If you're not connected emotionally to a story, then you're dead. You're really just opening the door for people to lose interest and their minds to wander, for them to start picking it apart.
In general, I think you can watch a movie in two different ways. One is the ethical point of view, one is the point of view of the story.
I wanted to think about our creation myth; you know, what is the fundamental story that defines America. And it certainly is the West.
I have some shorter stories coming out in other books early next year. I might be pitching a re-vamp of Ghost Rider in the spring. We'll see.
Authors are the closest thing man would come to understanding God. It is a remarkable thing to conjure up a life and create its story.
Making sentences is what I do. I mean, the story will come as I write.
Some people are like cats - if they're dropped upside down, they land on their feet. I get a little irritated about stories like that.
Conservative talk radio works because there are lots of conservatives who are convinced that they are not getting the whole story from the regular media.
I know I was writing stories when I was five. I don't know what I did before that. Just loafed I suppose.
Films are very influential, and I especially feel a responsibility to tell stories that have been pushed aside. Being able to shed light on issues that need to be brought to the world.
I envision the script as a story in my mind, memorize the entire thing and have it play out. It helps me figure out where my character needs to go.
Once upon a time there was a girl who was special. This is not her story. Unless you count the part where I killed her.
I think the reason my stories have been so successful is that I have a strong sense of metaphor.
The awful thing, as a kid reading, was that you came to the end of the story, and that was it. I mean, it would be heartbreaking that there was no more of it.
I think that when you're making a story... that's based on somebody, the filmmaker has his duty to do his research.
I'm not against vodka - they just asked us. They put out some story about us entertaining international celebrities with vodka, which of course wasn't true.
I like exploring both the light parts and the dark parts of a single person. And all of those shades tend to come out most acutely in stories about families.
There's a new television generation coming in every five or 10 years, and the classic stories stand up to being redone.
Political reporters and political professionals rushed to judgment against Romney because we crave clear, unambiguous story lines.
I loved being asked 2,000 questions a day, storyboarding every move, knowing as though by instinct exactly where the camera had to be, because it was my story.
It often is better to ask an ancient Hebrew goatherd, instead of a so-called expert like myself, about the meaning of a particular, biblical story.
