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.
In honesty, there are probably a lot of stories that can be told with Batman. I like the idea of him growing older and he can't quite do it as much anymore.
As a reader, I'm often put off by authors and story-lines without families or children and all of the angst and joy they bring with them.
Nothing ever begins. There is no first moment; no single word or place from which this or any other story springs.
The simple act of telling a woman's story from a woman's point of view is a revolutionary act: it never has been done before.
Whichever character I'm using and wherever I am in my mind dictates what kind of story I'm going to tell.
In a world of full of manipulation, half-truths and lies, the conspiracy theory is often a safer bet than the official story.
Our successful stories die with us. If you are lucky enough, you go into the pages of history books where only few are interested to dig about you.
All I had, originally, were pages of Nolan's dialogue. I think his character serves the story in a nice way. He's a Greek chorus for the goings-on in the Hamptons.
I still write the occasional short story, and poked at a novel once, but it's just not what I want to do.
Perhaps this is what the stories meant when they called somebody heartsick. Your heart and your stomach and your whole insides felt empty and hollow and aching.
