The world would be a very sad place if readers could only love one story.
When a story captures me, it comes quickly and easily.
What I usually do is tell funny stories from the road, many of which are, of course, unprintable. But I don’t actually have a joke. I don’t tell jokes much. I tell little stories.
Of course, all writers draw upon their personal experiences in describing day-to-day life and human relationships, but I tend to keep my own experiences largely separate from my stories.
Certainly going back to Sherlock Holmes we have a tradition of forensic science featured in detective stories.
For me a thriller is a very carefully structured story.
Ideally, I like to integrate the human issues into the suspense story itself.
With the destruction of history, contemporary events themselves retreat into a remote and fabulous realm of unverifiable stories, uncheckable statistics, unlikely explanations and untenable reasoning.
He read reports, examined evidence, and poured more reports up the chain than the Pentagon could read. Nothing short of a human sieve. But in the end he was just one small piece on this game board called war. End of story.
Writing wasn’t about making money. I wanted to find fulfillment in writing and telling stories, and that’s what’s driven me.
Very quickly I realized that directing is a combination of things: It’s visual, it’s directing the actors, it’s telling a story. And people don’t always mention this part of directing, but it’s also knowing how to really edit something into something that makes sense.
I went to film school to make films just because you’re in control of the story.
It’s a typical story: you think of something, it stays in the back of your head for a while, and then you finally do it.
I always wanted to write a story about a couple coming to that moment in their relationship where either they keep on going or it ends.
I don’t like reading scripts very much. I like it better for someone to just explain to me what it is about this story.
I love being part of a company, and telling a story.
Most of the time I’ve worked with directors who write their own scripts. The story is more important to me than the part. The project of the film has always been more important to me.
I saw a story in the Los Angeles Times that 40 percent of the viewers are men. It didn’t really surprise me.
Personally, as a print journalist, I always found the most interesting stories to be the ones hacks talked about in the bar after work.
It’s harder now for journalists to do stories about billionaires, like Peter Thiel, without having at the back of their minds the fear that maybe somebody deep-pocketed, you know, with limited resources is going to come after us and can my organization afford to defend me?