We constantly run lines together before every show too, and then there's a long, traditionally long, story to tell the audience every show. Today, we're doing it twice.
In a crime story, the details become tremendously important - where the staircase was in relation to the bed, for example.
Serial murders are just the worst stories. It can take an emotional toll on you.
'Beneath the Piano' by The Devil Makes Three somehow reminds me of an old Johnny Cash song. The song is a lot of fun and tells a story.
You know, when I did 'American Idol' the three times, I tried to tell these kids you have to tell the story of the lyric.
An unread book does nobody any good. Stories happen in the mind of a reader, not among symbols printed on a page.
I'm trying to tell a story, to entertain. I try and do something that might just take people's minds off their troubles.
The fact of storytelling hints at a fundamental human unease, hints at human imperfection. Where there is perfection there is no story to tell.
You hear stories of intense actors who can't shed their character and who don't know who they are for a week or two after. I'm not that guy, man.
I guess what's most surprised me in most of the reviews is that they don't seem to get the noir story in the dream sequence, so they analyze it like a straight noir movie.
There is something delicious about writing the first words of a story. You never quite know where they'll take you.
I'm not tied to budgets. I'm tied to the story that I want to tell, and how much it's going to cost is up to whatever the economic situation of the studio is.
Billions of years before twelve step groups, God committed shotgun suicide. Today wall scrapings share His gratitude stories.
All my fiction starts from a feeling of unique perception, the pressure of a secret, a story that needs to be told.
Fantasy/science-fiction stories have been around almost as long as each genre, but every hybrid now lives in the shadow of 'Star Wars.'
Lawyers didn't seriously get involved in the Watergate stories until quite late, when we realized we were on to something.
It would seem that the Watergate story from beginning to end could be used as a primer on the American political system.
I write human stories. I write about people. Not as a product of their environment. But from the stance that everybody is made of the same thing.
Stories serve the purpose of consolidating whatever gains people or their leaders have made or imagine they have made in their existing journey thorough the world.
People have to identify with their own stories, with their own lives, so a movie belongs to a country and to a culture. Sometimes we can share, but it's very rare.
I think original voices get noticed. But most importantly, I think you should have a story to tell.
