Story Quotes
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I spent 12 years doing different things in film trying to figure out the story I wanted to tell.
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When you write a story, it just flows and you don't control it. It's subconscious.
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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.
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We want a story that starts out with an earthquake and works its way up to a climax.
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You set up the story, but the characters start talking, and they go places that you didn't expect. You have to follow.
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A story isn't about a moment in time, a story is about the moment in time.
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In the world of classical ballet there are only a handful of story ballets, so getting a new one is cause for excitement.
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I'm a magpie in my fiction, taking whatever looks shiny and curious to line the nest of my story.
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As an actor, I'm my own worst critic, but after awhile, really, when you watch 'Moonrise Kingdom', it's such a fantastic film that you sort of get sucked into the story, and then you kind of forget about everything else.
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I like to be involved with the scriptwriter early on, helping shape the story, and working out how the story can be told directorially.
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Everybody knows the story of The Smiths. You can still go and see Morrissey.
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All you can do is focus on telling the best story you can with compelling characters. If you do it right, it will endure. If you do it wrong, it won't.
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A story is built on characters and reasons.
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Usually, you lose interest in a story beyond a certain point. But with 'Highway,' there was something very subtle, yet something very influential. I intended 'Highway' to be the first film that I ever made. Didn't happen.
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An experienced slush-pile reader doesn't need more than a few seconds to see if a story has potential. You don't need to eat all of a rotten egg to determine that it's rotten.
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To me the most important thing is a good story, though I know how cliche that sounds.
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A story never looks as good as when the other fellow buys it.
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A dinosaur out of context is like a character without a story. Worse than that, the character suffers from amnesia.
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There are secrets at the heart of every story; there is something that must be uncovered or discovered, both by the reader and by the characters.
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There's no story that breaks, including a five-alarm fire in Brooklyn, that I don't wish I were covering.
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There are so many female roles - particularly for young women - that are just somebody's girlfriend or somebody's daughter, or that are accessories to the main story rather than being three-dimensional characters.
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I think I've played a lesbian about five times. The first one was with Helen Baxendale in a drama called 'The Investigator,' about the conditions lesbians had to live under in the army in Britain, which was based on a true story.
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The most important thing to realise is that everyone is capable of telling a story. It doesn't matter where we were born or how we grew up.
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I'll tell you what I miss most. What I would love to do, more than anything, is just anthologies. With an anthology you can tell any story and be in every division of television. We don't have any anthologies anymore, do we?
