Acting and singing are actually very similar because they're both telling a story.
A lot of period pieces we see are adaptations of novels - we always know the story.
Shareholders share in the downside and not necessarily in the upside; that's the whole story.
Sometime reality is too complex. Stories give it form.
And the story of love is a long sad tale ending in graves.
Walter: Those stories about Africa... They're true aren't they?
'Castle' is a guy living in a fantasy world. He's in his imagination, writing these stories of murder.
Sometimes I'll have an idea for a story or have a subject, and that will inspire lyrics, but most of the time, hopefully, they already exist somewhere else.
Television provides the opportunity for an ongoing story - the opportunity to meld the cast and the characters and a world, and to spend more time there.
I started writing, or rather, thinking, stories as a child, and at that time the reason was very clear.
I can imagine there is going to come a time when someone will do 13 hours of a story without breaks.
Films are artifice. We're telling stories on film. At the same time, when it works, there is a real tough immediacy and spontaneity to it, and a punch.
There was a time when fire and story would fall asleep in unison. It was dream time.
It seems like everyone's got an agenda, and the agenda seems to be selling magazines or air time with sensational stories.
Rock Biter: A hole would be something. No, it was nothing.
Macaulay Connor: I'm testing the air. I like it but it doesn't like me.
Woody: AAAAAH! This is the part where we blow up! Buzz: Not today.
Buzz: Years of Academy training wasted.
Hockney: What about it, pretzel man, what's your story?
It's part of a cycle of stories I'm writing where I deconstruct classic science fiction.
You want people to feel something when you tell a story, whether they feel happy or whether they feel sad.
