Really I’m a fan of any movie, whether it’s suspense, action, or comedy – anything that has a good story.
I’m a writer. I don’t begin with some conceit in mind. I’m just trying to tell a good story.
I find most ‘rules’ about how to write a ‘good story’ confining, and I enjoy writing stories that don’t look like stories at all on the surface.
I’ve always liked women singers and appreciate a good story being told. That’s what country music used to do on the radio.
Part of success is having a good story, and as a journalist, I totally understand. But it meant that my many, many years of focus and hard work got kind of prepackaged into a Cinderella story. I’m super grateful that it happened, but it left me feeling like I never got to be a full human in the experience.
People aren’t coming to me looking for political essays or polemic – they’re looking for a rattling good story.
The inner spaces that a good story lets us enter are the old apartments of religion.
Gore isn’t required for a good story, but adversity is.
Why, I wonder, should the popularity of a news story matter to me? Does it mean it’s a good story or just a seductive one?
I’m just drawn to something that has a good story. ‘Outcasts’ didn’t do so well, but I really admired the premise behind the show.
If we can tell a good story with characters audiences can care about, I’d like to think that prejudices can fall aside and people can just experience the story and these characters for the human beings that they are.
Cinema is a director’s medium; it’s his story and his vision. If it’s a good story, people will connect to it.
It is in your DNA to love a good story. You know, neat tales with heroes and villains and conflicts to resolve. A good story pushes our buttons, is exciting and memorable.
I sketched out a rough story for them and the director said, well it’s a good story but we have the go-ahead from Universal to make this script and did I want to do it. I said no, and they left.
A movie can and should have some real dissonance throughout – rage, heartache, tears, conflict, catharsis and all the other elements Aristotle demanded of a good story – but the chord has to be resolved.
I don’t think it’s necessary to shout if you have a good story. But I also don’t think you should shy away from being bold in the statement that you’re making.
I kind of flew into a panic that somebody would have already owned the rights, because Christina Noble’s life is such a good story. It took us two full years to get Christina to agree and sign the rights.
A good story often increases the salability of an item without increasing its actual value.
I love people who have a good sense of humor, tell a good story, tell a good joke.
If I get lucky and I can choose, I would always choose a really good story and screenplay, even if I don’t know the director. If there’s a good screenplay, there’s a chance that something good is going to happen.
I’m drawn to a good story, really, as I hope most people are. For me, it’s the story that’s going to stay with you eventually, not necessarily the genre. I go to watch a film because of the story, not because it was a Western or a comedy.
Anything with a good story and characters I think would be great.
I can only look at what Labour has done to the NHS here in Wales and it’s not a good story. That includes on education as well.
To begin with, I want to tell a good story, a story that people will listen to and that they’ll think this is true, even if it is a story that might be defined as – as myth or legend or even fanciful.
A good story, just like a good sentence, does more than one job at once. That’s what literature is: a story that does more than tell a story, a story that manages to reflect in some way the multilayered texture of life itself.
In terms of writing characters or stories, at least initially, there’s no difference between live-action and animation. A good story is a good story, whatever the medium.
With action films, it’s great if it’s not just driven by action, but by a good story and interesting characters, as well. Though, there’s nothin’ like kicking butt!
I just like a good story. I want the story to be good and I want the character to be different than the last one I played. That’s not always possible, but that’s what I want.
If the director has a story, he will go directly to the hero. If I have a big hero in hand today, any big banner or corporate will come to me. But if I say I have a good story, they will ask if I have a hero.
I’ll continue doing ‘Jingle Belle’ as long as I’ve got a good story for her.
I have been sent three or four scripts for television series, but there wasn’t anything I really wanted to do. I want to tell a good story, whether it’s a TV show, a movie, whatever. That’s really my No. 1 criteria.
My favorite roles usually have to do with the story, if it’s a good story I usually enjoy doing the character.
It is my writing dilemma. The world of spying is my genre. My struggle is to demystify, to de-romanticise the spook world, but at the same time harness it as a good story.
As an actor, whatever I get the opportunity to do, if it has a good story then I’m in. I thought ‘Dead End’ had a great story; ‘Nightmare on Elm Street,’ of course, was probably the first real horror film I was in.
Queer Eye for the Straight Guy is a form of service journalism. To be successful, I think it has to be a combination of a good story, it has to be funny, and it also needs to be packed with useful information.
In my books I try to tell a good story, not give messages.
I believe in plot, in development of character, in the effect of the passage of time, in a good story – better than something you might find in the newspaper. And I believe a novel should be as complicated and involved as you’re capable of making it.
Be unpredictable, be real, be interesting. Tell a good story.
Style and entertainment tastes change, but the core emotions of being a kid – which, not coincidentally, are the core foundations of any good story – are constant.
Not that I’ve always loved the movie when they finally come out, or if they ever come out-because many of them don’t come out-but I’ve gotten to work with really good story editors and stuff like that.
All the writing elements are the same. You need to tell a good story… You’ve got good characters… People think there’s some dramatic difference between writing ‘Little Bear’ and the ‘Hunger Games,’ and as a writer, for me, there isn’t.
Great directors turn in mediocre work, and first-time directors turn in exceptional work. No matter how good a person can talk about what he wants, you never know. You just have to go with a good story and a script that you like and people that you like to work with.
A good story should make you laugh, and a moment later break your heart.
Nobody could pile on the applesauce like Mickey. He was the best liar in the world – well, Frank Sinatra can tell a good story, too, but I don’t believe he was ever unfaithful to me.
I’m a total slave to a good story.
We don’t feel pressure of, ‘Let’s make this really raunchy.’ It’s more about making a good story, which is 10 times harder. The raunchy stuff’s really easy for us.
My name is Bruce Feiler, and I’m an explainaholic. I first heard this word used to describe Isaac Asimov, and I knew instantly that I suffered from the same condition. It’s the incurable desire to tell, shape, share, occasionally exaggerate, often elongate, and inevitably bungle a good story.
I like to be part of films that have a good story, good characters.
You don’t have to be the most amazing writer, you don’t have to get top marks in your English GCSE, you just have to be someone who can tell a good story, and tell it right, and tell it well.
For any film or any web show, the story dictates everything. If it is a good story, it obviously has good characters in it.
For kids, multitasking electronically is common. But they are totally focused. You can tell a good story, and they listen.
Jewish, black, Filipino, whatever the specificity is, it’s specificity that makes a good story. And I think people are tired of seeing the same old shtick on network television. It’s just a group of white people hanging out talking about their jobs. Who cares? We’ve seen that.
I am first and foremost a storyteller; I want to tell a good story, and I want it to mean something – something that I think is important.
Oh yeah, I grew up with comics. You know, I always like to describe myself as a ‘narrative junkie.’ I love novels, I love comics, movies, TV. If it’s a good story, I’m hooked.
In childhood, we used to read stories from the Arabian Nights. Why were we so interested when it happened somewhere in Arabia, in a different culture? Until now, we hadn’t gone to the Hindi audience with a good story.
I go out and look for a good story to tell and if I like it enough and I decide to direct it, I become dangerously involved in becoming a part of that story.
I think Xbox has a really good story about value for gamers, around a lot of diversity of choice.
If you have a beautiful story, it has to have conflict. If you don’t have conflict, it can’t be a good story.
I don’t see a difference between playing a performance capture role and a live action role, they’re just characters to me at the end of the day and I’m an actor who wants to explore those characters in fantastically written scripts. The only caveat is a good story is a good character.
