When people ask me about my story, I just go through the positive stuff: the tent-pole moments, the big landmark checkpoints.
And that's the most horrible thing about censorship: To avoid falling afoul of the censors, we question ourselves and censor ourselves and make a big deal out of things in our heads. We do the work of the control freaks for them, out of a desire to a...
When I was three and a half years old, I heard my big sister tell my mum that at school that day all the kids sat on the floor and watched 'The Neverending Story.' Having never heard of the movie, I concluded that this was what school must be: sittin...
Will Bloom: In telling the story of my father's life, it's impossible to separate fact from fiction, the man from the myth. The best I can do is to tell it the way he told me. It doesn't always make sense and most of it never happened... but that's w...
Usually, when I'm rappin', I'm creating a big story or a concept song that sounds like a movie to me.
I know you hear horror stories about child actors, but I think in my family when I did start acting it was never a big deal.
The greatest felony in the news business today is to be behind, or to miss a big story. So speed and quantity substitute for thoroughness and quality, for accuracy and context.
My dad was a big admirer of Sergeant York stories from the First World War.
Both 'The Wire' and 'Queer as Folk' had a big scope. They were panoramas, telling ambitious stories about two cities, Baltimore and Manchester, for the first time.
The name America has definitely grown on me. I wish there was a big patriotic story behind it, but the truth is that my grandfather was a librarian who knew all sorts of random facts.
My first big role was when I was 17 and I got the part playing Maria in 'West Side Story' in my school production.
We don't market products narrowly. We market big stories about the industry, things that matter to a lot of people.
I am a big proponent of being in touch with everyone even when I do not have a story to ask about.
The way that a handful of corporations in Los Angeles dictate how our stories are told creates a real poverty of imagination and it's a big problem.
In particular, I'm drawn to the stories that have big, high concepts and real characters at their heart. And I love where those two worlds meet, and 'Edge of Tomorrow' is the perfect canvas to explore that.
I'm not a big fan of the post-Armageddon stories, where Denzel Washington is walking around in a torn coat.
I'm perfectly proud of the work I did, looking back at it. I know I've had a bit of a revision since my 'Big Finish' stories came out.
I knew the story of 'War Horse' very well. I had read the book even before I did the auditions. I'm a big fan of Michael Morpurgo.
Is it possible that the national psychology emphasizing bigness has caused us to think only in those terms – to the detriment of the small things that have to be done if we are to win the war?
Mr. Potato Head: I found it. Woody: You found my hat? Mr. Potato Head: Your hat? No. The missus lost her earring. Oh my little sweet potato! Mrs. Potato Head: You found it! Oh, it's so nice to have a big, strong spud around the house.
In August of 1998, I completed , the sequel to my novel , one of many of my books in which a dog is among the cast of principal characters. Every time I wrote a story that included a canine, my yearning for a dog grew. Readers and critics alike said ...
