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ALAINA HUFFMAN When I was a kid, I really loved watching 'Cinderella.' It's a fantasy, and every girl k... SARA RAMIREZ It begins with the kind of story the writers want to tell. We never sit around in those retreats and... JASON AARON My view is that musicals are love stories with great final scenes. It's just that simple. Musica... MARSHA NORMAN I was a little hesitant at first because there's so many ways you can get 'Straight Outta Co... F. GARY GRAY 'Stargate' has always had this empty hole. When we made the first one, we always intended on... DEAN DEVLIN Everybody's got a different way of telling a story - and has different stories to tell. KEITH RICHARDS So many of the recipes that I come up with have a story. I'm a blogger. It flowed very naturally... AARTI SEQUEIRA You can have an interesting story about a person living an interesting life. And if it's done we... PATRICK ROTHFUSS I think what makes 'Maze Runner' so unique is that it is a brotherhood. It's really abou... DEXTER DARDEN In the 'Buffy' room, it was never about a plot twist, ever. It was always about, 'Tell t... DREW GODDARD We're kind of the comic relief of this movie because most of the stories are very dark. And that... CAROLINE DHAVERNAS It's nice to know when you're a part of a story, it's nice to know at least something ab... AARON STANFORD I don't want to tell your story because you're a insensitive, self-centered moron. I've ... JOEL SCHUMACHER Because of streaming, serialized television has become less of a dirty word when you're pitching... JASON KATIMS When there were just eight teams in each of the big leagues, I was always told, 'It's hard t... RED SCHOENDIENST I had written a story. I wrote the story out of some desperation, really, and I didn't know I wa... DEBORAH EISENBERG I am waiting for the right story to tell. Just like 'Man of Tai Chi' just seemed to be the r... KEANU REEVES It's a director's job to tell a story and he's very well versed in telling stories with ... 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MELISSA ROSENBERG The story is a machine for empathy. In contrast to logic or reason, a story is about emotion that ge... IRA GLASS The way that we're consuming what we watch. Netflix, binge-watching, destination agnostic were n... AVA DUVERNAY Novels are so much unrulier and more stressful to write. A short story can last two pages and then i... AIMEE BENDER We have newsreaders behaving like actors, lowering their voices if it's a sad story, as if we di... TOM BAKER Every movie has three things you have to do - you have to have a compelling story that keeps people ... JOHN LASSETER I like how you don't hide your problems like everyone else, and I don't have to hide mine when I'm a... NED VIZZINI To me, a sex scene in a movie generally means a gratuitous scene that doesn't serve the story bu... JOSEPH GORDON-LEVITT Everything's always about page-turning, right? What's next? So, if you create questions for ... RON HOWARD Hearing the human spirit stories of her experience was striking. 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