The most challenging and exciting aspect is the outline and formation of the plot points. This is the stage where the notion of the story begins to take shape, and I can see glimpses of what is to come. – Tony DiTerlizzi
Typically, when you sell your story rights to a movie production company, they can do whatever they want with it. The writer is typically not involved anymore. – Watt Key
Periodically, ‘The New York Times’ runs a business news story lamenting how few women still make it to the top in the Wall Street boys’ club. Could it be that women are choosing to be conscientious objectors in these wars of one against all? – Tina Brown
Elvis used to have parties at his house – and I’ve told this story a million times – but they weren’t really parties, because there was no chips or dip. Just Elvis and his boys watching TV, and him making funny comments, and everybody laughing at them. Is that a party? Not really. But that’s Hollywood. – Teri Garr
With this book, I truly hope to reach everyone that I don’t bump into on the street and share my story. – Teri Hatcher
My role is to just tell the highest degree of truth with every character and every story. From there, I have no clue whatsoever how things are going to turn out. – Sarah Shahi
The basic quality that any great story must have is a story that illustrates the human condition. – William Shatner
I love sci-fi, especially when it thrives on a thought-provoking story, rather than explosions. – William Mapother
My own books drive themselves. I know roughly where a book is going to end, but essentially the story develops under my fingers. It’s just a matter of joining the dots. – Terry Pratchett
I’m a magpie in my fiction, taking whatever looks shiny and curious to line the nest of my story. – Walter Kirn
I mean, any movie or story that makes you accept and be grateful for something about your life is doing something right. – Viggo Mortensen
‘The Irish Duke’ is a sequel to ‘The Decadent Duke’ about Lady Georgina Gordon who married the Duke of Bedford. ‘The Irish Duke’ tells the story of their daughter, Lady Louisa, who married James Hamilton, the powerful and wealthy Duke of Abercorn. – Virginia Henley
We have newsreaders behaving like actors, lowering their voices if it’s a sad story, as if we didn’t know it’s a sad story. There isn’t a single cool newsreader. – Tom Baker
I didn’t go to church, I didn’t go to synagogue; I went to temple, Hindu temple, where I prayed to my Hindu gods – whether or not I believe in it is another story. – Utkarsh Ambudkar
Every actor wants to do a love story, and courtesy T-Series, I got to do two back-to-back. – Yami Gautam
I know Charlie Kaufman really well, for instance. Charlie Kaufman starts a story, and he has no freaking idea where he’s going. None. Zero. And he doesn’t want to know, because there’s a little bit of death in that. – Stephen Gaghan
But, you know there’s a lot of westerns – not that they were bad – it’s just that they can be remade because they’re great stories that aren’t indelible in an audience’s mind when it comes to both the cast and the story. – Tom Selleck