Story Concept Quotes

The idea for 'Conversations with Friends' - two college students who befriend a married couple - struck me at first as a concept for a short story. I started to write it under the title 'Melissa,' and eventually, it got too long.

Usually, when I'm rappin', I'm creating a big story or a concept song that sounds like a movie to me.

I should write a book. I've always wanted to write a book. I should write a book about kids who see dead people.

"A meteor hits planet Earth" - that's a story idea but that doesn't give me any indication of what the character is.

Somebody wrote a script around us, but Dustin Abraham came with the best one.

When I started thinking about 'Mr. Robot,' I thought about it as a movie, and I thought about the complete arc, and that is the one story I'm going to tell.

I'm working on something that's not yet novel-shaped but is something of a film-noir-flavored 'Alice in Wonderland.' It will also very likely be a single volume story and not the start of a series.

Though the concept of the show revolves around a love layer, 'Ek Duje Ke Vaaste' has a very unique storyline. It is not a typical love story, and I am glad to be a part of this show.

I find that most people know what a story is until they sit down to write one.

'Paycheck,' I thought, was a really, really good idea. I never got an opportunity, unfortunately, to read the novel, but I loved the idea of how to deal with intellectual properties. I just don't know that we necessarily got to the heart of that particular idea. I think it became more of a chase movie than anything else.

Naturally, no writer who's any good at all would sit down and put a sheet of paper in a typewriter and start typing a play unless he knew what he was writing about.

'The Searcher,' as the title suggests, is about someone in search of something, and I have always loved quest stories and so was drawn to writing one myself.

To do a 75-minute movie about SpongeBob wanting to make some jellyfish jelly would be a mistake, I think.

I knew I wanted to write about a nanny, but it was difficult for me to find a narrative rhythm.

I've always liked working on stories that combine people who are relatable with something insane.

In order to have a TV series, you have to have a good idea for the story.

I pitched Jay Hunt the opening scene (prime minister, middle of the night, he's woken up...). She paused, and then she laughed. She was very intrigued and all that, and then she said, "Does it have to be a pig?" So we went through various options: Could it be a supermarket frozen chicken? A giant wheel of cheese? A pig seemed just the right level of absurd, but then when he walks in and there's actually a pig there, it's awful.

Remember that 'plumber in space' is not such a bad setup for a story.

Even just reading "I Don't Feel at Home in This World Anymore,"I got a sense of the world and the story [Macon Blair] wanted to tell. And then I had a meeting with him and understood how he likes to work. I really trusted him from the beginning.

Audience members are only concerned about the story, the concept, the bells and whistles and the noise that a popular film starts to make even before it's popular. So audiences will not be drawn to the technology; they'll be drawn to the story. And I hope it always remains that way.

I would remake 'Club Paradise.' I thought the story was cool, the setting was great. Everything lined up, except I wrote it for Bill Murray and John Cleese.

I get attracted to projects because of the script or the idea and the basic character.

In the summer of 2010, I was working on a version of 'True Detective' that I was thinking might be my next novel, and it was told in these two first-person voices; Cohle and Hart's voices.

I wrote the book in my head when I was 6 years old.

I had a very specific idea of the personal nature of the story I wanted to tell, really changing the image and the perception of Kratos.