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I truly believe that cinema is a collaborative effort, and as long as I get to tell, and be part of, interesting stories and work with genuine people, I don't see any project as a 'risk.'
Rana Daggubati
Work
People
Cinema
Long
Believe
Project
Collaborative
Tell
See
Risk
Part
Genuine
Truly
Effort
Get
Any
Stories
Interesting
Interesting Stories
Because I had a lot of emotional upheaval in my life, I'm attracted to stories about characters whose lives are full of wounds and secrets. I'm not interested in who's going to ask me to the prom. I never went to a prom.
Randa Haines
Life
Me
My Life
Secrets
Prom
Characters
Wounds
About
Emotional
Never
Had
Attracted
Because
Lot
Upheaval
Going
Stories
Not Interested
Interested
Ask
Full
Whose
Lives
There are a lot of communities within the Asian Pacific Islander umbrella that are predominantly more working-class or lower class, and those stories haven't been told yet, so my hope is that we see the gamut of perspectives.
Randall Park
Hope
Class
Those
See
More
Within
Been
Lot
Umbrella
Stories
Pacific
Asian
Perspectives
Lower
Lower Class
Communities
Working-Class
The kind of in-depth investigative journalism we practice at 'Frontline' is thoughtful, rigorous, and time-intensive. It requires us to constantly seek untold stories and to give our producers and reporters the time and resources to dig into them deeply.
Raney Aronson-Rath
Time
Practice
Dig
Our
Resources
Thoughtful
Kind
Rigorous
Constantly
Seek
Give
Investigative
Journalism
Untold
Reporters
Stories
In-Depth
Them
Us
Producers
Requires
Deeply
Fairy tales and folk tales are part of the DNA of all stories and great fun to write.
Ransom Riggs
Great
Great Fun
Folk
Write
Part
Tales
Fairy
Fairy Tales
Stories
Fun
My God, do we have some of the most amazing people. You won't find stories like ours. You almost feel like, if there's ever a need to tell an American story, just come to Detroit.
Rashida Tlaib
God
You
People
Amazing
Ours
Tell
Find
Some
Detroit
Almost
Feel
Come
Like
Most
Most Amazing
Amazing People
American
Just
Stories
Story
Ever
Need
I had, at a point in time, decided not to write on the corporate world. But if people expect me to set stories in a work environment, then why go away from it?
Ravi Subramanian
Work
Time
Me
People
World
Go Away
Corporate
Corporate World
Point
Write
Had
Environment
Go
Expect
Stories
Decided
Work Environment
Then
Why
Away
Set
When you write stories linking reality to a big storyline, people relate to it better.
Ravi Subramanian
You
Reality
People
Better
Big
Relate
Write
Linking
Stories
Storyline
There's a market for fiction based on financial services. People wanted me to write stories based on this sector. There's a gap in the market, and I'm trying to fill it.
Ravi Subramanian
Me
People
Financial
Market
Sector
Financial Services
Write
Trying
Fiction
Wanted
Stories
Gap
Fill
Based
Services
The first stories I wrote when I was 12 were about Mars and landing on Mars.
Ray Bradbury
First
Mars
About
Wrote
Were
Stories
Landing
My stories run up and bite me on the leg - I respond by writing down everything that goes on during the bite. When I finish, the idea lets go and runs off.
Ray Bradbury
Me
Writing
Down
Everything
Bite
Respond
Run
Runs
Finish
Idea
Go
Off
Up
Leg
Goes
Stories
Lets
I think the reason my stories have been so successful is that I have a strong sense of metaphor.
Ray Bradbury
Strong
Sense
Think
Strong Sense
Metaphor
Been
Stories
Successful
Reason
All my stories are like the Greek and Roman myths, and the Egyptian myths, and the Old and New Testament.
Ray Bradbury
Old
Myths
New
Like
Testament
Greek
New Testament
Roman
Egyptian
Stories
Most of my short stories are fantasy.
Ray Bradbury
Most
Short
Stories
Short Stories
Fantasy
I brought in the stories many times. I don't just do animation.
Ray Harryhausen
Brought
Animation
Times
Just
Stories
Many
Most of my stories, if not all of them, have some basis in real life. That's the kind of fiction I'm most interested in. I suppose that's one reason I don't have much respect for fiction that seems to be game playing.
Raymond Carver
Life
Game
Respect
Real Life
Kind
Some
Seems
Suppose
Most
Real
Fiction
Stories
Interested
Them
Much
Reason
Playing
Basis
There's a new television generation coming in every five or 10 years, and the classic stories stand up to being redone.
Rebecca Eaton
Generation
Every
Television
Classic
New
Coming
Years
Up
Five
Being
Stories
Stand
Stand Up
As a child I loved ghost stories.
Rebecca Hall
Ghost
Ghost Stories
Child
Stories
Loved
We can't constantly tell stories of heroes. We have to hear the other stories, too, about people in dire straits who make bad choices.
Rebecca Hall
People
Heroes
Too
Other
Tell
Bad
Bad Choices
Constantly
Dire
About
Make
Hear
Stories
Choices
Who
Almost every week, there are stories in the press or on Chinese social media about what even the official Chinese media call 'hot online topics:' stories about how people in a particular village or town used Weibo to expose malfeasance by local or regional authorities.
Rebecca MacKinnon
People
Social Media
Every
Local
Press
Topics
About
Online
Week
Hot
Almost
Particular
Town
Call
How
Authorities
Official
Stories
Chinese
Regional
Social
Used
Expose
Even
Village
Media
One of the things that defines YA is a really strong narrative. Adults love YA because, at the end of the day, they're good stories and page-turners. The other element is emotion. The teen years are a very emotional and intense time, and I think it's a time we that we can all relate to and remember.
Rebecca Serle
Love
Time
Good
Day
Strong
Remember
End Of The Day
Think
Teen
Other
Relate
Teen Years
Defines
One Of The Things
Good Stories
Emotion
Emotional
Adult
Ya
Because
Narrative
Years
End
Very
Intense
Stories
Really
Element
Things
I really am so grateful to get to do what it is I love - build worlds. Most of my job is playing make-believe, getting to know the people in my head, and letting them help me tell their stories.
Rebecca Serle
Love
Me
Grateful
People
Job
Build
Worlds
Tell
Head
Know
Most
Make-Believe
Am
Get
Getting
Stories
Them
Really
Help
Letting
Playing
The more I know about America, the better I'll be at performing American characters and American stories.
Rebel Wilson
Better
Characters
About
More
Performing
Know
America
American
Stories
When it was time to go to college, I was going to apply to Boston University for journalism, and dad said, 'Why not apply to NYU film school, because you love telling stories and taking pictures?' And I thought, 'Oh, I can do that for a job? Cool!'
Reed Morano
Love
Time
You
School
Job
Thought
College
Telling
Boston
Taking
Journalism
Pictures
Because
Said
Go
Going
Oh
Stories
Cool
Dad
Film
NYU
Why
Why Not
Film School
Apply
University
Catholic fiction of the type we're publishing is stories that we know faithful Catholics will enjoy - stories they can escape with, laugh at, cry with; stories that will enrich their lives.
Regina Doman
Will
Faithful
Enjoy
Type
Enrich
Laugh
Know
Cry
Catholic
Catholics
Escape
Fiction
Stories
Lives
Publishing
Our culture places a very high value on storytelling, and the more that Catholic writers are able to master that craft, the more they can speak to the culture, the more powerful their stories will be.
Regina Doman
Culture
Speak
Will
Value
Master
Our
High
Able
More
Writers
Powerful
Catholic
Very
Craft
Stories
Places
Storytelling
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