I am very conscious of what I say and do when I go out because the media is quick to make that a story.
With a purposeful story, you can change a “wanna be” to a “gonna be” to a “be”.
I am also working on a couple of short stories for anthologies. This is new to me and Im enjoying it.
The story of a mother’s life: Trapped between a scream and a hug.
The specific story line that people have responded to the most has been the horror of bathing suit shopping.
The greatest untold story is the evolution of God.
I write because something inner and unconscious forces me to. That is the first compulsion. The second is one of ethical and moral duty. I feel responsible to tell stories that inspire readers to consider more deeply who they are.
If you walk across my camera I will flash the world your story.
It is so difficult to, day in and day out, hear these incredibly painful stories of the destructive nature of our broken immigration system.
I love storytelling, you know, beyond anything. I love a great story beyond a great performance. Storytelling is about what we all do together and how we collaborate together. A performance can be a collaboration in ways, but oftentimes it’s one individual thing.
Some novels present a story form many points of view. Most movies tell only one person’s side of the story. Sometime it’s easy to use the strongest point of view, or find the character with the most dramatic experience. It depends on which themes the scriptwriter wants to explore.
There are so many stories to tell in the worlds of science fiction, the worlds of fantasy and horror that to confine yourself to even doing historical revisionist fiction, whatever you want to call it – mash-ups, gimmick lit, absurdist fiction – I don’t know if I want to do that anymore.
I also know what looks good before the camera, how to move the camera, and how to get a story on the screen.
I knew there was a story; once you find a dog with a fork through it, you know there’s a story there.
I want to make another film. I want to make a better film about the legendary Babaji, with more close-encounter stories of people who have been with him.
I never fixed a story. I didn’t make judgments, I let the listener make judgments. When I got to the end of the story, if it had a moral, I let the listener find it.
I love involving actors at all levels – and they have to know that I want to hear their contributions, with dialogue, with story suggestions, with script changes, whatever.
The way that the stories go in the Snicket books is just the way stories naturally go to me. They’re full of misery, and yet the misery ends up being slightly hilarious. And in terms of the warnings on the back of the books, that really started as an honest assessment of their marketability.
A mystery is solved with a story.
We laughed the rest of the way, because the point of this story is, it is not the cookies. It is the love.