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When I'm on an adventure, I live with a camera in my hand, and that's what I try to give to the readers inside the space that gives us every chapter of the story.
Eduardo Risso
Chapter
Try
Space
Live
Every
Inside
Give
Gives
Adventure
Readers
Camera
Hand
Story
Us
In drama, I think, the audience is a willing participant. It's suspending a certain kind of disbelief to try to get something out of a story.
Edward Norton
Try
Think
Drama
Out
Kind
Willing
Something
Participant
Disbelief
Audience
Get
Story
Certain
Writing historical novels can be dangerous. We need to be as accurate and as fair about the historical record as we can be, at the same time as creating our fictional characters and, hopefully, telling a good story. The challenge is weaving the fiction into the history.
Edward Rutherfurd
Time
Good
History
Writing
Dangerous
Challenge
Our
Characters
Telling
Hopefully
Record
Weaving
About
Good Story
Fair
Historical
Accurate
Same
Same Time
Fiction
Fictional
Story
Creating
Novels
Need
To me this movie is about what is valuable. To one person it might be a stone; to someone else, a story in a magazine; to another, it is a child. The juxtaposition of one man obsessed with finding a valuable diamond with another man risking his life to find his son is the beating heart of this film.
Edward Zwick
Life
Me
Man
Heart
Son
Valuable
Diamond
Else
Find
Finding
One-Man
Magazine
About
Someone
Risking
Beating
Obsessed
Another
Another Man
His
Child
Person
Stone
Movie
Story
Might
Juxtaposition
Film
I've always believed that the stories and the performances are more important than I am. I think that the more invisible that my hand is, the more attention people can pay to the story and to those performances.
Edward Zwick
People
Important
Pay
Think
Those
More
Attention
Invisible
Performance
Always
Am
Hand
Than
Stories
Story
Believed
If you take away scale, the nature of the story changes. I made a joke the other day: if I were to try to make 'Glory' now, rather than be about a regiment, it would be about a platoon. It would be seven men in the woods rather than all the men on the beach.
Edward Zwick
Day
Nature
You
Try
Made
Men
Joke
Other
Changes
Seven
Scale
Would
Would-Be
About
Beach
Rather
Take
Make
Glory
Were
Than
Woods
Story
Regiment
Now
Platoon
Away
It's hard not to want to become Ken Burns at times. I'm interested in being a Ken Burns who reaches that 17-year-old who goes to the multiplex just to see a good story well-told. And if there's history in it, all the better.
Edward Zwick
Good
History
Better
Become
See
Good Story
Times
Goes
Just
Being
Want
Burns
Story
Interested
Hard
Who
Ken
Creativity has to start somewhere, and we are true believers in the power of bracing, candid feedback, and the iterative process - reworking, reworking, and reworking again until a flawed story finds its through line or a hollow character finds its soul.
Edwin Catmull
Character
Soul
Creativity
Feedback
Somewhere
Power
Finds
Through
True
True Believers
Until
Line
Candid
Process
Story
Again
Flawed
Hollow
Believers
Start
Linear narrative is an artfully-directed telling of a story, where the lighting and the sound is all for a very clear purpose. You're not just wandering around in the world.
Edwin Catmull
You
World
Telling
Purpose
Clear
Lighting
Around
Narrative
Sound
Linear
Very
Just
Wandering
Where
Story
Every Pixar movie has its own rules that viewers have to accept, understand, and enjoy understanding. The voices of the toys in the 'Toy Story' films, for example, are never audible to humans.
Edwin Catmull
Example
Understanding
Own
Enjoy
Every
Films
Rules
Voices
Never
For Example
Toy
Toys
Accept
Understand
Movie
Pixar
Story
Viewers
Humans
For me, the work we did to turn around 'Toy Story 2' was the defining moment in Pixar's history.
Edwin Catmull
Work
Me
History
Defining
Defining Moment
Toy
Around
Did
Pixar
Story
Turn
Moment
Some people say I appeared on the Phil Donahue show to tell 'my' sex change story but I've never appeared on his show for any reason... not even as a member of the studio audience.
Eileen Davidson
Change
People
Sex
Some People
Say
Member
Tell
People Say
Some
Never
Studio
Audience
His
Any
Story
Show
Reason
Even
Appeared
Phil
I'm very interested in soldier recovery projects and in Bradley Manning's story, the army intelligence officer who's being held as a detainee and is going to trial for crimes of treason.
Eion Bailey
Army
Intelligence
Crimes
Soldier
Projects
Trial
Recovery
Very
Officer
Going
Being
Story
Interested
Held
Treason
I realized that conventional views of Christian faith that I'd heard when I was growing up were simply made up - and I realized that many parts of the story of the early Christian movement had been left out.
Elaine Pagels
Faith
Made
Christian
Out
Had
Simply
Parts
Were
Been
Heard
Left
Up
Movement
Conventional
Story
Realized
Views
Many
Growing
Growing Up
Christian Faith
Early
We use the word 'synoptic' to talk about Matthew, Mark, and Luke, and it really means 'seeing together,' because they all have a similar perspective. Matthew and Luke - whoever wrote those Gospels - used Mark as a focus and as a basic story. So all of them have a lot in common.
Elaine Pagels
Together
Word
Perspective
Focus
Mark
Those
Seeing
About
Similar
Talk
Wrote
Because
Gospels
Lot
Matthew
Common
Story
Them
Really
Means
Use
Used
Whoever
Luke
Basic
There are some kinds of Christianity that insist you have to believe literally in doctrine. The Gnostic gospels open out the complexity and multiplicity of approaches to this. If you think the story of the virgin birth is mistranslated, for instance, it doesn't mean you have to throw out the whole thing.
Elaine Pagels
You
Insist
Believe
Think
Christianity
Birth
Approaches
Complexity
Out
Kinds
Some
Throw
Open
Instance
Doctrine
Gospels
Literally
Story
Mean
Whole
Multiplicity
Thing
I really wanted to write an adventure story, a murder-mystery that was set during the gold-rush years in New Zealand.
Eleanor Catton
Write
Adventure
New
Years
Wanted
New Zealand
Story
Really
Zealand
Set
Rather than saying people aren't interested when things don't take off, you should take it on yourself to say, 'I'm not doing a great job of telling the story in a way that makes it interesting.'
Eli Pariser
Saying
Great
You
Yourself
People
Job
Way
Say
Telling
Great Job
Rather
Take
Makes
Doing
Off
Than
Story
Interested
Interesting
Should
Things
'Cabin Fever' was very much inspired by 'The Thing.' It's really a perfect guy's horror movie: There's no love story, it's just straight-up horror. And it's so well-done. It moves at a slow pace, but it's really terrific.
Eli Roth
Love
Slow
Love Story
No Love
Guy
Horror
Horror Movie
Perfect
Inspired
Cabin
Terrific
Very
Fever
Just
Moves
Movie
Pace
Story
Much
Really
Thing
I think you should make movies as long as the story dictates.
Eli Roth
You
Long
Think
Make
Dictates
Story
Movies
Should
I love music. I love creating, so I just get inspired with whatever mood I'm in. Whatever the story dictates, that's where my mind goes.
Elias
Love
Music
Mind
Whatever
Mood
Inspired
Dictates
Get
Goes
Just
Where
Story
Creating
Even in novels where the love relationship isn't the focus, I feel like it's often there, and the background is some barometer of whether this is a happy or sad story or whether this is a successful or unsuccessful life.
Elif Batuman
Sad
Life
Love
Relationship
Happy
Focus
Background
Some
Sad Story
Feel
Unsuccessful
Like
Often
Where
Story
Whether
Successful
Barometer
Even
Novels
If there is no love between the author and the story, there is no love between the reader and the story.
Elif Safak
Love
No Love
Between
Reader
Author
Story
My dream role? I think to play Sammy Davis Jr. and his life story.
Elijah Kelley
Life
Think
Dream
Life Story
Davis
His
Role
Story
Play
The only reason ever to make a sequel is to spend more time with the characters that people love: to tell more of their story.
Elizabeth Banks
Love
Time
People
Spend
Tell
Characters
More
Only
Make
Story
Sequel
Reason
Ever
I think conflict is one of the things that makes for a good story.
Elizabeth Berg
Good
Conflict
Think
One Of The Things
Good Story
Makes
Story
Things
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