Quotes About Setting

Tenements were a screenwriter's dream—lively, interesting places that lent themselves to narrative.

Britain proves to be an ideal setting for many a medieval-minded crime novelist, regardless of century.

The futuristic city on 'Legends Walking's cover rejects any connection with the contemporary setting of 'Changer.' It was as if every effort was made to keep readers of 'Changer' from finding this stand-alone sequel.

San Francisco is a breathtakingly beautiful city, with lots of great contrasts between dark and light, often overlapping each other. It's a great setting for a horror story.

A really good horror film has a story.

I grew up in Houston, in a pretty urbane setting.

its contemporary metropolitan setting, its self-conscious 'coolness', its underlying preoccupation with the surface appearance of things and an accompanying cynicism and bleakness as audiences witnessed the machinations of its characters. Yet

Let us be about setting high standards for life, love, creativity, and wisdom. If our expectations in these areas are low, we are not likely to experience wellness. Setting high standards makes every day and every decade worth looking forward to.

I almost always start with setting! I have to know the world before I know how to populate it. I have a tendency to play with doors - between life and death, human and monster, mundane and magic - and with 'ADSOM,' I knew I wanted to play with the physical doors between worlds.

Shyness is about the fear of social judgments - at a job interview or a party you might be excessively worried about what people think of you. Whereas an introvert might not feel any of those things at all, they simply have the preference to be in a quieter setting.

I've always set my stories in places I know well. It frees me up to spend more imaginative time on the characters if I'm not worrying about the logistics.

A dinosaur out of context is like a character without a story. Worse than that, the character suffers from amnesia.

All you can really do as director is sort of set a tone.

Beyonce has set the tone as an aunt. I've set the tone as a mom.

'Seize the Story' takes readers all the way through the process of writing fiction, from beginning to end. Every element, from dialogue to setting, plotting to character creation, is laid out and illustrated with examples. But the tone of the book is not that of a dry writing manual - it's definitely written for teenagers.

I've been on shows where they're just setting it up, and they're trying to find the tone of the writing and performance. That's always a really chaotic period on shows.

I had great difficulty in school interacting with others, and I took refuge in the contrived setting of play acting, which is what I still do.

Good buildings make and are made by their settings, and they are appropriately different in different locations. Climate, culture, topography and materials have helped create regional architectural languages that seem curiously right for their locations and for all times.

If we were sticking to our convictions as a Party about what we believe to be in the best interests of our country, we wouldn't be man-marking the Tories, keeping one step from their position; we'd be making the running and setting the agenda.

In the entertainment industry, especially, is a total different environment then working in a corporate setting.

Like the vacationer who returns to a beloved summer house year after year, the addicted reader opens book three or four or eleven in a given series and is thoroughly at home in the locale—its by now familiar native characters, the verbal shrubbery and the narrative floorboards that occasionally creak.

Well, I have an idea, usually a visual image of some sort. A setting. A particular, I don't know, urban scene, a particular time of day. Something that grips my imagination for some reason.

I'm thinking of remaking 'Psycho' again. Doing a third remake. The idea this time is to really change it - we're talking about doing a punk rocker setting.

there's always something there, if one can find the treatment. The same old material, the same old line, the same old setting – all that counts is the quality of the mind that processes them.