Neverending Story' was one movie I did see when I was a kid. On the little island I grew up on, they put up a sheet in the town hall.
I think the most experimental way to a film is to tell the story the traditional way, because everyone is doing the other thing.
I see my role as a translator, telling the story that's in the book using the more visual language of film.
'Air' is very placeless - it's set in many different countries, and much of the story is about going places rather than being places. 'Air' is about travelers, and I'm a chronic traveler.
In 'Tree of Life,' the cinematography records a small story, a celebration of the courage of everyday life. But it does it so up close and so effortlessly that it has the effect of elevating the intimacy of the story to a grand scale.
Triple D is all about three things: Food, story and character.
The story of a passionate woman in a stale marriage is as old as Helen of Troy.
The story of Ilium, the ancient city of Troy, has always gripped me.
Part of the story of 'Ghosts of Ascalon' is how they got to that tentative truce where you can find humans and charr working together.
'50/50' is a comedy. I shouldn't say it's a buddy comedy because it's not farcical, and it's based on a true story, but it's viewing that experience through a very truthful lens of humour.
The architecture of a story can be a little bit different if it's a true story.
You don't have to have a true story to make a true story movie.
My conception of it was that in a normal film you have a story with different movements that program, develop, go a little bit off the trunk, come back, and end.
For whatever reason, Trump likes my story, likes what I've done. He trusts me.
I don't ever want anything to come in the way of me truthfully telling a story.
I wanted to write a story set in the Lovecraftian universe that didn't gloss over the uglier implications of his worldview.
There are secrets at the heart of every story; there is something that must be uncovered or discovered, both by the reader and by the characters.
Plot-wise, there's nothing particularly groundbreaking about 'Scalped.' It starts off as something we've seen plenty of times before: the story of an undercover FBI agent infiltrating a criminal organization and the story of the guy at the head of that organization. The twist was always the setting: a modern-day Native American reservation.
To say that I am organized is an understatement, but my car tells a different story.
The longer the president goes without telling his side of the story, the more unease there will be in the public.
