A dinosaur out of context is like a character without a story. Worse than that, the character suffers from amnesia.
My growth as an artist and a person has been so slow and gradual, it's hard to make a story out of it.
It was suggested that I take a recording test. I passed, was liked and, well, you know the rest of the story.
I think there's a certain lyricism in the telling of a scientific story.
Every Pixar film, when we start developing the story, it takes about four years to make one of our films.
Women tell stories; men want answers. Guys get impatient when we drone on forever; we get frustrated when they tune out.
Tattoos are like stories - they're symbolic of the important moments in your life. Sitting down, talking about where you got each tattoo and what it symbolizes, is really beautiful.
I like good stories. Quality products and character are what's important. Even if the script isn't that strong, if I challenge myself with a great character, I'll go for it.
Boys, particularly, like stories where they can have images in their imagination, where they can go to scary places and experiment with what can happen.
Both 'The Wire' and 'Queer as Folk' had a big scope. They were panoramas, telling ambitious stories about two cities, Baltimore and Manchester, for the first time.
When you get into a film, it is one story and one set development of a character, and you are able to delve into one character for a short period of time and discover everything about them.
It's like tabloid news programs that talk about how horrible something is, while at the same time they're glorifying it as their top story.
After The Silence of the Lambs and Hannibal, the audience would like to know where, when, and who arrests Hannibal Lecter for the first time. This is the story of Red Dragon.
I don't think they knew exactly where they were going with the character, but they lay those stories out ahead of time, so they had some idea where they wanted it to go.
If one day a TV series comes into my head, and that is what I want to write, I'll write it. It just depends what story is in my brain at the time.
One thing that happens on the 'Newsroom' is that every time a real story does get incorporated into the show, there's always an angle that's provided that hasn't really been dealt with yet.
What I find fascinating about Hanukkah, the Jewish festival of lights we celebrate at this time of the year, is the way its story was transformed by time.
Sea Hunt was the first time anyone tackled a show that took place underwater. The stories were sort of exciting for kids, like cops and robbers underwater.
TV has gotten perhaps better than your average film script, but at the same time, it's fun to give it all you've got for a few months and produce a story.
I'm inspired every time I see a role I'd like to play, an actor turn in a well crafted performance, a story I'd like to tell, direct or produce.
Like so many writers I started writing stories because I didn't have much time for anything else.
