With a mini series you can give the story a proper sense of pacing, a proper sense of closure. – Garth Ennis
When 5150 came out rock was king. Post Nirvana and Pearl Jam 1996 is a different story. – Gary Cherone
The audience wants to be attracted not by the critics, but by a great story. You must deliver to the audience emotion – and when I say emotion, I mean suspense, drama, love. – Dino De Laurentiis
In anything you write – in a short story, a poem – there has to be a counter-motion; it can’t go all in one direction. – Donald Hall
I believe that the story is the most important element of any medium whether it’s theater, film, TV. – Chad Lowe
There has to be the right pacing of images to tell the story. I’m always stunned at how little you can put in. – Chris Raschka
I rarely return to characters. My characters, at least most of them, are much more a part of that superorganism that is the story than separate and independent creatures. – Etgar Keret
There’s a crazy, false notion that audiences are not patient or will not watch a story, that you have to put in a scare every ten minutes. But I always thought that was insane. – Eli Roth
I wanted to make a black story about South Africa. Unfortunately, no producer in the United States would put one penny into a black story. – Euzhan Palcy
It’s important to begin a biography or any book or story with something to draw the reader in. – David A. Adler
The novelist has permission to do whatever she chooses to supercharge whatever’s interesting in her story. This is also known as freedom. – Darin Strauss
I think that all stories – if you make movies about zombies and aliens – it has always to do with your personal story. If not directly, it is about your fears, your obsessions, things like that. – Marjane Satrapi
In a lot of cases, as in Tom and Nicole’s case, the tabloids were about to break the story, so they said just let the news out. And they called organizations such as ours. – Mary Hart
If I just sit here, what am I going to do? I don’t have a trade. I don’t teach or anything. I just love to make up characters and gradually build a story around them. – Elmore Leonard
I began writing fiction because it was the only way to tell all the intricacies of a real-life spy story. – David Ignatius
Foreign investors like decisiveness; they like clarity. There isn’t any confusion about Ireland’s corporate tax rate: it is 12.5%. End of story. – Enda Kenny
I did a film called ‘Fort McCoy,’ based on a true story of one of the few internment camps during WWII that was actually in the United States. – Eric Stoltz
‘The Squickerwonkers’ was the story I wrote when I was on ‘The Hobbit.’ And I brought it to Comic-Con and sold out a thousand copies I had printed. – Evangeline Lilly
Novels are my favorite to write and read. I do like writing personal essays, too. I’m not really a short story writer, nor do I tend to gravitate to them as a reader. – Dani Shapiro
