I could send myself right back to the day that I wrote "Angel Of The Morning," how it felt. I had a buzz through me that morning that was so powerful. I knew I had done something that meant something, because of that feeling. It wasn't a question of whether other people liked it. . . I loved it. To me, it had to be one of the most important love stories of all time.
I always wanted to write a story about a couple coming to that moment in their relationship where either they keep on going or it ends.
I'm a New York story.
Listen up and I'll tell a story about an artist growing old. Some would try for fame and glory; others aren't so bold.
For why are we here if not to try to fathom one another? Not through facts alone, but with the full extent of our imaginations. And what are stories if not tools for imagining?
Sometimes a person needs a story more than food to stay alive.
Doctor Strange is an origin story so there's a certain room for me improving as well as the character improving.
You have to understand, my dears, that the shortest distance between truth and a human being is a story.
There are tons of stories out there. I read a lot of scripts on a weekly basis. I'm looking for stories to tell and stories that I hope will be interesting to an audience.
Try to make the time frame the minimum the story will permit.
He had never before felt so self-consciously young, nor experienced such appetite, such impatience for the story to begin.
For me, I want to tell stories that will affect my children in a positive way, that they can be proud of me for working on and doing. I want to be alight in the world. There's enough darkness.
I like stories that exist both in the naturalistic world and in our imaginative lives, films are so immersive in that sense, we can explore how our characters think and dream, as well as how they exist in the real world.
I don't read a lot of magazines, but when I'm traveling, I'll pick up a copy of 'Vanity Fair' to read on the plane - it's like a full meal! The articles are so good, especially the crime stories. Browsing the Web is more like snacking - but I live on snacks.
With everything you do as an actor, you obviously know the full story. But the person watching it doesn't, necessarily. So, you just have to discipline yourself to wipe the slate clean as you go along.
I make no distinction between writing and storytelling; I've always wanted to tell stories.
You don't necessarily need to go to film school to learn that part of it. But what I valued was that it gives you that incubation and time to figure out who you are, what kind of stories you want to tell, and how you want to forge your path.
There are some stories you can't hear enough. They are the same every time you hear them. But you are not. That's one reliable way of understanding time.
I want to make honest music and tell honest stories that hopefully reflect the thoughts and feelings other people have.
I love women being the heroes of the piece. There is just something so dramatic and important about this story [The Nightingale ].