Crime and legal stories, broadly speaking, are just where my interest happens to lie.
Personally, I believe in fiction because the stories I like are those with a beginning and an end.
I was attached to 'Sharp Objects' before 'Big Little Lies,' actually.
I'm not a huge fan of very plotty shows. I'm much more of a fan of character-driven stories.
If there’s a magic pony in the story, chances are I’ll read it.
Do people choose the art that inspires them — do they think it over, decide they might prefer the fabulous to the real? For me, it was those early readings of fairy tales that made me who I was as a reader and, later on, as a storyteller.
I don't have any specific criteria on doing a drama based on where and what country. If I like the storyline, I'll go for it.
For me, the driving emotion of selecting a film is that I just love that story. It may give a message, it may not give a message - that's fine. I just loved it.
It's true that I'm drawn to unusual stories. Normal roles don't really attract me.
One thing I want to say: I don't like victim stories and I don't write them.
I do like musicals, but I'm not so well-versed in them. I would rather tell stories that just so happen to have a song in them, like someone has a cabaret number.
I like to be entertained, not smothered with 'literary' riddles.
A surprising number [of novels] have been read aloud to me, and I like all if moderately good, and if they do not end unhappily-against which a law ought to be passed.
Not all Peter Greenaway's stuff is sequential, narrative story. Some of it is like an art installation and I'm not particularly interested in being in an art installation to be honest. I'm interested in the story.
If I like a particular character or story, I usually say yes to the film.
While my favorite book of short stories is Fredrick Brown's 'Nightmares and Geezenstacks,' my favorite single story is 'Sound of Thunder,' by Ray Bradbury.
Sick children, if not too shy to speak, will always express this wish. They invariably prefer a story to be told to them, rather than read to them.
I am not against acting in a Hindi film, but I will take it up only if the story is right.
I always loved strange stories like the Dr. Seuss stuff. 'Go, Dog. Go!' was one of my favorite stories - it still is. It's just such a bizarre yet true book. And I did well reading and writing as a kid throughout school. I think early on that's what made me realize what an advantage that is.
Some people could say, "I'd like something that's super dramatic and miserable and made me cry and made me sad forever" but that's not my taste.
The kind of stories I like often comes from debutant directors.
To hell with facts! We need stories!
I think that we're pattern-seeking animals, and what we like best is a story where everything fits together, where there's no puzzle pieces left over.
It doesn't matter to me whether I go back to outer space or not [while acting]. The job's the same and I don't have any sort of genre preferences. I'm looking for a good story and a good character, whether earthbound or not.
I'll take any story if it's good.
