Quotes About Story

I think I have a job, which is to present a character in a story and entertain you and divert you with my work - that's it.

It is up to the directors to take risks in telling a story and if they want to experiment, they should work with the right kind of people.

It's about story; it is a social experiment, and people take that into account when they're watching 'Big Brother.'

For me, a story always goes out of a mistake. Somebody makes a mistake, and that becomes the story. Probably that explains why my series are kind of dark: because there's a problem to begin with.

Usually, in theatre, you're adapting existing material or creating an entirely new play. With the 'Cursed Child,' we have been given the unique opportunity to explore some of the most cherished books and beloved characters ever written, yet work with J. K. Rowling to tell a story from that world that no one yet knows - it's exhilarating.

What I've found is if you get the right characters in the right story and put them in the right setting - and let them go - they tend to do all the exploring of the issues for you. Because people are interesting and political and funny and sad.

Writing 'when you find me,' it really exposed me to a way of putting together a story I hadn't thought of.

When I do a movie, I have the script. I know how it begins and how it ends. I know what my character does and where he's going. If I have ideas I want to express or changes I want to make, there's one guy: the director. It's different in television.

Music is an expression of life, who you are, and what you've been through.

Though my parents have seen me in all possible avatars, my extended family has been pretty excited since the time they've gotten to know that 'Manmarziyaan' is a story based in Amritsar.

Sometimes I'm more inspired by stuff that tells a story and less inspired by stuff that's not a natural extension of what I'm already doing.

I'm not someone who is driven by big external stories. I like big emotional stories.

I know my life story sounds too extraordinary to be true.

I would like to point to the extraordinary lengths the mainstream media will go to maintain a sensationalist story.

I can't see any reason why a dramatic story can't be in 3-D. I think 'Lawrence of Arabia' would have been fabulous in 3-D.

There are many young and new directors, who have fabulous concepts and story ideas, and this is why I do their films. And the bottom line is, when I was a newcomer, someone gave me a chance too.

Faces are the ledgers of our experience.

The emotions of the actors are better when they understand the chronological factors that are adding to the story.

As an actor, there are many confusing factors that can make you take or not take a decision. It becomes difficult. Your first and last checkpoint should be the story. I always read a script as an audience.

I never choose films because of its starcast - the director and the story are the most important factors for me.

Anyone can write a detective story about a detective who fails, for Pete's sake. That's pretty unambitious.

There's probably one more story about Bosnia that I'd like to do, because I spent a fair amount of time on the Serb side of the lines, which isn't apparent in the other books.

In any adaptation, the challenge is to take the essence of the original source of the material, be faithful to it to a point, but to also recognize that you're telling a story in a very different medium. It has to exist on its own, and it has to offer something unique to that experience.

You can fake a lot of stuff, but you can't fake if the story isn't there and if the writing isn't good.