I'd love to adapt more contemporary novels. But there isn't really enough story and character to make a really satisfying serial, so they tend to be single dramas.
I love research so much that I do an enormous amount; it helps put off the moment of starting to write the story.
I love the three-act theory. It works and works beautifully. But you don't necessarily have to structure a story that way: Cortazar and Borges wrote in different structural styles.
For me, I just want to continue telling stories - whether it's musically or theatrically, this is what I love to do. So, I want to create more.
I think I would have been a hopeless spy. I love telling stories and am almost entirely unable to keep a secret.
They've never written a love story for me since I've been on the show and I think there's just more weight to it when two people love each other.
I write for the love of writing. If I never published another book, I would still be writing stories.
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.
The stories I'm interested in are challenging ones, and maybe that requires a little bit more of you. I love my job and I want to earn the right to do it every single day.
The first book I fell in love with was 'Little Toot,' the story of an adorable tugboat operating out of New York Harbor.
I love stories about two people who are doing illegal things, who we really enjoy watching despite the fact that we know they are doomed in some way.
Some of my favorite films are musicals, like 'Walk the Line,' 'The Rose' and 'Lady Sings the Blues.' I just love the way the music and the story fuel each other.
A lot of times you get people writing wonderful sentences and paragraphs, and they fall in love with their prose style, but the stories really aren't that terrific.
I love being on stage, I love being able to tell a story, I love the fact that the audience listens and laughs at it. It makes me happy, and it's what I live for.
I have always loved story - I escaped within it as a child, I read every day, I love figuring out the complex layers of an author's work.
I moved to New York with the derangement of love. I was writing all these terrible stories, but I had never been happier.
In drama, I think, the audience is a willing participant. It's suspending a certain kind of disbelief to try to get something out of a story.
The thing that I took away as an early fan from Bob Dylan was the storytelling aspects. He can tell some wicked stories.
I try and make little stories. Whether it's with a pencil or with bits of records, it's really the same thing.
I have to write for everyone. What really fascinates me is how you make films or make stories that can genuinely be shared by different groups.
We ought to recognize that religious strife is not the consequence of differences among people. It's about conflicts between creation stories.
