We wanted to write the first prequels as a story that anyone could pick up.
When you direct a film, everything should be about the story and nothing else.
So what I am always looking for is, I'm always looking for something that that person has told me that nobody else has told me. It is normally not an opinion, and it is normally not a philosophy. It's almost always a story. Because we all share similar philosophies, we all share similar opinions on a lot of different issues, but all of our stories are our own.
I was thinking about the difference in voice between the different characters. Each voice has to be unique. Hypothetically you should be able to read each chapter without the heading that tells you who is telling the story.
It was not the story of design or clothes, it was the fantasy of women that made me want to work in fashion.
If somebody accuses you in a story of being a crook, you can demand that they prove it. But if a comic says it and you protest, people say, 'What's the matter, you can't take a joke?
In fact, some reviewers have said that as they got into the story they forgot that the protagonist is a black woman. They were moved by the story - by the people as a whole - and not by the little things.
Behind every beautiful fur, there is a story. It is a bloody, barbaric story.
In the book, I tell the story of seeing old movies when I was young and acting out scenes at home. Now I get scripts, and I act them out.
The opera tells the story with all the built-in contradictions and from many different angles.
Most important to any fake story is a plausible, realistic edge with a satirical twist that is topical.
Because the meaning of a story does not lie on its surface, visible and self-defining, does not mean that meaning does not exist. Indeed, the ambiguity of meaning, its inner private quality, may well be part of the writer's vision.
In the information age, it's not just whose army wins, but whose story wins.
I've always felt you unearth story, like you're on an archeological dig.
People are the story they tell themselves.
I think any time you've got a story based on a true story, no matter how accurate it is, obviously it's still fictitious.
Everyone of us is a wonder. Everyone of us has a story.
I’ve been an investigative reporter for a long time, and almost always, the government says that [‘you can’t publish that because of the national security risk’] when you write a story. And then they can never back it up. They say that about everything. And it’s like the boy who cried wolf. It’s getting old.
I would definitely like to direct at some point. I've been very fortunate to work with some amazing talent and study them. But when the right time and the right story arrives, and I feel like I'm compelled to tell it, then I'll do that.
Born and raised in Paris, I am deeply attached to my city; we almost have half a century of love story together, where I have been truly completely faithful! The most beautiful city in the world is my city, yeepeeee!