I always think if it's a good story, the audience can't wait to run out of the theater and go tweet somebody with the gist of a story, in a nutshell, almost, because it was that interesting.
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Related I have no problems with remakes, and I think it's interesting. I mean, coming from the theater, ... BALTASAR KORMAKUR Much of the time in the writer's room is spent working on story, and I was always challenging my... MARIA SEMPLE you have to be the prude or the slut, and if you pick one, other people hate you for it, and you can... NED VIZZINI When you're a storyteller, part of the process of storytelling is the kind of communion you form... CARLTON CUSE I'm conflicted with theater in the city because you want to reach a diverse audience, and that a... ADAM DRIVER I think the reason 'Sexy Beast' was so good was it wasn't just another run-of-the-mill g... IAN MCSHANE I don't have a favorite genre. I love to work and live vicariously through every character. It... CATHERINE MARY STEWART You must save what you can of your life; you musn't lose it all simply because you've lost a part. HENRY JAMES I had written a story. I wrote the story out of some desperation, really, and I didn't know I wa... DEBORAH EISENBERG I'd love to do another 'Indiana Jones.' A character that has a history and a potential, ... HARRISON FORD Theater is where you go to find out something new that you don't know. It goes through somebody&... D. A. PENNEBAKER There's a misunderstanding that I've always tried to address straight on when this question ... MARC LAIDLAW I think women's wrestling has had a hard time because of GLOW. When GLOW came out, it looked lik... BOBBY HEENAN I started a novel back in high school. It wasn't very good. It was the opposite of good. The wri... PATRICK ROTHFUSS I would like, if I can, to broaden the possibilities of the musical theater. I think there's a b... RICHARD RODGERS What's the good of Twitter if you can't tweet cute... Twitter's so silly. I tweet about ... ALEXANDRA DADDARIO I think that 'Heroes' really is about family. I mean, sure, it's this surreal story, and... DANA DAVIS I didn't know 'Homeland' was going to be 'Homeland.' I just did it because it wa... DAMIAN LEWIS If you have to tell a story without speaking, it's sort of like - I come from a dance background... SAMI GAYLE But here's my point to the LA Times. If you had a serious story to run, if you thought there was... SUSAN ESTRICH The story was such that I couldn't make a graceful ending and then make a graceful new beginning... JACK VANCE I wouldn't go out of my way to experience the indignity of middle-age just because it might be g... RODDY DOYLE It's much easier to make a movie with kind of stylistic pyrotechnics because you can hide behind... JAMES GRAY I can't wait to meet Steven Spielberg or Al Pacino again so I can say, 'I have to tell you h... JIM RASH Are you taking us to the beach?" - Dan Cahill JUDE WATSON But, you know there's a lot of westerns - not that they were bad - it's just that they can b... TOM SELLECK She wasn't bitter. She was sad, though. But it was a hopeful kind of sad. The kind of sad that just ... STEPHEN CHBOSKY So, I guess we are who we are for alot of reasons. And maybe we'll never know most of them. But even... STEPHEN CHBOSKY I love my mom so much. I don't care if that's corny to say. I think on my next birthday, I'm going t... STEPHEN CHBOSKY We Are All Infinite STEPHEN CHBOSKY (All the grief she had suffered over her lifetime had moulded her face into a mask of eternal sadnes... JEAN SASSON You can't just sit there and put everyone's lives ahead of yours and think that counts as love. You ... STEPHEN CHBOSKY I saw other people there. Old men sitting alone. Young girls with blue eye shadow and awkward jaws. ... STEPHEN CHBOSKY That one moment when you know you are not a sad story. You are ALIVE. STEPHAN CHBOSKY Somos quienes somos por un montón de razones.Quizás nunca conozcamos la mayoría de ellas.Pero aun... STEPHEN CHBOSKY Ambos dijeron que tomara asiento y parecían hablar en serio, así que me senté. STEPHEN CHBOSKY I know these will all be stories some day, and our pictures will become old photographs. We all beco... STEPHEN CHBOSKY So I guess we are who we are for a lot of reasons. And maybewe'll never know most of them. STEPHEN CHBOSKY So I guess we are who we are for a lot of reasons. And maybe we'll never know most of them. STEPHEN CHBOSKY There's nothing like the deep breathes after laughing that hard. Nothing in the world like a sore st... STHEPHEN CHBOSKY no more pencils, no more books, no more teachers' dirty looks, when the teacher rings the bell, drop... STEPHEN CHBOSKY I don't know the significance of this, but I find it very interesting. STEPHEN CHBOSKY Maybe it’s sad that these are now memories. And maybe it’s not sad. STEPHEN CHBOSKY What is the Other?" they ask. The Other is the one who taught me whatI should be like, but not ... PAULO COELHO If you have a beautiful story, it has to have conflict. If you don't have conflict, it can't... DONALD MILLER I think we've broken story after story that the rest of the media refused to break even when the... DAVID TALBOT That's what was so amazing about 'Mulan.' Here is this story with all Chinese characters... MING-NA WEN As far as I'm concerned, an audience is an audience. Whether it's an audience in Hull or the... SYLVESTER MCCOY It's not an epitaph. I felt I could look back at my life and get a good story out of it. It'... ALAN ALDA I think a good story's a good story and a good character's a good character. MICHAEL SHEEN I don't want to go slumming in somebody else's pain just to write a book. I want to go into ... PATRICIA MCCORMICK The trick to making a story matter is that every now and then, somebody you care about has to go. If... DAVID SIMON The short story can't really hold an interesting event. It can't hold a death or a war or a ... ETHAN CANIN If I get lucky and I can choose, I would always choose a really good story and screenplay, even if I... AYELET ZURER I don't think I was anything short of ecstatic when I found out 'It's Kind of a Funny St... KEIR GILCHRIST Obviously sex and nudity sells, but that's what people go to cable for but that's not going ... JACK WAGNER Empathy is the new measurement of everything. It doesn't matter what religion you have, what God you... C. JOYBELL C. I can go to a movie theater and watch a movie I was in with an audience... but with television, the ... MARK SHEPPARD You can have an interesting story about a person living an interesting life. And if it's done we... PATRICK ROTHFUSS I never take ideas from the headlines. I feel that if a story is good enough, a real story that is, ... EVAN HUNTER That's the thing about leaks: sometimes they aren't misinterpreted or false. They're rea... COLIN TREVORROW If the seed doesn't get planted, it can't become a toxic thornbush. We must guard our minds and our ... CRAIG GROESCHEL If you catch yourself wondering why you want more of the world and you're not satisfied with God, it... CRAIG GROESCHEL I try to tell a story that's good enough to win the right to integrate eternal themes into it. I... RANDY ALCORN I am often asked how it is that I am able to value people to such a deep degree. Apparently, I exhib... C. JOYBELL C. When you're not playing the hero of the story, then you have to know that you're always a fo... JESSALYN GILSIG Kentucky has always said you can't really make bourbon outside of Kentucky because it's a co... JOHN YARMUTH The architecture of a story can be a little bit different if it's a true story. JOEL COEN Films don't always tell a story; some films can achieve effect just by being razzle-dazzle or ro... ROBERT REDFORD If the breaking news event has something to do with young people, specifically with MTV's audien... TABITHA SOREN I can't think of a story that doesn't have something terrible in it. Otherwise, it's dul... DANIEL HANDLER Some people ask why we don't just wait until we have the whole story before posting. The fact is... MICHAEL ARRINGTON Actors, we like stories, we like storytelling, we love being a part of the story, and if you give us... AARON STANFORD We got kind of into a rhythm at 'Parks' because there were so many characters that we had an... ALAN YANG It's a complicated process being so bilingual. Sometimes it's a mere word or sentence that c... TATIANA DE ROSNAY Sharing stories that fill our chambers with an explosion of unique voices is a means to instigate an... KILROY J. OLDSTER I can't impress people with the pedigree of obscure French filmmakers that got me into film. It ... DOUG LIMAN It looks ancient," - Amy Cahill JUDE WATSON So many of the recipes that I come up with have a story. I'm a blogger. It flowed very naturally... AARTI SEQUEIRA Getting to do 'December Songs' in a cabaret-style format was so interesting because it's... LAURA OSNES If I grew up in 'da hood,' it would make my story so much more interesting - if I had someth... PALMER LUCKEY My favorite roles usually have to do with the story, if it's a good story I usually enjoy doing ... BEAU BRIDGES A pulp story without a detective and, obviously, somebody for him to do battle with is unthinkable, ... OTTO PENZLER I just heard a very funny story about somebody who died yesterday, I'm sorry to say so but it wa... SOPHIE MARCEAU I really liked 'Super 8'. If Steven Spielberg is an executive producer of anything, you know... CHANDLER RIGGS If somebody's pointing a trembling finger at your pants and saying you shouldn't be doing th... JOCK STURGES Steven Spielberg is unique. I feel that the kinds of movies he loves are the same kinds of movies th... FRANCIS FORD COPPOLA There's an indie movie I did called 'Fat Kid Rules the World,' which was based on a teen... LILI SIMMONS 'E.T.' depended absolutely on the concept of cinema, and I think that Steven Spielberg, who ... RICHARD ATTENBOROUGH 'The Immigrant Story,' which took me about twenty-five years to write, was a very simple sto... GRACE PALEY When the remembering was done, the forgetting could begin. SARA ZARR It doesn't matter the amount of gore, the amount of shocks that you can have in a movie if the m... FEDE ALVAREZ For starters, that’s a rather simple principle of Time Travel right there – and according to the... CHRISTINA ENGELA Art is interesting because there can be so many different perspectives in a piece of art. The way I ... JOAKIM NOAH Never give up on you. In order to make a difference you would have to somehow be different. JOHNNIE DENT JR. It's always good to have a story arch. MARGOT ROBBIE Actually, I met a lot of directors and most of them have that fantasy to make a silent movie because... MICHEL HAZANAVICIUS It's interesting because diversity doesn't just happen by garnishing your omelet with a litt... KELVIN YU I think horror or science fiction is another way of telling a modern myth - it's like Ancient Gr... REG E. CATHEY It's a director's job to tell a story and he's very well versed in telling stories with ... CUBA GOODING, JR.
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STEVEN BIKO The backbone of the electrical grid is largely massive numbers of steam driven engines that turn ele... STEVEN MAGEE Chance favors the connected mind. STEVEN JOHNSON Very few people realize that the ionizing radiation levels on a commercial jet airplane at cruising ... STEVEN MAGEE The universe is big, its vast and complicated, and ridiculous. And sometimes, very rarely, impossibl... STEVEN MOFFAT I’m so tired... I was up all night trying to round off infinity. STEVEN WRIGHT I dread having to call the police, as I have no idea if they will send good cop, bad cop, lying cop,... STEVEN MAGEE The gifts of the Master are these: freedom, life, hope, new direction, transformation, and intimacy ... STEVEN JAMES Gods, I wish the world was full of passive women.He thought for a moment longer, then scowled. On se... STEVEN ERIKSON Right now I’m having amnesia and déjà vu at the same time. I think I’ve forgotten this before. STEVEN WRIGHT An expert is a person who avoids the small errors while sweeping on to the grand fallacy. STEVEN WEINBERG Demons run when a good man goes to war Night will fall and drown the sun When a good man g... STEVEN MOFFAT Always attack. Even in defense, attack. The attacking arm possesses the initiative and thus com... STEVEN PRESSFIELD Hitler: Thank you, whoever you are. I think you just saved my life. The Doctor: Believe me... I... STEVEN MOFFAT The most deformed AC voltage sine wave that I have seen in my career was at a high altitude astronom... STEVEN MAGEE The toxicity of an electrical wiring error is a function of the dirty electricity and the electrical... STEVEN MAGEE Most people do not realize that they are one car crash away from death. STEVEN MAGEE When free from the confines of our normal identity, we are able to look at life, and the often repet... STEVEN KOTLER It is a sad state of affairs in the USA that for the sick and the poor that jail offers better benef... STEVEN MAGEE I regard the USA mass population routinely flip-flopping between the Republican and Democratic parti... STEVEN MAGEE Ambition is not a dirty word. Piss on compromise. Go for the throat. STEVEN ERIKSON We're all stories, in the end. STEVEN MOFFAT Always speak politely to an enraged dragon. STEVEN BRUST When you run with the Doctor, it feels like it'll never end. But however hard you try you can't run ... STEVEN MOFFAT He sank back into his black-and-white world, his immobile world of inanimate drawings that had been ... STEVEN MILLHAUSER Change is not always a good thing. What I need is not change from one thing to another but transform... STEVEN JAMES When Mozart was composing at the end of the eighteenth century, the city of Vienna was so quiet that... STEVEN HALPERN If we can't figure something out in three weeks, we probably shouldn't bother. STEVEN GILBERT With or without religion, you would have good people doing good things and evil people doing evil th... STEVEN WEINBERG You can't have everything. Where would you put it? STEVEN WRIGHT