If the breaking news story had to do with hard news, politics specifically, I had a lot to do with it. If it had to do with music, Kurt Loder was more involved.
The whole story of the comfort women, the system of forced sexual slavery, the medical experiments of Unit 731, is not something that is in the US psyche. That is changing because many books are coming out.
You lie awake at 3 in the morning thinking of story ideas. You're online at 8 a.m. on a Sunday or midnight on a Wednesday. It's a job that you never push aside.
'Save the Date' feels like a quiet story about two sisters and the men in their lives, kind of reminiscent of the quieter rom-coms of the 1990s; it's very character-driven and not as wedding-focused.
I like movies about people and movies with characters; that's what I'm drawn to as a person who likes to create these characters within the story, but I like it all, really.
There were not fifteen people in the story department and twenty-five producers and stuff. And Roger had produced 1,000 movies and directed a couple of hundred, and their comments were always very, very specific.
Rap for me is like making movies, telling stories, and getting the emotions of the songs through in just as deep a way. And I grew up in rap and movies the same way.
When I started writing, there was nothing about zombies. It was all teen movies, which to me are scarier than zombies, but that's another story.
It's not like some movies where you're following a bunch of different stories you can cut around. There was nowhere to cut to. It's these guys. We're not cutting back to anybody else.
The movies that work are the ones in which somebody very smart figured out how to take all the thematic material, all the character material, all the filigree, all the beautiful writing, and put it into a story.
Despite the impression you may have from watching too much TV, movies are not about reproducing reality. They're about telling stories.
Narrator: Philoméne likes the sound of the cat's bowl on the tiles. The cat likes overhearing children's stories.
The deepest failures any fiction writer is likely to have are failures of not quite comprehending the truth of the story that he or she is telling.
I'm not a big fan of the post-Armageddon stories, where Denzel Washington is walking around in a torn coat.
A lot of compelling stories in the world aren't being told, and the fact that people don't know about them compounds the suffering.
You always read stories of people going out to California and making it as an actor with, like, two dollars, so I figured I'd try it.
I try to trace the connection between the characters and that way a story or plot emerges.
Jung Chang was the first person to tell a grand historical, political story through a personal narrative.
To me there's no difference between a book of stories and a novel - they're just slightly different shapes.
When I was a little kid, before I learned how to write, I would tell stories.
The story became a cloud, and the cloud a sheet of rain, and rain fell throughout the empire.
