I have always credited the writer of the original material above the title: Mario Puzo’s The Godfather, Bram Stoker’s Dracula, or John Grisham’s The Rainmaker. I felt that I didn’t have the right to Francis Coppola’s anything unless I had written the story and the screenplay.
I think a sequel is a waste of money and time. I think movies should illuminate new stories.
I thought I wanted to be a playwright because I was interested in stories and telling stories.
The story of my billion-dollar business starts like this. I borrowed $1,000 from a friend.
You’re encouraged to pitch your own story. That way, you’ll have more control over what you do.
You know Americans are obsessed with life and death and rebirth, that’s the American Cycle. You know, awakening, tragic, horrible death and then Phoenix rising from the ashes. That’s the American story, again and again.
There’s nothing wrong with technology. It’s when technology is the story and not the artist, that’s the problem.
Some of my favorite movies are just movies that are just good stories, and aren’t necessarily big budget movies or anything.
Every Story is different, Every Movie is different, Every Director is different.
I think that emotion and good stories can cross the times.
As an actress I just want to tell beautiful stories.
I’m always 100% committed to a character, a story and a director, and with Michael Mann it was 1,000%. I don’t know how to explain this...
I find it easier to play someone who is so far from me because you create someone – you build this person based on the story and the script, with the director.
For years, Mount Holyoke professor Joseph ‘Full Metal Jacket’ Ellis had been regaling students, interviewers and friends with gripping stories of his service in Vietnam.
There’s no need for me to get married. I live with someone; we’re happy; end of story.
Any fiction should be a story. In any story there are three elements: persons, a situation, and the fact that in the end something has changed. If nothing has changed, it isn’t a story.
I would like to do a movie where the moments could be extended and you could have the freedom of that, but I’m not precious, if it moves the story and doesn’t take away from it.
Action movies live and die by the story that you’re trying to tell. It’s hard. It’s very difficult to do an action movie that stays engaging.
Part of an actor’s job is to draw up a back story.
When I read good stories, I want to write good stories too.