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I liked to explore different arts. But when I started acting, I knew this was the medium I want to be in for the rest of my life. Stories onscreen affect me the most.
Moran Atias
Life
Me
Rest
My Life
Medium
Onscreen
Knew
Liked
Most
Affect
Arts
Different
Want
Stories
Explore
Acting
Started
Most of the time it's the role. Sometimes it's the story and sometimes it just the paycheck. It's the little movies that come out as stories or the fact that I have work to go out, you know what I'm saying, you can only be out so long without work, you start getting antsy.
Morgan Freeman
Work
Saying
Time
You
Sometimes
Long
Out
Only
Fact
Come
Know
Most
Without
Go
Role
Antsy
Getting
Just
Stories
Story
Little
Movies
Paycheck
Start
I'm such a dork, but I really think there are derivatives to be found between story arcs and character motivations. And the way you evaluate functions is a really interesting way to look at stories and the way you act. I really believe it.
Morgan Saylor
Character
You
Believe
Think
Way
Between
Look
Motivations
Stories
Dork
Story
Interesting
Interesting Way
Really
Act
Derivatives
Evaluate
Functions
Found
I know it may sound silly, but I think my short stories have a life and identity of their own. They crop up in all sorts of places.
Morley Callaghan
Life
Own
Think
Crop
Silly
Know
Identity
Sort
Sound
Up
May
Short
Stories
Short Stories
Places
Don may yawn at the idea, which he often does, but the great thing about Don, he has confidence in me and Mike and Ed and Leslie and Steve, that we're not going go out and do stories that will put people to sleep.
Morley Safer
Great
Me
Confidence
People
Will
Out
About
He
Put
Idea
Great Thing
Steve
Does
Yawn
Go
Going
May
Often
Stories
Which
Mike
Leslie
Thing
Sleep
I want to tell stories for everyone, primarily.
Morris Chestnut
Everyone
Tell
Primarily
Want
Stories
I would never write stories with only despair and defeat and the dark side of life.
Morris Gleitzman
Life
Dark
Dark Side
Defeat
Despair
Side
Would
Only
Write
Never
Stories
Although my stories are all very different on the surface, I like to write stories about characters struggling with big problems. I'm always reminded, no matter how different from me one of my characters is from me on the surface, how we're all pretty much the same underneath.
Morris Gleitzman
Me
Matter
Problems
Big
Characters
Pretty
About
Struggling
Write
Reminded
Like
Underneath
Although
Always
How
Surface
Very
Same
Big Problems
Different
Stories
Much
Stories can bring alive the moral universe in a very vivid, useful, engaging way.
Morris Gleitzman
Universe
Way
Alive
Moral
Vivid
Very
Stories
Engaging
Useful
Bring
The type of stories I write are about young people grappling with the biggest problems in their lives, often problems that are bigger than they're actually capable of solving.
Morris Gleitzman
People
Problems
Young
Type
Solving
About
Write
Than
Often
Stories
Bigger
Biggest
Young People
Capable
Grappling
Lives
Actually
Boys, particularly, like stories where they can have images in their imagination, where they can go to scary places and experiment with what can happen.
Morris Gleitzman
Experiment
Imagination
Scary
Like
Particularly
Boy
Go
Where
Happen
Stories
Places
Images
I don't know if it's a sadistic side or whatever, but you take characters and put them in really awful situations and make them go through that. And it's very satisfying as a director to explore that, to tell those stories and to explore those themes, because it is so human.
Morten Tyldum
You
Director
Whatever
Side
Those
Tell
Characters
Through
Take
Put
Sadistic
Know
Make
Because
Go
Very
Situations
Human
Stories
Them
Themes
Really
Explore
Satisfying
Awful
I want to write a script, but before that, I am planning to compile a book of short stories.
Mouni Roy
Book
Before
Compile
Write
Am
Short
Want
Stories
Short Stories
Script
Planning
I tried my hand in action films, and now I am back to love stories, as people like to see me as a lover boy! But as an actor, I want to try all genres.
Naga Chaitanya
Love
Me
People
Try
Lover
Action
Films
Back
Tried
See
Like
Genres
Boy
Am
Hand
Love Stories
Want
Stories
To Love
Action Films
Now
Actor
It's true that love stories are my comfort zone, and the result that 'Premam' got has only boosted my confidence in trying films of this genre.
Naga Chaitanya
Love
Confidence
Result
Films
Only
True
Genre
Comfort
Comfort Zone
Got
Trying
Love Stories
Stories
Zone
We used the Western style to express our own themes and stories. But don't forget that our heritage includes The Thousand and One Nights.
Naguib Mahfouz
Style
Own
Heritage
Nights
Our
Thousand
Western
Forget
Stories
Themes
Used
Express
Sometimes you can't really control the language around you. All you can do is follow your voice and your path - dedicate yourself to stories that matter.
Nahnatchka Khan
You
Yourself
Sometimes
Matter
Path
Language
Control
Follow
Voice
Around
Stories
Really
Your
Dedicate
Whatever I do - whether it's directing, producing - I just come at things from characters, from stories, from jokes and scene rhythms. I'll always have that at the epicenter, I think.
Nahnatchka Khan
Jokes
Whatever
Think
Characters
Directing
Scene
Come
Always
Just
Stories
Whether
Rhythms
Producing
Things
In the writers' room, the challenge is always to tell interesting stories in unexpected ways, so we try to never limit ourselves in how we accomplish that.
Nahnatchka Khan
Try
Challenge
Ways
Ourselves
Tell
Writers
Never
Limit
Always
How
Accomplish
Unexpected
Stories
Interesting
Room
Interesting Stories
A show could be 10 minutes, seven minutes, 94 minutes. We just need to tell the stories that need to be told.
Nancy Dubuc
Seven
Tell
Minutes
Could
Just
Stories
Show
Need
Sometimes people get fairly obscure just for the creative license of it, and that can backfire. Iconic stories are iconic for a reason, and there are so many incredible, iconic history stories that have not been told that we don't need to go too deep in the well yet.
Nancy Dubuc
History
Creative
People
Sometimes
Too
Incredible
License
Obscure
Well
Fairly
Go
Been
Get
Just
Stories
Iconic
Reason
Deep
Many
Need
Every story makes a promise to the reader. Actually, two promises, one emotional and one intellectual, since the function of stories is to make us both feel and think.
Nancy Kress
Promises
Every
Think
Promise
Both
Emotional
Feel
Since
Make
Reader
Makes
Intellectual
Stories
Story
Us
Function
Actually
Two
Novels have much more space than short stories, which gives you more leeway with the number of characters you can include. Even 'furniture' characters can be described and given speaking parts to develop background or atmosphere.
Nancy Kress
You
Space
Background
Furniture
Characters
Atmosphere
Given
More
Gives
Develop
Parts
Leeway
Than
Short
Stories
Short Stories
Which
Much
Speaking
Even
Include
Novels
Number
We human beings get nervous if we don't know what's going on. It's the rule for creating scary stories: the unknown is always more frightening than the known.
Naomi Alderman
Nervous
Unknown
Rule
Scary
More
Know
Known
Always
Than
Frightening
Get
Going
Human
Human Beings
Stories
Creating
Beings
People will still give me attention: even when my teeth are gone, I'll have some good stories to tell.
Nargis Fakhri
Good
Me
People
Will
Gone
Teeth
Tell
Some
Give
Give Me
Good Stories
Attention
Still
Stories
Even
I'm an interpreter of stories. When I perform it's like sitting down at my piano and telling fairy stories.
Nat King Cole
Down
Telling
Piano
Perform
Like
Fairy
Sitting
Stories
Interpreter
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