'The Borrowers' is the story of tiny people who live beneath the floorboards of houses and borrow from the occupants. I may have tried to pull up a plank or two because of it.
What I had to do was keep the story within certain limits of what was, of course, plausible.
The king died and then the queen died is a story. The king died, and then queen died of grief is a plot.
Plots are artificial. Does your life have a plot? It has characters. There is a narrative. There's a lot of story, a lot of character. But plot? Eh, no.
In some ways, that's the story of my season - when I wasn't making big mistakes, I was winning races and being on the podium. And when I made mistakes I was still fourth or fifth, just off the podium.
I still write the occasional short story, and poked at a novel once, but it's just not what I want to do.
Poland is a wildly dramatic and tragic story. It's just unbelievable what went on with those people. How they survive, I don't really know. The Germans had a particular hatred for the Poles; they really considered them subhuman Slavs, and they were very brutal to them.
So many features at Sundance seemed to be powered more on the director's need to be a director than any particular story.
My preference is for people who can do sketch comedy or situational comedy, where it's not a joke, but it's telling a story.
The first album is the prelude to the full story of Luke James. It establishes me as an artist you can look forward to.
The Leicester story is great for the game in England. It's great for the appreciation of the Premier League.
What would there be in a story of happiness? Only what prepares it, only what destroys it can be told.
Yes, it's a prequel. It tells the story about how the girls were born with superpowers, but they weren't necessarily heroes at the beginning of this movie, so the movie is about the events that happen in their life to make them decide to be heroes.
An editor named Kerrie Hughes wanted me to write a short story that brought my fire-spider Smudge from my goblin books into the present-day world. I came up with libriomancy as a way to make that happen.
The classic story of the Univision network is the mainstream pretends that the network doesn't exist, but then when it comes to sweeps or the ratings, they just have millions and millions more viewers than ABC, Fox, and CBS combined; it's that kind of a success story.
Dad was a very, very principled man, and he hated any kind of story where the baddies get away with it.
TV is bigger than any story it reports. It's the greatest teaching tool since the printing press.
That's the thing about Aquaman that's cool is he's not an alien, right? He's from our planet, and he's from a society that we're not privy to in the context of the story.
When 'The Washington Post' ran the first national story about FBI profiling in 1984, no one outside of law enforcement recognized the term.
Progressives control America's schools and text book industry and they dishonestly leave the ugliest parts of the collectivist story out.
