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People loved the first two 'Toy Story' films so much, and the last thing I wanted to do was make a disappointing third film.
The story of the week is you have got to putt well to win the Masters and I haven't putted well.
It's one of the things I love about my job: it's my job to help a director tell the story, to just be willing to help.
I did my very first film with Kirk in Detective Story when he was the greatest, greatest star in the world. I fell in love with him, had a crush on him then.
Here in South Korea, I'm continuing to learn English in order to boost my prospects. When North Korean defectors try to get a job to stabilize their lives, their lack of English is a handicap. It was the same story while I was living in China. It took an enormous amount of time and enthusiasm to learn Chinese.
America has this fascination with glorifying the villain and not talking about the trials and tribulations. We tell the story of the successful villain a lot of times, but we don't tell the story of the people who don't come out so successful, and we don't tell the story of all the bystanders of that choice.
I have the 'thing' worked out - the trick or the surprise or the pivotal fact. Then I just start somewhere and let the story work itself out.
It's the story of an American who wants to become a dictator and goes to Europe with a sidekick to interview various Fascists to find out how the Nazis and Mussolini got into power.
My research process doesn't vary much. I do a little reading to establish a timeline and decide how I'm going to approach the story.
That last winter was a tragic story and I got no personal honour out of it but I was a witness to it.
At 18, my first short story was published - I was paid a penny a word by a science fiction magazine. I continued to write, and five years later I published my first novel, 'Sweetwater.'
I don't shy from controversy. I'm telling stories, and I'll tell whatever story seems like it wants to be told.
I think audiences are really savvy and know when we're doing stuff to just shock them versus do stuff that really drives the story.
When I am writing anything in general, I just want to tell the story that exists in my head; I don't try to write a parable or make a point.
The short story has been here and is here and will be here as long as we are.
Honestly, I expected to get a cold reception because of my subject matter. But when editors took a look at the story I had to tell, and saw that this was not a parochial story at all, they really warmed to it.
But with nonfiction, the task is very straightforward: Do the research, tell the story.
We try to be driven by what's a good story, what's truthful, and the drama of what happens next.
I didn't really understand what you did when you went in front of the camera. And then suddenly I just understood it. When you're in a play, you carry the story, but you don't have to do that in film.
Members of the Academy are mostly urban people. We are an urban nation. We are not a rural nation. It's not easy even to get a rural story made.
I approach film no differently than I approach a role. I want to make sure the movie is right, the characters are right, I can really bring something to it as a visionary, a storyteller. It's great to point a camera, but can you tell a story?
I do watch 'Revenge,' 'American Horror Story' and 'Game of Thrones.' I am behind on all of them. But I do watch them. Those are my go-to shows.
With 'To All the Boys,' it's not an Asian rom-com. We tried to tell the coming-of-age story of a 16-year-old girl who just happens to be Asian.
For years, I have been inspired by the inventive and masterful storytelling of the 'SAO' franchise. I'm thrilled to get the opportunity to work with such talented partners to bring this cutting-edge yet timeless story to a new format at Skydance.
Sometimes I realize halfway through a story, I'm like, 'Why would anyone care about this? It's uninteresting.'
People don't come to the theatres to watch a kiss. It's the story that appeals to them.
'Letters From Home' is a story inspired by my grandparents' epistolary courtship.
'Letters From Home' is a 90,000-word WWII love story with a twist, aptly summarized as 'The Notebook' meets 'Saving Private Ryan.'
Only thanks to blissful ignorance, and the inspiration of my grandparents' story, did I actually believe tackling a novel would be an easy task. I've since learned otherwise.
My kids don't listen to me when I preach at them. But if I tell them a story they can pull something from, that matters.
My girl crush is Dolly Parton. I've never met her, but I keep wanting to run into her in a grocery story or something!
I'm someone who has a singular goal in making films: I want to tell a story. There are certain stories that I want to tell.
Well, anything can happen and it happened to me. I learned everybody has a story.
For kids growing up now, there's no difference watching 'Avatar' on an iPad or watching YouTube on TV or watching 'Game of Thrones' on their computer. It's all content. It's just story.
We want to open digg up to just about anyone and everyone that wants to express their interest in any type of news story or Web content.
We wanted to write the first prequels as a story that anyone could pick up.
I'm always excited to carry more and more weight and responsibility within a story.
I like directing. It takes a lot out of you, but I'd like to do it again - I just have to find a story I want to tell.
I can tell you that I never begin working on a story until I have a title centered at the top of the first page.
'Entourage' is almost required watching in L.A., and everyone seems to have story suggestions for the show itself, which is amazing because it makes you realize the show's really struck a chord and found its audience.
I'm obviously interested in playing characters who have autonomy, who drive the story.
I know as a consumer I want a story. I want a defining - I don't want just an album full of singles. I want to get to know the artist beyond what everyone else can hear on the radio.
If LGBT people can identify with our story, if they think, 'The Golden Lovers are my team,' I'm good with that.
Our own genomes carry the story of evolution, written in DNA, the language of molecular genetics, and the narrative is unmistakable.
Evolution isn't just a take-it-or-leave-it story about where we came from. It's an epic at the centre of life itself. It tells us we are part of nature in every respect.
So many of the great thought leaders that have shaped economics - Gary Becker, Milton Friedman - what an unbelievable success story they've had in their field.
In first grade, I told my friends I had a third story in my house filled with jewels and lions.
Each director is different. Clint Eastwood and Chris Nolan are completely different, and I need to adjust to the story and character and the director and just my duty as an actor.
I wake up with the story in my head, so I really like to be at my desk about five minutes after I wake up. So I don't get dressed. I put on a bathrobe, I make tea and sit at my desk.
Like all bands, the first two albums are always the ones most written about, and the most covered. When a band gets to their third of fourth album, the story of the band has already been told.
Every good story is about who we are and our struggle to define ourselves.
Every animated film that I've worked on - whether it was as a story artist or as Head of Story or even as director - where we originally started out with our story and where we eventually ended up were often very different places.
Star-crossed lovers who have a destiny that isn't necessarily going to work in their favor - that's a universal story; that's an archetypal story.
When I reach out to people to ask them to be involved in anything I shoot, I want them to want to share their story.
Everybody's got a different way of telling a story - and has different stories to tell.
I grew up in this weird, educationally elite but economically impoverished environment. Total 'Oprah' story.
I don't think I was anything short of ecstatic when I found out 'It's Kind of a Funny Story' would be premiering in Toronto.
What is so beautiful about a composer and a lyricist is that their job is to push a story along and not halt it.
My parents covered police pursuits, and it was, in many ways, the beginnings of reality show TV in this captivating story that was a lot of flash but not all that much substance.
I've had such an incredible arc, so it made sense to me, creatively, that we've told Laurel's story. It has come to an end in the 'Arrow'-verse.
On the one hand I wonder, Was this really my story to tell? On the other hand, I just wanted the story to be told. But the truth is that I didn't think anybody was going to read it.
In terms of 'Ray Donovan,' the story is so rich, the actors are so fantastic, the writing is impeccable. And it's such beautiful storytelling with complex characters.
I've had a fantastic time at 'Coronation Street,' and I'm chuffed at the reaction to Becky. It's been this lovely redemption story, and I think that's what the viewers have enjoyed about it.
My job is to get to the heart of a story, to find out what's really going on; to get it verified and, then, to get it out to as many people as possible as fast as.
I roughly draw the scene beforehand to be more confident on the set. Instead of talking and explaining certain things, I try to visually communicate the scene to my team with the story board. This is how I work.
I could type in a closet and be fine. It's just a matter of cocooning myself. Just me and the story.
I love 'The Guardian' series. Bianca St. Ives is one of my favorite heroines ever, and the combination of action, suspense, and romance makes her story pure fun to write.
Octavia Butler was more interested in writing a good story than in worrying about where to slot it.
I write about the trials and triumphs of contemporary life - and often the readers see themselves between the lines of the story.
The word inventors have to create a new term to describe how I felt when I learned that 'Refund' was on the shortlist for the Frank O'Connor International Story prize - Excited, thrilled, honored, none of them quite do it.
All sorrows can be borne if you put them into a story or tell a story about them.
Of, course it always cheers a news editor when a story has what we describe as 'legs' therefore it, erm, runs.
It just didn't seem to fit the story and lineage, I guess. So I just sort of surrounded 'Blood Bank' with three other songs that were very different from one other, and they all kind of came together as a palette cleanser for the last record. And I'm really excited about it.
I'd said no to directing 'Snowtown' a few times and was quite scared of it, but I saw a story there that was worth telling.
The goal for us to do with Squanchtendo is to approach all of our projects with a goal of adding interesting characters, personality, and a story to interact with in-game. Every game we make will be built from the ground up for whatever hardware it will launch on.
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