I think it is nice for people to appreciate a slow-burning, beautiful story that makes you feel good when it is over.
I'm just trying to tell a nice story. Whether you're a writer or a producer, all you want to do is tell a good yarn.
I think what makes a good action film is a story that gets you involved. Just action, by itself, is not going to work.
The problem with trying to make a film good and have it work for an audience is the problem of trying to tell a story well. The shape or the color of it doesn't matter.
I have repeatedly said, when asked, that if the stories about me helped inspired our troops and rally a nation, then perhaps there was some good.
To me the most important thing is a good story, though I know how cliche that sounds.
'Good Times' is a story about the loss of innocence, how adults are responsible for their actions but children aren't.
Of course I want my films to look really good, but every single element is chosen for a reason. It's telling something in the story.
Many of the less prolific killers' stories go unheard because they simply don't make good books.
Lord of the Rings is a good thing for us because it opened the door for the genre in general. Le Guin's stories are very different from Lord of the Rings.
Even when things are at their worst, there's a little voice in your head saying, 'Good story!'
In order to have a TV series, you have to have a good idea for the story.
I don't feel famous and I didn't want my autobiography to be like a Paris Hilton story.
The stories a society tells about itself are a measure of how it values itself, the ideals of democracy, and its future.
As more people use social media to tell the story of the future, the wants and needs of more people will be reflected.
As a child, I'd always liked cowboys and Indians stories where there were two layers - gruesome in the foreground but funny in the background.
I think if everyone would write down the funny stories from their own childhoods, the world would be a better place.
So far, at least, I haven't found a way to tell my kind of stories without making them both sad and funny.
I don't have to be bam, bam, bam, funny when I'm working. I can tell stories, and there's some funny in them.
Needless, heedless, wanton and deliberate injury of the sort inflicted by Life's picture story is not an essential instrument of responsible journalism.
For me, the American promise isn't just an idea or a theory - it's my life story.
