The U.S. should prohibit perpetrators and supporters of Islamist brutality from entering the country while embracing advocates for religious freedom. End of story.
It is expected that a children's story will raise a difficulty and then resolve it: increasingly, this resolution is so prompt and so resounding that one forgets what exactly the difficulty was.
I've learned that in the theater the story is everything. Every lyric, every line and every musical gesture has to propel the journey of a given character or the overall plot.
I'm not really a plot writer - I'm more interested in the characters and sort of small events that propel the story forward.
Once a newspaper touches a story, the facts are lost forever, even to the protagonists.
In 'Nier Automata', the protagonists are androids, not humans, and that's very common in a Science Fiction story.
I'm telling a Richard Pryor story through me.
I really feel that I've been unjustly exorcised from the story of psychedelic music.
No one's personal life is in the public interest. It's gossip, bottom line. End of story.
The unread story is not a story; it is little black marks on wood pulp. The reader, reading it, makes it live: a live thing, a story.
I decided to write Westerns because there was a terrific market for Westerns in the '50s. There were a lot of pulp magazines, like 'Dime Western' and '10 Story Western' that were still being published. The better ones paid two cents a word. And I thought, 'I like Westerns.'
Telling purposeful stories is interactive. It's not a monolog. Ultimately, purposeful tellers must surrender control of their stories, creating a gap for the listener(s) to willingly cross in order to take ownership. Only when the listener(s) own the tellers' story and make it theirs, will they virally market it.
There's no one out there like Quentin Tarantino. His films have a signature look, and they never just stick to the same kind of story.
'Radioactive' is the fall out of my life's inspirations, a testament to my ability to survive it all and to tell the story.
My life has been sensationalised into a rags to riches story.
The story of my holiday decorating is if Ralph Lauren was trapped in a 1950s Woolworth, this is what it would look like.
'Siya Ke Ram' is the story of Sita and Ram as two equally strong individuals, and I feel 'Ramayan' is as much as Sita's journey as it is Ram's.
There must be a story within him/her that wants to come out. That's the reason why 'Dil Chahta Hai,' 'Lagaan,' and 'Rang De Basanti' worked so well: Ashutosh, Farhan, and Rakesh had a story inside them. It's very important that the director should have the fire in the belly to tell the story.
I don't regret 'West Side Story' one bit. It was an incredible movie full of young people with amazing rapport.
I grew up in a place where everybody was a storyteller, but nobody wrote. It was that kind of Celtic, storytelling tradition: everybody would have a story at the pub or at parties, even at the clubs and raves.
