sometimes as an arts consultant. Most of my books have been published by Warner Books, now known as Grand Central Books.
The writer interweaves a story with his own doubts, questions, and values. That is art.
The story of 'Lalpan Bibi' impressed me and my character also. It has all the ingredients of a great commercial masala movie.
I made the film to bring the story of Islam, the story of 700 million of people, to the West.
Practically every day, there is a story in the newspapers about a new breakthrough drug on Parkinson's.
If you're making a film about a band or a songwriter or whomever, there's a publisher, there's a record label, and there are people who are vested interests in that film. But with back-up singers, because they did stuff for everybody, there's no one party that has any vested interest in seeing the story told.
My mother tells this story that when I first went to school, I thought I was going to help the teachers. I didn't realise I was going to get educated.
It's a different thing to write a love story now than in the time of Jane Austen, Eliot, or Tolstoy. One of the problems is that once divorce is possible, once break-ups are possible, it can all become a little less momentous.
'Casebook' is my attempt at a love story. I had a vision of a difficult love.
In a sense, any story that anyone writes is going to be autobiographical - whether it deals directly with the author's experience or not - because it captures what we're obsessed with while working on that particular piece.
I wondered what would be the most humiliating way possible to be turned into a vampire - a story that a vampire would be embarrassed to share with their vampire buddies over a nice glass of Type O.
This is a story about a man named Eddie and it begins at the end, with Eddie dying in the sun.
It's been exciting to share my story for people to relate to me and reach out.
I always kind of think I don't have a style, just whatever seems to be appropriate for the story.
Once in 1919, when I was traveling at night by train, I wrote a short story. In the town where the train stopped, I took the story to the publisher of the newspaper who published the story.
When you're putting together a concept album, it's all about the flow and the story.
Midnight Mass' is kind of my baby; I've been working on that for six years. I started writing it while 'Oculus' was in preproduction, and it's a very personal, scary little story.
Everyone in America likely has a bullying story, whether as the victim, bully or as a witness.
If I had quietly retired as governor in 2007 and went into banking or something of that nature, I would have been, at most, a footnote in the story and probably never mentioned.
The brain needs to have a story; it needs to have a logical screenplay telling where we're coming from and what we're going to.
If your attention is on superfluous aspects that are not part of the story, then you can't be concentrating on the human realities of the piece.
The Spice Girl Victoria Beckham has just published the story of her life. I confess that it is not in my reading table.
I've wanted to write a ghost story for years, and my main aim was to write the most frightening ghost story that I could think of.
I was just fascinated with how everyone else in the world lived, and I was interested in telling their story.
Few reporters get to do what Kelly McEvers does in every episode of 'Embedded': go deep into a story and tease out what is really happening.
If you do a story about a British journalist rescuing a child from Sarajevo, then Sarajevo just becomes an exotic location, and the story's about this British journalist.
The Snowden story, which won the Guardiana Pulitzer Prize, became the realisation of Rusbridger's dream of a brand-building, left-wing-uniting, global and viral story.
I don't think teams play this game to hurt other guys. I don't think that's the story. We don't play this game to hurt one another.
I'm doing a record that has a story that runs through all of the songs, and then there is also a film that goes along with it.
I tend not to know what the plot is or the story is or even the theme. Those things come later, for me.
It's a responsibility of the writer to get the reader out of the story somehow.
Once I've discovered the story, I might restructure it, maybe move things around, set up a clue that something is going to happen later, but that happens much later in an editorial capacity.
I don't have a plan for a story when I sit down to write. I would get quite bored carrying it out.
So be it. God created profoundly fallible creatures on this earth, and human history is mostly the story of error and accident.
Once we truly grasp the message of the 'New Testament', it is impossible to read the 'Old Testament' again without seeing Christ on every page, in every story, foreshadowed or anticipated in every event and narrative.
If the history of the western moral imagination is the story of an enduring and unending revolt against human cruelty, there are few more consequential figures than Raphael Lemkin - and few whose achievements have been more ignored by the general public. It was he who coined the word 'genocide.' He was also its victim.
It's harder to write a story with just two people in a room than with 50 characters.
By the second sentence of a pitch, the entirety of the story should be explained.
Who can't relate to a story of a dreamer who, against all odds, is going to make something of himself that is completely unexpected?
I am guaranteeing you that if you see my byline on a story, it's going to be the cleanest story you've ever read.
'Social Network' is a good story with human experience connective tissue that makes it ageless.
I was going to get the Carolyn Bessette story out of her one way or another.
In terms of writing characters or stories, at least initially, there's no difference between live-action and animation. A good story is a good story, whatever the medium.
I can write two scripts concurrently, but I usually prefer to do one at a time. However, I also usually have 5 or 6 story ideas that are percolating in my head at any one time, so it can get a little crowded in there.
Living out a story eight times a week is difficult and draining emotionally but very fulfilling.
I always choose my movie because of a director and a story and a, a character.
When I'm done with my last album, I want to make a movie with Tim Burton telling the story of all of the albums connected. That's my biggest dream.
I think any story line that involves a relationship is going to be interesting.
I come from the theater. Nothing is as difficult as working eight shows a week. Period. End of story.
Usually writer's block arises when something is wrong internally with the story.
One of the things that I have my students do is to take a look at English-language newspapers from all around the world in order to see the different ways in which the same story might be told.
And it's interesting, but I'm always interested in the story behind the story.
The difference between mad people and sane people... is that sane people have variety when they talk-story. Mad people have only one story that they talk over and over.
Everybody's in a situation; everybody has a story. It's about finding out why.
I began to pick apart our knowledge of Frankenstein and discovered that the public's idea of this myth comes from a million different places... I became committed to recontextualizing it all so it all worked in one story.
Having worked with Sarah Paulson on 'American Horror Story: Hotel' and seeing the lengths she goes to when shooting a scene, you go, 'Oh, so that's what this is going to be like.'
Once you become the story off-screen, you are less likely to be the onscreen one.
If I thought there was any hope of turning 'World War Z' into a movie, I wouldn't have written it as a giant, epic, global story, because that requires a giant, epic, global budget.
If I'm stuck in the midst of a story, I take a nap. It often works, and if it doesn't, I still feel better.
I find that most novels are not good all the way through. A story can be good all the way through, every sentence.
I let my game do the talking. I've had incidents like that but when I compare my own story to the stories that have happened forty or fifty years ago particularly to Jackie Robinson for example.
'The New Jedi Order' was a pure publishing project: a single massive story - virtually one huge novel spread across multiple volumes - told by a succession of authors.
It'd be impossible to capture the feel of 'All Quiet on the Western Front' in a novel starring Mace Windu; 'All Quiet' is a tragic coming-of-age story.
I prefer ensemble casts, but with games like 'Resident Evil 6,' where there's just so much dialogue and recording mo-cap, or with 'Resident Evil: Damnation,' where the story pace is already set by a previous set of mo-cap actors, it makes more sense to do it individually.
Films have become shorter in length, jumpier in style, and simpler in story so that they can be more easily transferred to once under-exploited international markets.
The problem with the stigma around mental health is really about the stories that we tell ourselves as a society. What is normal? That's just a story that we tell ourselves.
I almost obsessively began reading about what was happening with the so-called Islamic State. But I couldn't find an angle on the story.
My dad sent me a clipping about the self-defence militias in Mexico. Immediately, when I read it, I knew I wanted to create a parallel story about vigilantes on both sides of the border.
If they're going to write a story they're going to write the story whether it's true or not.
The story of my holiday decorating is if Ralph Lauren was trapped in a 1950s Woolworth, this is what it would look like.
I can't think of a major story that we have broken that was incorrect. But we have had to correct some things that were false; we have had to retract things.
In a lot of cases, as in Tom and Nicole's case, the tabloids were about to break the story, so they said just let the news out. And they called organizations such as ours.
Many have been with the show for years, and they have sources in the business, so we do know things, but until it is verified, we don't run with the story.
So as the years draw on toward the Biblical limit, the inclination to look back, and to tell some sort of story of what one has seen, grows upon most of us.
If it's a modern-day story dealing with certain ethnic groups, I think I could open up certain scenes for improvisation, while staying within the structure of the script.
A lot of banging in the head has built up over the decades, and for my own sanity, I needed to write. I wanted to see if I could tell an honest, organic story about characters that interest me.
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