Raising a child is very much like building a skyscraper. If the first few stories are slightly out of line. no one will notice. But when the building is 18 or 20 stories high, everyone will see that it tilts.
A lot of the times I’m looking at something that I discover is part of a larger framework and not just a couple jokes. I see that it’s a set, a story that I’ll be telling. Sometimes I get lost in that.
I didn’t do drugs, I never did do drugs. Never. I don’t have any story of drugs, you know, to speak of. Never did drugs, never was interested in drugs and then I wasn’t interested in the people around the drugs.
When we report stories, we don’t just want to talk to people who did the right thing. We want to talk to people who did the wrong thing.
I will do almost anything for the sake of a joke or for the sake of someone’s real belief in something to help tell a story.
I think my story says that, when women are given the chance and the opportunity, that we can achieve a lot. We deliver.
A story? No. No stories, never again.
The short story, I should point out, is perforce a labor of love in today’s literary world; there’s precious little economic incentive to write one...
I don’t know any family that doesn’t have a story somewhere. Besides, it you didn’t have those things in life, you’d be so bland.
My personal feeling is that audiences are crying out for stories they can invest in and feel. I see a lot of big movies that leave me feeling rather numb.
What’s wonderful about Into The Woods is that you have a combination of all the most famous fairytales in this one story.
With movies, you are always in search is a good story, one that everyone will relate to and love. I love finding those stories and creating a visual world to tell the story.
I think the work that they do and the style of 3D graphics is absolutely fabulous and I think it’s a great brush to use for some stories. And there are other brushes that I think are exclusive to a different kind of story.
In the Seventies, a lot of executions via electric chair failed because of technical problems. Seed tells the true story of someone who survived and sought revenge. They buried him alive to make it seem he was dead.
So if you want to have a great video game-based movie you have to keep the mood of the game, use the normal character setup – but you have to flesh out the story and provide more background for the characters.
I think Billy Ray has a lot of great stories up his sleeve. I’ve heard a lot of his plans for the show, should it go forward, and I think there’s a lot in store for people, if it’s given a chance.
Remember, we know the end of the story of World War II and the Cold War. But day by day, living in fear of the Nazis and then in fear of the Soviets, the outcome was by no means certain.
I’m a very private person. My life story isn’t for everybody.
Everyone has their story. Everyone has issues. You have to face your fears.
Certain stories that you want to see resolve in certain ways are, and some aren’t, but that’s life.