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Each story we approach in the same way, with curiosity and interest and determination to get behind the image.
I'm not a purist - I like films that are narrated and films that aren't, films that are beautiful and films that are clumsy but heartfelt. Mostly, I just like a good story and good characters.
The main gripe I have with Snapchat is as a content creator, which I understand is not the normal perspective… How is anyone ever going to find my Snapchat Story if they don't have my username or my number?
I'm not one of these 'the characters write themselves; the story just fell out of me' kind of writers. Wish it was like that.
Anyone can write a detective story about a detective who fails, for Pete's sake. That's pretty unambitious.
I wanted to portray very, very dark subject matter and a deceptively complex story in the brightest colours and simplest lines possible to leave the readers reeling.
When I was a kid, the book that I liked the most was 'Aesop's Fables.' There was a version of it that my father read stories to us kids out of. I liked the idea of the short story format.
I think I'm a bit like Ishmael in 'Moby Dick': a story teller and an observer in his own crisis.
I would only tell a story if I was being mercilessly heckled. That's the only time I would talk to the audience.
I knew there was a story; once you find a dog with a fork through it, you know there's a story there.
I love seeing a story evolve over several books and watching characters develop.
I like working in any medium. Who's making it? How much do I like the story? Does it contribute something?
The deadlines are much, much longer with books. When I was a reporter, a lot of times I'd come in at 8:30 a.m., get an assignment right away, interview somebody, turn the story in by 9:30, and have the finished story in the paper that landed on my desk by noon.
We know so much about the European food story, and we're getting to know about the American food story; but we know so little about the African food story.
The thing that struck me most after first viewing 'The Sessions' was the charm of Mark O'Brien and the intimacy that the director, Ben Lewin, manages to capture perfectly on screen. I did not feel forced or cajoled in any way into believing the story.
B.I.G. was like the Alfred Hitchcock of rap. Like, this dude's story form was so nuts.
The story of Warner Brothers' movie, 'Mildred Pierce,' recounts the enormous and unrewarded sacrifices that a mother (Joan Crawford) makes for her spoiled, greedy daughter (Ann Blythe).
What I'm trying to do is to write a story. If you take something from it, that's wonderful; if you don't, that's wonderful as well.
Yes, it is true that I wanted to direct Rajinikanth in 'Bhoothakkannadi,' and I even narrated the story to him. But the project never materialised.
Fred Bumaye shows great promise as a young filmmaker with a passion for story and the cinematic language.
'Brahmotsavam' is a love story set in a family backdrop... It's all about relationships people have on different levels.
I enjoy heroines who grow and come into their own during the course of a story.
The hardest thing about writing a script is you finish it, but it doesn't mean anything. It's not like a novel or short story - a script is meant to be made into a movie.
I met people through Twitter whom I wouldn't have otherwise. Readers sent me story tips over direct message. Many pointed out errors, but most did it respectfully, and I was appreciative.
Any story about a powerful woman owning herself in any way is automatically deemed feminist.
What I often do when I'm writing, if I can't find that story, I go out and I hunt for it.
I'm not constrained by being a genre writer. Any story I can imagine, I can cast as a fantasy novel and probably get it published.
A good short-story writer has an instinct for sketching in just enough background to ground the specific story.
Setting is the bedrock of your story. If you choose a real-world backdrop, be certain you get your facts straight.
The story of 'Lasers' is my story. I didn't have to look too far to get subject matter for this record; it was stuff that was happening to me.
In choosing any role, I ask the same questions: what kind of part is it? is the role challenging? does the director have a vision? is the story moving? etc.
It's the most absurd story. I grew up in the dirt streets of Tijuana, dying of all kinds of diseases - tuberculosis, fevers, all that - and it somehow turned into this charmed life. I don't know exactly how.
If you're a film composer, you have the music tell the story of the character.
I said all along I would not sell my story. I don't think it would be right.
I bought a selection of short, romantic fiction novels, studied them, decided that I had found a formula and then wrote a book that I figured was the perfect story. Thank goodness it was rejected.
I didn't become a good writer until I learned how to rewrite. And I don't just mean fixing spelling and adding a comma. I rewrite each of my books five or six times, and each time I change huge portions of the story.
Funnily enough, the most danger I felt was when I did a story about exotic animals kept as pets in America.
When you are working on a script, the story itself is not difficult. You say this would happen and then this, resulting perhaps in this. And the dialogue you make as true as you can.
An author's life is different, complex, and ongoing, while a character's remains frozen in one little story.
A story is a kind of biopsy of human life. A story is both local, specific, small, and deep, in a kind of penetrating, layered, and revealing way.
I realized that one of the differences between news photography and dance photography was that the former has to tell a specific story, whereas all a dance photograph had to be was visually interesting.
I love songs that create moments that are very personal and that tell a story.
I just got my work visa to shoot 'American Horror Story,' and my official status is 'alien with extraordinary abilities.'
'Save the Date' feels like a quiet story about two sisters and the men in their lives, kind of reminiscent of the quieter rom-coms of the 1990s; it's very character-driven and not as wedding-focused.
Everyone wants to talk about terrible breakups. Breakups are horrible, they're relatable, and people do them badly. Everyone has a story of a terrible breakup.
Anytime you're telling a story about monsterhood, you're playing around with ideas about otherness and alienation.
I always loved having the chance to disappear in a story. I always was kind of obsessed with that.
I like terrific writing, but I also like a terrific story. My favorite books have both, and they're by contemporary, commercial American writers.
My mother's childhood was complex, disjointed, and disturbing. As children, we would gather round and ask her to tell us again and again The Story of Her Childhood. It was Grimmsian, Andersenesque: a classic fairy tale replete with goodies and baddies.
I would never, for the sake of the story or a twist, have a character do something that they just wouldn't do. I really couldn't. I'd rather miss out on the twist.
I believe people have the right to tell their own story as honestly and accurately as they can.
This sounds geeky, but when I run, I like to listen to musicals like 'Les Miserables.' The soundtracks are 75 minutes or longer, and I keep going until the story ends, so it feels like a good workout.
I loved working on 'Dogfight,' but when I first read it and wrapped my head around the story, I was a little horrified.
We have to tell our story at 'Ebony' and 'Jet' like no one else can. We have the authenticity; we have the believability. And I think that's what we have to own.
It was acting, and WWE is the longest-running weekly episodic program in television. Sure, there are story lines that are better than others.
I just kind of do my thing with sort of tunnel vision for the story and my role and how it fits together.
Entertainment is a great form of being able to tell a story and to spread a message.
I started seeing how I wanted my story to be told. Going to jail is one of the best things that happened to me. It helped me get my mind right.
Honestly, my goal is just to let people hear my story and just like, feed everybody that could relate to my story in any way.
I tried softball and soccer. I just didn't take as much of a liking to it as I did sitting in a movie theater and watching people recreate a story, and doing it myself, as well.
Young actors often ask me how do you get an agent, how do you get started, how do you get to audition, and I don't know what to tell them because my story is so fluky.
Swimming has been a very effective medium for telling a story about the state of our planet.
You have to go where the story is to report on it. As a journalist, you're essentially running to things that other people are running away from.
I think the greatest thing about making a documentary is your ability to just follow the story and the subject.
The story of getting better can be just as compelling as the story of falling apart.
When you're a writer and something difficult happens to you, one of the things involved in that is this emergence of narrative potential. And there's then a kind of self-consciousness about telling a story in which you suffered.
It's not just that everyone has a story. It's that everyone has a thousand stories. Everyone is infinite.
I don't ever want to impose something on the story. I want the story to tell me.
The story grew, got way bigger than the contest rules called for, and next thing I knew I had a book.
Incorruptibility by money is the old story... Now it's incorruptibility by media.
Obviously because of my personal connection to Mandela and having had his story as part of my childhood, I knew how awesome he was.
No one touches me when I write my story, unless I hire you to or I allow you to.
If a story isn't working, I'm simply unable to finish it. That's what usually tells me something is wrong.
It's all about who's where on the food chain. When I'm the story editor, I expect my writers to follow my vision. When I'm working for another editor, I'm obliged to follow their vision.
What makes a story is how well it manages to connect with the reader, the visceral effect it has.
For 'Toy Story 3' to be recognized by the Academy as not only one of the best animated films of the year, but also as one of the 10 best pictures of the year, is both humbling and overwhelming.
The only reason we made 'Toy Story 2' is that we happened to come up with a storyline that was really good. It wasn't driven by wanting to make a sequel.
Initially, when people asked us when 'Toy Story 2' was going to come out, we'd say, 'We have no interest in sequels. We just want to do original stories.'
In the earliest days of Pixar, when we were making 'Toy Story' and 'A Bug's Life,' we all came together as a group.
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