Story Quotes
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That sort of detailed filmmaking is one, hard to do and not have it be pretentious, and two, have it tell the story, which is what you're taught, that cinema is the language of images and you really should be able to make a film with no dialogue and tell a story.
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The supporting characters typically carry less story/plot weight - so you can be more broad and pushed with them. Supporting characters also take up less of the film's screen time. A short is a great opportunity for supporting characters to shine.
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Francois Truffaut was my godfather on 'Sugar Cane Alley.' He believed in me and in that story, and told everyone that it should be made.
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I feel glamour has a legit place on the ramp and in the fashion world. In films, glamour has to service the story.
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Create a story of which you will be proud.
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The short story form allows evocation, suggestion, implication. Its potency often lies in what it does not say.
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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.
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I have people constantly come up to me telling me that I have written their life. When I wrote the story I thought it was a pretty good story but I had no idea that many people felt like that.
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I never punched in anything when I recorded Imaginaryland. Where the title came from is a whole other story.
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I hate it when characters know things but only reveal them when it's convenient to the story. I'd never do that. That's cheating.
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We're looking at a story we want to call "Am I Black enough for you?" That's that whole question of who determines what "Black enough" is. Is it color? And if it's color, then are you telling me that Clarence Thomas is Blacker than Louis Farrakhan? If it's not color then what's the line that determines whether you are?
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I'm certainly hoping that 3D gets to the point where people do not notice it because once they stop noticing it, it just becomes another tool and an aid to help tell a story.
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We like things to be black or white, tall or short, here or there. We like to consider two sides to every story. Unfortunately, there aren't always two sides. Sometimes there's only one; more often, there are multitudes. Many facets on the stone. Nooks and crannies in abundance. Things are usually not either black or white, but multicolored.
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A scene isn't a random stretch of action. It arises for a reason, and it's going somewhere. It has meaning. It has a point: at least one thing that needs to be shown or established at that spot in a story.
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To see my story turned into a movie is mind-blowing.
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'Red Band Society' is inspiring, funny, and an uplifting story that makes you want to make the most of your life, love and live to the fullest, and that's a great message.
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The true story...is the realization that no time in your life is ever perfect, that even the best memories have cracks you might not see.
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Life is like that. Death sweeps it away. That's what death is for. That's why they keep telling this story. It's the only story.
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One of the things you learn very early in writing for television, especially, is that compressing the story is always a good idea.
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I believe all stories are love stories, and there are kinds and kinds of love, so I will always write about love, but not necessarily romance.
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Always stick to the story. It was when you started backtracking that people got in trouble. Interrogation 101.
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Every story is us
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It's a lot harder to write a story that's compelling about identity and sense of self without some villain in the room.
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Developing a full length feature is much longer process than developing a short. With features you're typically dealing with more characters, plot, emotion, story arc, etc. - a short is the same only much... shorter!
