P. D. James Quotes
What the detective story is about is not murder but the restoration of order.
P. D. James
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We want a story that starts out with an earthquake and works its way up to a climax.
Samuel Goldwyn
It's really about, oh come on, this guy wouldn't say that or he wouldn't do that, you know, it's about the characters, about the story, about the situation.
Walter Hill
There is no 'natural' order, only the way things are.
Hanna Rosin
I've always loved massive worlds, whether in fantasy or science fiction. I like the idea of making my own rules as well as utilizing everything that I love or inspires me. It's very freeing to know you can write a story that can be as big as your own imagination.
Victoria Aveyard
All of my problems are rather complicated - I need an entire novel to deal with them, not a short story or a movie. It's like a personal therapy.
Manuel Puig
It's important for cinema to keep on evolving: for people, and not only teenagers, to be able to go to a movie that has huge epic scope but has an intellectual and real story to tell.
Baltasar Kormakur
When I watch cop shows, I really enjoy them because you can really follow the story and get involved, and the characters are always really interesting.
Vicky McClure
What I'm trying to do is to write a story. If you take something from it, that's wonderful; if you don't, that's wonderful as well.
Malorie Blackman
I'm not a very big fan of 'Slumdog Millionaire.' I think it's visually brilliant. But I have problems with the story line. I find the storyline unconvincing.
Salman Rushdie
90%, 100% are going there to hear the singing. The story is another thing. Nobody's interested in the story. Happiness is happiness.
Cab Calloway
Every story I create, creates me. I write to create myself.
Octavia E. Butler
A good story will keep you wondering about what's happening, what's going on, where does this go? Now it's going to go that way, now it's going to go that way. It has to do that. If it's predictable, it's just boring.
Fede Alvarez
This basic thing I always do: 'What happened between the character's birth, and page one of the script?' Anything that's not in the story, I'll fill in the blanks.
Viggo Mortensen
People will turn their noses up at a sequel or that type of thing, but Pixar really works hard - if they're making a sequel - to make a sequel an original movie, to make it an original story.
Dan Scanlon
I know feeling pressure gets you nowhere creatively. You've just got to understand the character, understand the story, and just play it to the fullest extent.
Finn Jones
I was also the romantic lead in The Boston Strangler - I was the only one that lived to tell the story - so I called myself the romantic lead.
Sally Kellerman
The reader is going to imprint on the characters he sees first. He is going to expect to see these people often, to have them figure largely into the story, possibly to care about them. Usually, this will be the protagonist.
Nancy Kress
It's really a sad story, and I liked that. The songs on this album talk about relationships in every aspect.
Aaliyah
With each one, I love working on the story and the characters. The stunts, each time, we keep pushing ourselves harder and harder. And they are stunts, so there's always a danger in doing them, but fortunately, I have not had a problem. I have not missed a day of work, ever, in my career. I'm always there early. And I train very hard, and we prepare very carefully for each one.
Tom Cruise
The flashbacks are a great way to give answers to the story.
Sarah Michelle Gellar
Electronic music is about brains. It is about the quality of the music, what the music conveys and the person, who created it. I would like to see music, like any other art form and craft perceived and criticized based on these premises only and not by gender.
Nic Endo
Atari Teenage Rio
I like the relative literacy of at least some of England. I mean, I didn't come for the food or the weather!
Andrew Solomon
What the detective story is about is not murder but the restoration of order.
P. D. James
