Quotes About Story

I think it is nice for people to appreciate a slow-burning, beautiful story that makes you feel good when it is over.

A story never looks as good as when the other fellow buys it.

One of the most interesting female characters I've written about was Meg Riddoch, the lead character in 'The Thompson Gunner'.

I don't know if you'd do a Marvel story on Ferguson, because it trivializes what the real flesh-and-blood people on the ground are doing there. But you can make an allegory and deal with the bigger questions.

There's more fiction in my life than in books, so I don't bother with them.

It can be a fictional character and yet relatable... It always depends on the content of the film and what you are doing.

When I wrote for TV, I was always thinking in terms of character and story. After fifteen years, it became hard-wired in me.

The director could start shooting the fifth scene first. So while giving take for the scene I need to know what I am expected to do in the first four scenes. Sometimes it gets quite confusing and on television you never know when the channel will change the story or dump the character!

There's such a huge diaspora of Filipino workers around the world and I want to help tell their story.

What I do know is that with a celebrity's death comes an avalanche of media, and in that media is most often another death - it takes a life that is filled with complicated talent, hope, success and drive and reduces it to the 'story.'

I have not done any film where my role didn't make sense.

The film industry sees the writer as fungible: The thinking goes, As long as we have Brad Pitt and all this money, we have a great film! No, you need a writer with voice and an engaging story, or what you have is a bomb.

To be home for story time is brilliant. Even if after 14 hours of filming you're exhausted and just want to fall into bed.

It's so hard to put your journey apart from the story line, when you've lived through it yourself or know what's a spoiler and what's not, especially when I wasn't a fan of 'The Witcher' before I started filming.

Filming 'The Drew,' thinking a lot about story arcs and all that stuff, I thought about how my career ended. I decided I wanted to try to rewrite that.

The filmmaker's got to make it his story and the actors have got to make it their story.

I think that when you're making a story... that's based on somebody, the filmmaker has his duty to do his research.

The great composers I worked with along the way, I always felt they were filmmakers more than composers. They would talk about the story rather than the music.

In 'Blood Work,' they made choices I wouldn't have made, but I'm not a filmmaker. I took the money, and they told the story.

I'm a documentary filmmaker, I know what it means to craft a story, especially when you've shot a lot of material.

A novel is both a story and a piece of writing. A movie is a story and a piece of filmmaking.

I never watch the dailies. What I usually do is have a look at the rough or final cut, and I just get something from the story. Sometimes I start composing even before the director has shot anything. The dailies don't help me at all.

There are a lot of laughs in this movie, but it's not just about the laughs. It's really about the story, about a guy who finds his soul and realizes what's truly important.

There is no such thing as a person that nothing has happened to, and each person's story is as different as his fingertips.