As cliched as it sounds, if you have an original voice and an original idea, then no matter what anybody says, you have to find a way to tell that story.
I never get used to the red carpets and premieres, to be honest, but when you're walking down the red carpet promoting stories such as 'Mabo,' it means everything to me.
Our life is a blank book and we are the authors......... Write and shape your story as much as the mind can imagine it
You've just got to focus on excellence and try not to be distracted by the news and the rumors and the absurdities of the stories that were coming out.
You get guys around a campfire, and they start telling their stories. That's the fellowship that they want to be in.
It's hard when you're doing a film based on a true story to really figure out what all those relationships were.
It's much easier to make a movie with kind of stylistic pyrotechnics because you can hide behind that if there's a gap in the story.
In a very straightforward way, I am a terrible reporter. I'm not someone who can go into a story and not get involved.
Read a lot. Read broadly... Tell stories to your friends, and pay attention to when they get bored... Write a lot.
I am also working on a couple of short stories for anthologies. This is new to me and I'm enjoying it.
I am very conscious of what I say and do when I go out because the media is quick to make that a story.
While the archetype of the tinker is generally the whipping person in classical bedtimes stories, this particular individual was a tinker by trade and just happened to be economically disadvantaged.
I'm not really a big musical fan. I enjoyed 'West Side Story' when it came out, but it gets a bit tired in the end.
The mainstream media in America has become an insidious device of ignorance. They not only shape the story, but now participate. For what?
Writing a novel is actually searching for victims. As I write I keep looking for casualties. The stories uncover the casualties.
I believe in rules of behavior, and I'm quite interested in stories about the consequences of breaking those rules.
I feel my story has been exercised very thoroughly and very frequently.
I find it very hard to sit down and create an idea or especially a new character on command. Usually my characters evolve by accident out of some story context.
One guy records the voices, another guy times the storyboard, another guy times the sheets, one guy is the story editor. All these jobs should be covered by the director.
Headline writing is tough because often times you are given a predetermined number of spaces and words depending on the layout and the type of the story.
In families there is always the mythology. My father died when my kids were quite young still, and yet they still tell his stories. That is how a person lives on.
