I actually love going to a lot of theater movies. I just love watching actors work and seeing how people tell stories.
I'm all about telling stories. I like people to picture the music video in their head when they're just listening to the song.
Despite all the technical improvements, it still boils down to a man or a woman and a microphone, playing music, sharing stories, talking about issues - communicating with an audience.
Music does not carry you along. You have to carry it along strictly by your ability to really just focus on that little small kernel of emotion or story.
Look at the darkest hit musicals - Cabaret, West Side Story, Carousel - they are exuberant experiences. They send you out of the theater filled with music.
If rock-and-roll is well done, there's nothing so terribly wrong with that kind of music. But the lyrics are another story.
If I just did music, I might go insane. I need words; I need stories. And it's the same the other way around.
The theoretical casting part of movies is the funnest part. You really can imagine so many different versions of a story based on who's embodying it.
I see the tool set being the same and maybe doing virtual movies and that's fine for some stories but not for others. And maybe make all CG movies but they are already doing it.
When we did the pilot, I sort of pictured this guy pirating a signal and then this story unfolding of him building this satellite and these robots and watching these bad movies.
I like telling stories, I like movies, and I want to work on films. I think I would feel safer behind the camera.
The way we tell our stories on stage is that we use spoken word to convey action, and in movies, we use visual images to convey action.
I think the impulse to get to the heart of the story and to tell it well is in my genes.
I've never liked watching real-life couples play couples onscreen or onstage. It takes me out of the story.
'Downton Abbey' is one of my favourite shows ever - it's just beautifully filmed, and the stories and characters are so wonderful.
'21 Grams' is only one story told by three different points of view, but they are really physically connected - literally, with the heart.
I really enjoy listening to stories. I remember them and keep them in my mind.
Vampires were myths, childhood stories– as were werewolves, mermaids and dragons. I believed none of it.
I want to present interesting stories that don't qualify themselves just by virtue of their ethnographic type.
Well, you can't improvise story, which is a fact. If you could, the budget would be insane.
It's nice to know when you're a part of a story, it's nice to know at least something about the beginning, middle, and end.
