However, there's nothing more inspiring than a company that does solve problems and those problems are captured as part of a larger story.
I wanted all the responsibility to rest on the content of the story. I tried to make the visual style almost invisible.
In the best material, you always should be able to somehow make a case for a story to be transposed to any other time.
Make the short story tremendously succinct - with a very short pulse or rhythm - and the closest selection of detail - in other words summarise intensely and deeply and keep down the lateral development. It should be a little gem of bright, quick, vivid form
Whatever you do in terms of telling a story, the most important thing that you can define is who you are.
I'll find something in what I read that snags my imagination in emotional terms; it resonates with me for reasons more complicated than just that it seems like it would make a good story.
If you try to make a silent movie with a normal script and you just pull out the dialogue, you will have big problems with the actors because you will ask them to tell a story that you don't know.
Stories never really end. They can go on and on and on. It's just that sometimes, at a certain point, one stops telling them.
All the truth in the world is held in stories.
We may come from different places and have different stories, but we share common hopes, and one very American dream.
My work is not about my life history. It's not about the story of my neurosis
You can argue with someone's opinion, but you can't argue with their story.
I have never been able to understand the complaint that a story is "depressing" because of its subject matter. What depresses me are stories that don't seem to know these things go on, or hide them in resolute chipperness; "witty stories," in which every problem is the occasion for a joke; "upbeat" stories that flog you with transcendence. Please. We're grown ups now.
The premise of the Taker story is 'the world belongs to man'. … The premise of the Leaver story is 'man belongs to the world'.
The idea of starting with that Kanye [West] song is declarative. It says, "This is the kind of story we're telling. "
ACDC, Def Leppard, Alice Cooper - I learned stories of all these guys. That's when I fell in love with Queen, which is one of my favorite bands of all time. . . I started paying attention to what made music good. I started paying attention to why I liked it.
The stock market is the story of cycles and of the human behavior that is responsible for overreactions in both directions.
Goldie [Hawn] is one of the sharpest ladies I've ever worked with. She doesn't miss a thing. She's my greatest audience. She laughs at all my stories and in the right places, too.
I'm always going to have a story to tell.
I like young girls. Their stories are shorter.