My constant endeavour is to offer something new to the audience. Every movie I pick, including 'Loafer', which offers a strong mother sentiment, tries to give the audiences a sense of watching something different.
'House of Cards' opened some doors. I've been able to tackle some diverse stories and characters.
I think that 'Room 104' offered us an organic opportunity to tell all kinds of stories with all kinds of protagonists.
I only treat myself as an audience with each film, I enjoy different stories.
What one's goal should be is just to become a better writer and to tell different kinds of stories.
You have only so many chances to tell stories. I didn't want to be forever wedded to one form of storytelling when there are so many out there.
Nobody cooks using just one ingredient. Why would you write using just one flavor of story?
The world would be a very sad place if readers could only love one story.
In a regular soap, you do the routine stuff, but in a supernatural show, there are so much more to do and learn.
I'd like there to be consistently more women's storylines going on at the same time.
I wouldn't like to just do one story or one type of stories all the time.
I'm not going to be labeled a black filmmaker. I am not here to just tell black stories. I'm here to tell all kinds of stories, musicals and dramas.
What's nice is between 'Wolverine and the X-Men' and 'Thor,' I get to write two very different kinds of stories. Both of them really seem to scratch some itches for me.
If I can build a coalition of people who are interested in what I have to say and what I'm thinking, I hope they'll come with me if I want to go tell a story that doesn't have dinosaurs in it - which I plan to do.
There's no one out there like Quentin Tarantino. His films have a signature look, and they never just stick to the same kind of story.
We need to include more writers from different backgrounds and ethnicities. We need to see different experiences instead of the same people writing the same kinds of stories.
Ideally, I'd like every issue to include a diverse group of stories that meet the qualifications sketched above, but covering a wide range of specific matter and flavour.
Perhaps if I knew I would be stranded on an island with but one book, I would choose the Bible. For no religious reason whatsoever, but because of the varieties of stories, which might be useful as the days pass.
I like comedies, I like thrillers, I like love stories. Everything is beautiful; it depends if the film is good, who cares? Everything is interesting.
Everyone likes a bit of variety. I'm sure none of my readers only want to read about anti-heroes or villainous protagonists any more than they only want to read about square-jawed heroes doing the right thing. I just write characters than entertain me and hope they'll be ones that other people want to read about, too.
Television has embraced so much in terms of storytelling and in terms of a wide array of characters conveying stories from different points of view.
I think you can tell different types of stories within a 'Doctor Who' two-parter.
In television, we are fortunate because we get to try a lot of things; we get to take a lot of shots. It gives us a great opportunity to tell many different stories from diverse points of view.
If you don't spend the time you need on developing characters and finding stories, complicated stories, the audience gets tired because they think they're seeing the same thing again and again.
I have a reputation for doing superheroes, but I like all kinds of writing. In fact, hardly anybody knows this, but I've probably written as many humor stories as superhero stories.
