People are interested if you tell stories well and relevantly.
The world of religion isn’t a logical world; that’s why children like it. It’s a world of worked-out fantasies, very similar to children’s stories or fairy tales.
I always choose my projects for the script or what the director want to tell with that story. And if I like the story.
Always, your work is the same: You have to tell a story, you have to make a character. It doesn’t matter if there are thousands of dollars, millions behind it, or if there is nothing.
I always had this non-stop drive. I had to keep sending stories out and every once in awhile I’d get something accepted or get the little trickle of positive feedback.
Technology is the campfire around which we tell our stories.
We must curb ourfury, and allow sadness to diminish, and speak our stories with coolness and deliberation.
I feel like it’s hard to get into historical novels where you know what the story is far too well.
The films that I love are very straightforward stories, like really old-fashioned stuff.
You have to suspend disbelief a little bit to buy into your situation and to the story and to how the character will react. You have to tweak your credibility a little bit, is basically what it comes down to.
If people did not want their stories told, it would be better for them to keep away from me.
Usually when I’m making a movie, what I have in mind first, for the visuals, is how we can stage the scenes to bring them more to life in the most interesting way, and then how we can make a world for the story that the audience hasn’t quite been in before.
It’s also a lot easier to convince people to read an entertaining story than any other type of book!
It’s a lot more interesting to learn and discover real-life principles when they are revealed in the form of a story.
Any jokes I make I try to make sure it’s on story and helps the characters and makes sense with the movie.
I always like to tell a story.
I think it’s a shame that something as creative and vital to the nature of the human species as story-telling is largely controlled by the soulless cretins known as publishers.
For our stories are not yet finished, and perhaps will never be.
I reserve the right to tell shaggy dog stories or even common jokes as part of what I’m doing. I don’t give a damn if half the audience walks out.
I like to make movies the way people made movies in the ’70s, where they lived and died with these stories, and cared about them, and went to war for them, and they all said something they wanted to say.