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.
A really irritating thing when you're watching a film is if somebody's accent isn't bang-on - it distracts you from getting into the story because you're thinking: 'Where are they from?'
Angels, demons, spirits, wizards, gods and witches have peppered folk religions since mankind first started telling stories.
My mother told me many stories about her childhood in Cuba. Living there had a profound impact on her and how she regards herself.
We know that we're not supposed to be racially biased, and we don't want to think of ourselves as racially biased, so we tell ourselves a different story.
Subject matter that is not bound to reality offers more opportunity to write a unique story and cinematically present it in very unique ways.
How often, really, do you get a Filipino story line in a show? Not very often. I can't think of any.
I have heard repeated stories of meth users leaving their children unattended for days as they cook, use and then sleep off the intense effects of methamphetamine.
A fortress built long ago, Walls made timeless by historic glory. The small girl in the boat slows, To listen to its story.
The Industrial Revolution was another of those extraordinary jumps forward in the story of civilization.
I used to be more of a purist about literature. I thought, 'If it's a really propulsive story, then maybe there's something unliterary about it.'
Blurred is the picture, To not know what's next! Is it the laughter that awaits, Or sorrows lined up to dictate. Untold, unclear is... A story of our fate!
I am not protecting myself or preaching you my story, Reasons will be many but life will move on even in painful journey.
I live in New York City, the stories of my films take place in New York; I'm a New York filmmaker.
I always have a contract with a character. Even when he's unappealing. The contract is to give him his due. To tell his story. And to keep his secrets.
In ordinary detective novels you never see the consequences of what happens in a story in the next book. That you do in mine.
Writing detective stories is about writing light literature, for entertainment. It isn't primarily a question of writing propaganda or classical literature.
When people starts to enjoy a writer's pen, he becomes a legend even if his stories are neither long nor publicly surrounded by expectations.
The fountain of youth is like the monkey's paw in the W. W. Jacobs story. It never ends well.
I try to push a single idea to its absolute limit. So for all of those ideas that existed in the story, you attempt to find a physical realisation in the space.
