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Many Chinese criticize me not only on Baidu but on Facebook. Some say, do you think Chinese authorities were stupid enough not to realize you were a North Korean defector? If they read my book, they'd understand. I did my best to escape. I think it's all a miracle. It's not because Chinese policemen were stupid enough to believe my fake story.
Lee Hyeon-seo
Best
Me
You
Facebook
Book
Stupid
Believe
Think
Enough
Say
Criticize
Some
Miracle
Only
Policemen
Read
Because
Understand
Fake
Korean
Were
Escape
North
Authorities
Did
North Korean
Story
Chinese
Realize
Many
Here in South Korea, I'm continuing to learn English in order to boost my prospects. When North Korean defectors try to get a job to stabilize their lives, their lack of English is a handicap. It was the same story while I was living in China. It took an enormous amount of time and enthusiasm to learn Chinese.
Lee Hyeon-seo
Time
Try
Job
Enthusiasm
Living
Enormous
Took
Boost
Prospects
Learn
Korea
Korean
Continuing
South
South Korea
Handicap
North
Get
Same
North Korean
Stabilize
Lack
Same Story
Order
Story
While
China
Chinese
English
Lives
Amount
Here
My life is not only mine. I am telling the story of all North Korean people; it is my responsibility to tell it.
Lee Hyeon-seo
Life
People
Responsibility
My Life
Mine
Tell
Telling
Only
Am
Korean
North
North Korean
Story
I'm not sure if my story will become a movie. Some of my western friends sent my story to people they know in the movie industry. But one consistent response was there aren't any main western characters in my story, so it's unlikely to be made into a movie in English.
Lee Hyeon-seo
People
Will
Made
Become
Unlikely
Consistent
Response
Characters
Some
Main
Know
Industry
Sure
Western
Friends
Any
Movie
Movie Industry
Story
Sent
English
It's one of the things I love about my job: it's my job to help a director tell the story, to just be willing to help.
Lee Pace
Love
Director
Job
Just Be
Tell
Willing
One Of The Things
About
Just
Story
Help
Things
I really personalized the pressure to make a good 'Toy Story' film. It made me physically sick at the beginning. Literally, I wanted to throw up in the morning because I was just so racked with stress.
Lee Unkrich
Good
Morning
Me
Stress
Pressure
Made
Beginning
Sick
Physically
Throw
Toy
Make
Because
Up
Just
Wanted
Literally
Story
Personalized
Really
Racked
Film
When I was around 12 or so, I saw 'The Shining.' I just remember that being a turning point for me, where I started to think about the fact that there was a hand behind the film. That it wasn't just this magical story being told - there were actual people crafting these films, and they were works of art.
Lee Unkrich
Art
Me
People
Remember
Think
Films
Saw
About
Magical
Fact
Point
Around
Were
Shining
Hand
Crafting
Behind
Just
Being
Where
Story
Turning
Turning Point
Works
Film
Actual
Started
I didn't want to be the guy who screwed up 'Toy Story.'
Lee Unkrich
Guy
Toy
Up
Want
Screwed
Screwed-Up
Story
Who
People loved the first two 'Toy Story' films so much, and the last thing I wanted to do was make a disappointing third film.
Lee Unkrich
People
First
Films
Disappointing
Toy
Make
Wanted
Loved
Story
Much
Film
Thing
Last
Two
Third
I feel like my job as a storyteller and director is to create an experience where the audience forgets they're in a cinema and can get lost in the story. Things popping out of the screen call attention to the artifice of what you're doing, so I use 3D as more of a window into a world behind the screen.
Lee Unkrich
You
Director
Experience
World
Cinema
Job
Lost
Out
Window
More
Attention
Feel
Like
Call
Audience
Doing
Get
Artifice
Forgets
Behind
Screen
Where
Story
Storyteller
Create
Use
Popping
Things
When we were making 'Toy Story,' my grandmother was very ill, and she knew she was not going to make it. I went back to visit her, and there was a moment during that visit that I had to say goodbye, and I knew I'd never be seeing her again. I looked at her and knew that I was looking at her for the last time.
Lee Unkrich
Time
Looking
Back
Say
Visit
Seeing
Never
Had
Knew
Goodbye
Looked
Toy
She
Make
Making
Were
Very
Going
Story
Again
Grandmother
Ill
Moment
Her
Last
Last Time
We hope 'Toy Story 3' looks amazing but still retains the character design of the first film. I like to think it looks like 'Toy Story' would have looked back then had we had the skills and the technology.
Lee Unkrich
Hope
Character
Technology
Amazing
First
Design
Think
Back
Would
Had
Like
Looked
Toy
Looks
Still
Story
Then
Skills
Film
The story of the week is you have got to putt well to win the Masters and I haven't putted well.
Lee Westwood
You
Win
Week
Putt
Well
Masters
Got
Story
Main characters should grow and change during the course of a story.
Leigh Michaels
Change
Characters
Main
Course
Story
Should
Grow
A romance novel is more than just a story in which two people fall in love. It's a very specific form of genre fiction. Not every story with a horse and a ranch in it is a Western; not every story with a murder in it is a mystery; and not every book that includes a love story can be classified as a romance novel.
Leigh Michaels
Love
Book
People
Fall
Love Story
Every
Ranch
Classified
More
Horse
Mystery
Genre
Western
Very
Than
Just
Romance
Fiction
Form
Story
Which
Novel
Specific
Two
Two People
In a romance novel, the core story is the developing relationship between a man and a woman. The other events in the story line, though important, are secondary to that relationship.
Leigh Michaels
Relationship
Man
Woman
Events
Important
Other
Secondary
Though
Developing
Between
Line
Romance
Story
Novel
Core
Every now and again, something will pop into my head when I'm driving or I'm in the shower, you'll just get an image and it stays with you. It doesn't have to be much, it doesn't have to be a story, it could just be an image. But it won't leave your head and that's when you know you've got something.
Leigh Whannell
You
Will
Just Be
Every
Stays
Something
Could
Driving
Head
Know
Got
Leave
Get
Just
Story
Again
Much
Pop
Your
Shower
Now
Image
It's always an interesting experience with the 'Saw' films, when a sequel comes out that I didn't have anything to do with, creatively, because here's this idea, this story, and this character that I created for James Wan, but now it doesn't need me anymore.
Leigh Whannell
Character
Me
Experience
Films
Saw
Out
Idea
Because
Always
Anymore
James
Anything
Story
Interesting
Created
Sequel
Creatively
Now
Here
Need
I mean, I certainly wouldn't want to paint myself as, you know, the evangelist for practical effects or some sort of anti CG guy because it's really a tool. Like filmmaking is this toolbox and you use what's appropriate in relation to the story.
Leigh Whannell
Myself
You
Relation
Tool
Appropriate
Some
Guy
Like
Know
Practical
Sort
Because
Anti
Effects
Want
Story
Mean
Really
Use
Certainly
Paint
Evangelist
Filmmaking
Certain stories need the resources of a studio. If you're telling a story about a giant robot war in outer space, you're going to need the money and the resources most of the time to do it justice.
Leigh Whannell
War
Time
You
Justice
Money
Space
Robot
Resources
Giant
Telling
Outer
Outer Space
About
Studio
Most
Going
Stories
Story
Certain
Need
You might not have the biggest budget or resources or cast, but if you have a great story, people will latch onto it.
Leigh Whannell
Great
You
People
Will
Resources
Cast
Onto
Great Story
Budget
Biggest
Story
Might
I think repetition is the hardest thing to avoid with sequels, because you've told a story and now you're adding more story to the story.
Leigh Whannell
You
Think
Adding
More
Because
Repetition
The Hardest Thing
Story
Avoid
Sequels
Now
Hardest
Hardest Thing
Thing
As I was writing 'Insidious 3' I started to fall in love with the characters and the story. I became very possessive of it and I didn't want someone else to do it.
Leigh Whannell
Love
Writing
Fall
Else
Possessive
Characters
Insidious
Someone
Became
Very
Want
Story
Started
All fiction is based on truth - 'Madame Bovary' is based on a true story!
Leila Slimani
Truth
Madame
True
True Story
Fiction
Story
Based
No one touches me when I write my story, unless I hire you to or I allow you to.
Lemon Andersen
Me
You
Unless
Write
Allow
No-One
Hire
Story
What makes a story is how well it manages to connect with the reader, the visceral effect it has.
Len Wein
Visceral
Well
Reader
Makes
How
Effect
Story
Connect
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