Quotes About Story

Whenever I come back to Marvel, it's to do a Thanos story for one reason or another.

Of course, I want to look the best I can, but I am playing characters that should match my age, and the women and the material that I am interested in are usually going through something. I have to be able to live in my face and tell the story of the character I've taken on.

When people ask me what makes movies great, it's the material.

I'm much more interested in allowing a story to happen, and people find whatever meaning is in there.

For me, a story has to have characters, and my role should be meaningful. At the end of the day, people should say that they like my performance.

It's very difficult to be asking other people for opportunities. It is much more empowering to be creating opportunities, to be the one who is saying, 'Look, I'm going to take this from the ground up and create a story that is meaningful to me as an Asian American and cast it with Asian Americans and have Asian Americans writing it.'

No film should be meaningless.

I find I have to respond to a character or a story to choose a job.

I have always gone with the story which I liked at that point of time and when I retire my filmography will be interesting.

I'm interested in telling a story about a gay man and what he's going through as an artist and as a lonely, single gay man. I want to reveal what I know about loneliness.

I wouldn't do a project if it weren't a story I wanted to tell. That's rewarding in itself, as a writer, if you're working on a story that you enjoy telling.

I've often made revisions at that stage that turned out to be mistakes because I wasn't really in the rhythm of the story anymore. I see a little bit of writing that doesn't seem to be doing as much work as it should be doing, and right at the end, I will sort of rev it up. But when I finally read the story again, it seems a bit obtrusive.

Never use dogs to symbolize anything. That is ridiculous. Always ensure that any dogs are just dogs; i.e., characters in the story who happen to be dogs.

When I started thinking about 'Mr. Robot,' I thought about it as a movie, and I thought about the complete arc, and that is the one story I'm going to tell.

I share my story to help other people. I know people need someone to be a role model and help them along the way.

You can't make an action movie without action, and so, you can't make a romance movie without romance.

It doesn't matter which genre you're working in, you try to find an honest relationship within that space, and say if it's the romance genre, within that you have to find a story and characters that resonate with an audience.

That was all Rose, and Rose knew what she was doing. Her main thing was story.

Bimal Roy never kept comedy out of the story line.

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.

'SI' came to me and said, 'We want you to do a story on Russell as the greatest team player,' which I certainly agreed with.

Behind every crime is a story of sadness.

The Ancient Mariner would not have taken so well if it had been called The Old Sailor.

We are actors. We can adapt to any different look for the sake of the story and the character.