When you have really good writing, you're compelled by the actors who are in it, and you may think it's the actors or the design or the filmmaking of it, but then you're like, 'Well, the base is a really rich story that these guys have created.'
I never was the story. The story was the story. Period.
These scenes deal with what happened before Hannibal Lecter was captured for the first time.
I'm a fan of creative writing and telling stories.
While Poe and the Symbolists were exploring the irrational in literature, Freud had begun to explore the resonant figure/ground double-plot of the conscious and unconscious.
A novel is both a story and a piece of writing. A movie is a story and a piece of filmmaking.
When I write my novels I don't really have a huge plan beforehand; I don't have the whole plot and architecture, so the story is sort of discovered as I write it.
Plot is no more than footprints left in the snow after your characters have run by on their way to incredible destinations.
To me, the AMC brand is great storytelling - they call it slow-burn storytelling.
Storytelling is about two things; it's about character and plot.
'Macbeth' is an amazing story.
Writing is the life blood of everything in Hollywood. Without writers, there are no scripts, no acting work.
I'd like to be in anything that tells a good story and has an interesting character.
I love to tell stories. It's a delight for me.
The way the films look will never entertain an audience alone. It has to be in the service of a good story with great characters.
Character is plot, and casting is character.
Without a good story, a franchise won't work.
Any story that I can consider worth telling is one that you could tell in words.
If I'm going to say anything about John Edwards in the future, I'll just wish he had been killed in a terrorist assassination plot.
If the script is not good, the film will not work.
I went back to the notion of story, which is always a good thing to have if you're trying to get people to pay attention to a book and pick up information along the way.
What a good novelist does with a throwaway that serves no fictional purpose is throw it away.
In making up stories, as in reading stories, I could create a contained world in which an experience is shared in its entirety.
It's no sin to tell a good story.
In a drama, you generally have to be very faithful to the script and the storyline, and it all has to fit together, and it's weighty and serious.
