This story is about love, which means that it is also about hate.
Just because I’m telling a story about a woman losing faith is not my rebellion against what I grew up in. If anything, it really affected the way I approached the story, and in fact, approach everything. I don’t judge my characters.
I chase after inspiring stories.
I just wanted to make sure that yes, that those horror – they worked as a genre. To me, I just wanted to be touched by the film in the way that I saw plausible. Which is the story about compassion – giving and receiving it in those desperate times of need.
I keep everything very simple. I like telling stories.
What you never want to do is have a story that doesn’t track emotionally, because then you’re going joke to joke and you’re going to fatigue the audience. The only thing that’s going to string them to the next joke is how successful the previous joke is.
I can’t impress enough upon people that if you tell an honest story that people relate to and people believe and invest in, you can do anything.
My name is Bruce Feiler, and I’m an explainaholic. I first heard this word used to describe Isaac Asimov, and I knew instantly that I suffered from the same condition. It’s the incurable desire to tell, shape, share, occasionally exaggerate, often elongate, and inevitably bungle a good story.
The bottom line: if you want a happier family, create, refine and retell the story of your family’s positive moments and your ability to bounce back from the difficult ones. That act alone may increase the odds that your family will thrive for many generations to come.
There’s a reason the Exodus story has inspired so many Americans. It’s a narrative of hope.
The way to tell a really big story, I think, is to tell a really small story.
I’ve heard so many stories of young girls watching the Olympics and being inspired by it, and they want to do it now, and that’s really cool.
As I don’t consider myself exceptional, but simply a storyteller, each of my stories is really a period of my life. Deep down I feel that criticism of my work-which is the most sincere and authentic vision of myself-is unsuitable and immodest, whether it is favorable or unfavorable.
Whenever I meet people for the first time, I assume that they have a great story to tell and that it’s my job to find it.
In the best material, you always should be able to somehow make a case for a story to be transposed to any other time.
Movies are all about plot. Theater, even if it’s story heavy, it’s about ideas.
You’ll find that the movie business is paid for by those mega movies. The movie business is paid for by Big Macs. By movies as product. Movie studios use that term “product” all the time. Product? You mean you have a lot of stories? No, we have a lot of product. You have stories.
Ever since I was young, I’ve read Austen and the Brontes. My friends laugh, but those books are always so tragic and wonderful – those stories, they’re just incredible.
There are no beginnings, not even to stories. There are only places where you make an entrance into someone else’s life and either stay or turn and go away.
I do think a good story in a novel is fair game and there’s nothing wrong with adapting that. It sometimes gets a bit facile where they think: “Let’s get the next best-seller and see if we can turn it into a film.”