I think I approached 'Captain Phillips' as I would any project. I always try to understand the story, characters, and themes as deeply as possible and then work as hard as I can to make those things come to life.
Christopher Rouse
LifeWorkStoryThinkI CanTry
I'm not a writer. I'm not smart. I couldn't possibly even write my own story.
Zoey Deutch
SmartStoryMy OwnWriteOwnEven
I'd actually love to play Sonny in 'Dog Day Afternoon' now that it's being adapted for Broadway. People don't talk about that movie that much, but it's really a beautiful gay love story.
Max Greenfield
DogLoveBeautifulDayPeopleStory
I'm entirely interested in people, and also other creatures and beings, but especially in people, and I tend to read them by emotional field more than anything. So I have a special interest in what they're thinking and who they are and who's hiding behind those eyes and how did he get there, and what's the story, really?
Alice Walker
EyesPeopleStoryThinkingSpecial
I'm a novelist, editor, short story writer. I also teach, and I freelance sometimes as an arts consultant. Most of my books have been published by Warner Books, now known as Grand Central Books.
Nalo Hopkinson
StoryShortNowSometimesTeach
Jesus is absolutely at the centre of Western civilisation and part of my fascination with him is, why? What is it about this particular man and his story?
Simon Callow
ManStoryWhyHimAbsolutelyJesus
Being a magician taught me how powerful the element of surprise can be. In each book, I've tried to work that in - an unexpected twist in a story that reveals an insight, a counter intuitive study that turns your beliefs upside-down.
Adam Grant
WorkMeBookStorySurpriseInsight
I've always loved short stories. Even before I was a writer, I was reading short stories - there were certain writers where I just felt like they could do in a short story what so many writers needed a whole novel to do, and that was really inspiring to me.
Molly Antopol
MeReadingStoryLovedShortAlways
I would rather read a poorly structured story that has fresh ideas than a tightly structured one with cliches.
Douglas Wood
IdeasStoryFreshWouldRatherThan
I look for individuality in the artisans I work with for CoutureLab; a loving relationship with the product and care in the construction, along with the story behind it, make couture desirable to consumers looking for something that cannot be mass-produced.
Carmen Busquets
WorkRelationshipConstructionStory
You don't want to write the same story again, but people are like 'We want the same story but different.' Well, how do you do that?
Andrew Shaffer
PeopleStoryYouWantWriteSame
Every person I see has a story to tell.
Bradley Walsh
StoryPersonSeeTellI SeeEvery
There are many ways to go about a story. And if you give yourself some formal constraints, it just makes the job so much - maybe 'easier' isn't the right word, but because you know your boundaries, you can just play within those boundaries much more, so it's much more fun to do.
Samantha Harvey
JobYourselfFunStoryYouPlay
Somalia is an important story in the world, and it needed to be told.
Amanda Lindhout
WorldStoryImportantSomaliaNeeded
For me to do a story, something has to happen to someone. It's a story in the way you learn what a story is in third grade, where there is a person, and things happen to them, and then something big happens, and they realize something new.
Ira Glass
MeStoryLearnSomeoneYouPerson
Purchasing a story in order to bury it is a practice that many in the tabloid industry call 'catch and kill.'
Ronan Farrow
PracticeStoryOrderIndustryCatch
Any show I'm working on, I want the stories to always be about something, and to have the potential to be emotional. That's the kind of story that I like.
Jason Katims
StoryPotentialWantKindEmotional
Filming a story set in a war zone in the '60s was such a treat, as it gave me so much scope to dive into.
Jessie Buckley
WarMeTreatStoryDiveZone
Every great story leaves you questioning. If all of the questions are answered, and everything is resolved, it's boring. There's nothing to talk about afterwards.
Chris Zylka
GreatStoryQuestionsYouBoring
Story was that human civilization started to develop with first social network. Emerged where population concentration was high. Helped propel to where we are now. Facebook is next step of creating a huge human brain to embrace hundreds of million, possibly billions of people.
Yuri Milner
StepPeopleBrainStoryCreating
I write as well as I can. I'm a journalist at heart, so it's the story that matters.
Robert Harris
HeartStoryI CanMattersWrite
Food for us comes from our relatives, whether they have wings or fins or roots. That is how we consider food. Food has a culture. It has a history. It has a story. It has relationships.
Winona LaDuke
HistoryFoodCultureRootsStoryUs
As a writer, you must know what promise your story or novel makes. Your reader will know.
Nancy Kress
StoryYouKnowWillMustPromise
I think that the joke and the ghost story both have a similar set up in that you kind of set something up and pay it off with a laugh or a scare.
Simon Pegg
StoryThinkLaughYouKindPay
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