Storyless is not abstract. Two dancers on the stage are enough material for a story; for me, they are already a story in themselves.
You come up with a story line, you hire the writer, the director, the stars, the set designer.
Behind each number is a person, a victim, whose individual story is ghastly.
Directors go their whole career without being able to tell personal stories and to work with a cast as talented as they are.
In honesty, there are probably a lot of stories that can be told with Batman. I like the idea of him growing older and he can’t quite do it as much anymore.
I chose to tell a personal story. When you tell a movie like this that’s as emotionally charged as this is, it’s a risk. As one of my great cinematic heroes, Francis Coppola, would say, “If you aren’t taking the highest, greatest risk, then why are you a filmmaker?”
I really love storytelling, and I love the stories as they reveal themselves. It’s an incredibly nourishing process; it’s probably the closest I come to having a religion.
I would say try to tell stories that you care about as opposed to stories that you think will sell.
Many stories are invented about me – too many stories; almost everyone uses me, and I’d say about 0.01 percent of the gossip is true.
Our lives preserved. How it was; and how it be. Passing it along in the relay. That is what I work to do: to produce stories that save our lives.
The story is a piece of work. The novel is a way of life.
It’s really important that, as women, we tell our stories. That is what helps seed our imaginations.
Truth is not exciting enough to those who depend on the characters and lives of their neighbors for all their amusement; and if a story is told of more than common interest, ennui is sure to have its joy in adding embellishments. If hours did not hang heavy, what would become of scandal?
My dear husband, Richard, has been the driving force behind my success and rise to whatever level I am now. My story and legacy is incomplete without his mention.
I love stories about misfits and underdogs.
But on the other hand, I don’t actively seek out stories or hunt them down.
Every woman has a story.
So we make stories of our own, in fevered and envious imitation of our Maker, hoping that we’ll tell, by chance, what God left untold. And finishing our tale, come to understand why we were born.
I firmly believe that a story is only as good as the villain.
Every love story is a potential grief story.