“The thing that you learn in directing is that when you're on the floor, no matter how complex the shooting is...you have to remain absolutely sensitive to every nuance of the behavior of the people around you. Because, ultimately, if you don't keep in mind the overall humanity, then the machine takes over and suddenly all you have are technically fine shots, technically good performances. The story's being told, but something's lacking, something mysterious, indefinable.” PeopleIfsMindMatterStoriesHumanityFineBehaviorShotsMachinesPerformancesComplexesMysteriousShootingSensitiveLackingNuanceIndefinableLacking Something Author:Irvin Kershner
“Writers 'get started' the day they are born. The minds they bring into the world with them are the amazing machines their stories will come out of, and the more they feed into it, the richer those stories will be.” WorldMindStoriesBornMachines Author:Lois Duncan
“There is a story in the book Night Shift, called 'The Mangler,' about a laundry machine that takes on a sort of malignant life. I worked in a laundry for about a year and a half after I got out of college. It was the only job I could find to support my wife and our first child. There was a fellow there that had no hands or forearms. He simply had hooks. This is one of the things that they don't tell you about when you become management. You have to wear a tie. It was this fellow's tie that did him in.” YearsFirstsChildrenBookStoriesHandsJobsNightHalfSupportWifeCollegeMachinesManagementFellowsMy WifeTiesHookLaundryNight Shift Author:Stephen King
“I always thought that the movie had to be really raw, very edgy, that everything had to be super grounded and feel very real. If this was going to be a story about kids discovering time travel and building a time machine that we needed to believe that they really did it .” IfsFeelsBelieveRealStoriesKidsBuildingNeededMachinesBeing RealTime TravelDiscoveringGroundedEdgyTime Machine Author:Dean Israelite
“A short story is something that you can hold in your mind. You can really analyze how the entire thing works, like a machine” MindStoriesMachinesShort Story Author:Chuck Palahniuk
“Being exposed to the Ryan Murphy machine, it is very much a personal extension of him. So, if I can learn from that and tell longer stories that are quite personal, and balance that out with features, then that would be the ultimate dream.” IfsI CanStoriesDreamWould BeBalanceMachinesUltimateFeaturesExposedExtensionsMurphy Author:Alfonso Gomez-Rejon
“Oscar Pistorius is now infamous for reasons that I think everybody knows about, but when I hit on his story and put it in the book, what I found fascinating was a description, from one of the scientists who helped Pistorius, of what the Paralympics will become. Because they don't place any restriction on enhancements for athletes, in the very near future the Paralympics will bear a closer resemblance to NASCAR than to the traditional Olympics. There will be a human-machine melding that will result in crazy feats of athleticism.” ThinkingKnowsHumansBookReasonStoriesFoundResultsCrazyBearsMachinesScientistAthleteTraditionalFascinatingDescriptionOlympicsOscarsRestrictionFeatsResemblanceInfamousNascarEnhancementAthleticism Author:Ron Currie Jr.
“So if there was a way that I knew something about my character's desires or the things that they were resisting because I was saving it for some grand epiphany moment for my readers, I just feel like that's when you can feel the machine at work in a story. That's when you can feel the writer pulling the strings of the puppet.” IfsWayFeelsMomentsCharacterStoriesDesireReaderMachinesSavingStringsPullingPuppetsResistingEpiphany Author:Molly Antopol
“I began by doing book reviews on the typewriter and then went over to short stories on the machine, meanwhile sticking to pencil for poetry.” BookStoriesMachinesReviewsShort StoryPencilsTypewritersBook Review Author:Conrad Aiken
“You know, the process, I think, is the story. And it goes back, again, to what I said about chance and about radical contingency, the idea that all of this is this well-oiled machine that's been reared up and, like, really articulated and thought about.” ThinkingKnowsWellsSaidIdeasStoriesProcessChanceMachinesRadicalBack AgainContingencyWell Oiled Machines Author:Kehinde Wiley
“I'd just find a story in Canada and come and do it. Combine harvester banger - actually I've done that: banger racing up in Red Deer [in Alberta, for his 1998 doc series Extreme Machines].” DoneStoriesRedMachinesSeriesExtremesCanadaRacingDeerAlberta Author:Jeremy Clarkson
“We aren't natural statisticians. What we are is natural storytelling machines. And so what we do after we have the facts in hand is build a story to explain the facts.” FactsStoriesHandsNaturalMachinesStorytellingStatistician Author:Michael Lewis
“I kind of pride myself on coming onto things that are well-oiled machines and finding a way to bring what I bring and fit in, and raise it to another level if I can. And this [Code Black ] has been another one of those really fun success stories, much like Parks And Recreation, although obviously on the other side of the comedy/drama equation.” IfsWayWellsKindHas BeensI CanStoriesFunSidesBlackLevelsComedyPrideFitDramaFindingsMachinesRaisesCodeParksEquationsRecreationSuccess StoriesParks And RecreationWell Oiled Machines Author:Rob Lowe
“I remember on page one of The New York Times the article about Fred Leuchter. The heading was "Can Capital Punishment Be Humane" and it was the story about an electric chair repairman and execution machine designer. And then buried in the back of the paper was the fact that Fred Leuchter had also been involved in holocaust denial.” FactsStoriesRememberNew YorkInvolvedPaperPagesMachinesPunishmentDenialDesignerChairsBuriedArticlesHolocaustExecutionElectricHumaneNew York TimesHeadingsCapital PunishmentHolocaust DenialElectric Chair Author:Errol Morris
“The modern story begun, one might say, with Edgar Allan Poe, which proceeds inexorably, like a machine destined to accomplish its mission with the maximum economy of means.” MeanStoriesMightEconomyModernMachinesAccomplishMissionsDestinedMaximumAllan Poe Author:Julio Cortazar
“There are many other little refinements too, Mr. Bohlen. You'll see them all when you study the plans carefully. For example, there's a trick that nearly every writer uses, of inserting at least one long, obscure word into each story. This makes the reader think that the man is very wise and clever. So I have the machine do the same thing. There'll be a whole stack of long words stored away just for this purpose." Where?" In the 'word-memory' section," he said, epexegetically.” ThinkingMenLittlesLongSaidWholeStoriesUsePurposeMemoriesStudyWisePlansExampleReaderMachinesCleverTricksObscureSectionsRefinementVery WiseLong Words Book:Collected Stories Source: Collected Stories
“Ninth graders with machine guns: its hard to make that a happy story.” HardStoriesGunMachinesMachine GunsGone Series Author:Michael Grant
“This is a funny story. We'd asked the guards every day for cappuccino. You know, just as a joke. And they'd come in with their cups of coffee and stuff. And so I get here and I have a spot for a cappuccino machine, and it didn't work. So I don't have any cappuccino ... I didn't miss the cappuccino, I missed the idea of cappuccino.” KnowsIdeasStoriesStuffMissingJokesMachinesCoffeeSpotsCupsCoffee CupFunny StoryCappuccino Author:Martha Stewart