“I think it's always a challenge when you're telling a story that people know. But hopefully, good storytelling - well, there's two things. One is, you definitely have to have surprises and changes so that people are - you keep them interested, you take them down roads that they didn't expect and give them suspense and surprise.” PeopleThinkingKnowsGivingWellsTwoStoriesChallengesSurpriseStorytellingHopefullySuspenseTwo ThingsDown The RoadGood Storytelling Author:Kimberly Peirce
“If you do really good storytelling, things that people also might anticipate and that they might have seen before - there's a reason we go back to stories that we love - so, even if there is a familiarity, if you can do it a different way and hopefully do it well enough, you actually feel the satisfaction of that anticipation given back to you.” PeopleIfsWayFeelsWellsDifferentReasonEnoughStoriesMightGivenCan DoSatisfactionStorytellingHopefullyDifferent WaysAnticipationYou Can Do ItFamiliarityAnticipateGood Storytelling Author:Kimberly Peirce
“I like violence because I like looking at it and I like understanding emotional and physical violence and how they work with one another... It's operating in all these levels of hopefully - Oedipus is one of my favorite stories, that's like falling down a well when you read that - so that would be the hope, that each thing causes the next.” WellsStoriesWould BeFallNextCausesUnderstandingLevelsViolenceEmotionalMy FavoriteHopefullyFalling DownOedipusPhysical Violence Author:Kimberly Peirce
