“But everything written has style. The list of ingredients on the side of a cornflakes box has style. And everything literary has literary style. And style is integral to a work. How something is told correlates with - more - makes what's being told. A story is its style.” StoriesSidesWrittenStyleBoxesListsIngredientsLiterary Style Author:Ali Smith
“I love how you can shoot a movie in a month or two or three of four, and it's this encapsulated story that you box up and ship out into the world, and what it is, is what it is.” WorldTwoStoriesThreeFourMonthsBoxesShips Author:Steven Strait
“Explicit knowledge, conventionally delivered like pizza (neat boxes with toppings of concepts, theories, best practices and war stories), is consumed by the brain but not metabolized into action. The learning we call intuition, know-how and common sense gets into the blood stream through osmosis. It is shaped by social context.” KnowsWarStoriesActionSocialCommonBrainKnowledgePracticeKnow HowLearningBloodTheoryConceptsManagementBoxesIntuitionCommon SenseStreamsConsumedPizzaNeatExplicitToppingsWar StoriesBest PracticesOsmosis Book:The Power of Positive Deviance: How Unlikely Innovators Solve the World's Toughest Problems Source: The Power of Positive Deviance: How Unlikely Innovators Solve the World's Toughest Problems
“I really love `Serenity.' I'm really proud of it and excited to see it my guys on the big screen, bringing something new to it. But `Firefly' was a different animal, something I will regret losing until the day they put me in a box, because I did have a lot of good stories I wanted to tell.” DifferentStoriesBigsWantedGuyAnimalRegretProudLosingBoxesExcitedScreensSomething NewSerenityGood StoryFireflyBig ScreenDifferent Animals Author:Joss Whedon
“Now, the big box office successes are superhero stories. It seems there's a lowest common denominator mentality, in terms of movies that are almost purely visual, that anyone can understand anywhere in the world. Good robot, bad robot: they fight. You don't need to know anything apart from that. And then we can make toys that look like that robot - and sell those toys or video games.” KnowsWorldNeedsLooksStoriesBigsSeemsFightingGamesTermCommonOfficeSellsBoxesVideoVisualsMentalityToysLowestRobotsSuperheroBox OfficeCommon DenominatorLowest Common DenominatorBox Office Success Author:Terence Winter
“Boxing Helena was something that I think was pretty cool, but people judged it without even having seen it. It's not perfect, but I think for the story that we were trying to tell, it turned out pretty good. What it signified was really powerful to me: how society puts us in boxes one way or another.” PeopleThinkingWayTryingStoriesPerfectPowerfulBoxesOne WayBoxingJudgedNot PerfectReally Powerful Author:Sherilyn Fenn
“Live Free or Die Hard may work better for an audience that doesn't know much about the series is than it will for Die Hard die hards, who will be wondering who that impersonator is and what he did with the real John McClane. The original Die Hard came out of nowhere to blitz the 1988 summer box office. The fourth installment arrives with a weight of expectations that Atlas would have trouble shouldering and, when the dust settles in September, it's unlikely that Live Free or Die Hard will be one of this year's big success stories.” KnowsYearsMayRealHardStoriesBigsDiesWonderAudienceTroubleOfficeSummerExpectationsWeightOriginalsSeriesBoxesDustSettlingFourthSeptemberUnlikelyBox OfficeAtlasSuccess StoriesLive FreeBlitzImpersonators Author:James Berardinelli
“Your whole life and the story of your journey is the landscape picture on the front of the box of a 1,000 piece puzzle. The pieces are each a small sticky note that ends in mid-sentence. You simply need to figure out where each one starts and ends.” NeedsWritingEndsWholeStoriesPiecesJourneyFrontsFiguresNotesBoxesSentencesWhole LifeLandscapePuzzlesSticky Author:Ashly Lorenzana
“When I feel that I'm going to write a detective story, I buy a five pound box of chocolates and a ream of paper. When the candy is all gone and the paper all used up, I know that the book is long enough.” KnowsFeelsWritingLongBookEnoughStoriesUsedGoneFivePaperBoxesPoundsChocolateCandyDetectivesDetective StoriesBox Of Chocolates Author:Carolyn Wells