Films are very influential, and I especially feel a responsibility to tell stories that have been pushed aside. Being able to shed light on issues that need to be brought to the world.
I envision the script as a story in my mind, memorize the entire thing and have it play out. It helps me figure out where my character needs to go.
Once upon a time there was a girl who was special. This is not her story. Unless you count the part where I killed her.
I think the reason my stories have been so successful is that I have a strong sense of metaphor.
The awful thing, as a kid reading, was that you came to the end of the story, and that was it. I mean, it would be heartbreaking that there was no more of it.
I think that when you're making a story... that's based on somebody, the filmmaker has his duty to do his research.
I'm not against vodka - they just asked us. They put out some story about us entertaining international celebrities with vodka, which of course wasn't true.
I like exploring both the light parts and the dark parts of a single person. And all of those shades tend to come out most acutely in stories about families.
There's a new television generation coming in every five or 10 years, and the classic stories stand up to being redone.
Political reporters and political professionals rushed to judgment against Romney because we crave clear, unambiguous story lines.
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.
