“The research period of a film is the most exciting part of the process, and filming is sometimes a letdown because when you're dealing with biopic material, the real thing is always much more intricate than the story told in the film.” RealSometimesStoriesFilmProcessMaterialsPeriodsResearchExcitingReal ThingsIntricateLetdowns Author:Alessandro Nivola
“I love learning about different dialects and I own all sorts of regional and time-period slang dictionaries. I often browse through relevant ones while writing a story. I also read a lot of diaries and oral histories.” WritingDifferentStoriesPeriodsRelevantDiariesDictionaryDialectSlangTime PeriodsOral History Author:Ron Rash
“I would love to do a period piece - in the 18th or 17th century. To me, it would be such an incredible challenge because of the way people carried themselves. There are so many incredible stories within those centuries - just the language and the way they carried themselves and what they were going through.” PeopleWayStoriesWould BeLanguageChallengesPiecesCenturyPeriodsIncredibles17th Century Author:Amy Smart
“Sports biography at its best. Rich in period detail, anecdote, and fresh perspective, Strong Boy paints both the good and the bad sides of success, as America's growing celebrity culture turned a simple Irish American gladiator into a national, in fact international hero. A very human story with profound parallels for our sports-obsessed culture today!” HumansFactsStoriesTodayAmericaCultureStrongSportsSidesSimpleBoysRichGrowingPerspectiveHeroPeriodsProfoundPaintInternationalDetailsObsessedBiographiesParallelsAnecdotesCelebrity Culture Author:Nigel Hamilton
“I try to get a feeling of what's going on in the story before I put it down on paper, but actually most of this breaking-in period is one long, fantastic daydream, in which I think about anything but the work at hand. I can't turn out slews of stuff each day. I wish I could. I seem to have some neurotic need to perfect each paragrapheach sentence, evenas I go along.” ThinkingNeedsWritingTryingLongI CanStoriesFeelingsHandsSeemsTurnsWishStuffPerfectPeriodsPaperSentencesFantasticEach DayNeuroticDaydreamingParagraph Author:William Styron
“As for comics, one has only to turn to the characteristic output of Marvel Comics, for the period from about 1961 to about 1975, to find not an expression of base and cynical impulses but of good, old-fashioned liberal humanism of a kind that may strike us today, God help us, as quaint, but which nevertheless appealed, in story after story, to ideals such as tolerance, technological optimism, and self-sacrifice for the benefit of others.” KindMaySelfHelpingStoriesTodayTurnsSacrificeExpressionPeriodsBenefitsIdealsOptimismHumanismStrikesToleranceImpulseCharacteristicsCynicalNeverthelessTechnologicalOld FashionedSelf SacrificeOutputGod HelpQuaintGod Help UsMarvel Comics Author:Michael Chabon
“Many writers-in-waiting spend a lot of time avoiding the work at hand. The most common way to avoid writing is by procrastination. This is the writer's greatest enemy. There is little to say about it except that once you decide to write every day, you must make yourself sit at the desk or table for the required period whether or not you are putting down words. Make yourself take the time even if the hours seem fruitless. Ideally, after a few days or weeks of being chained to the desk, you will submit to the story that must be told.” IfsWayWritingLittlesStoriesHandsSeemsWaitingHoursCommonEnemyWeekPeriodsTablesSubmitProcrastinationDesksAvoidingChained Book:This Year You Write Your Novel Source: This Year You Write Your Novel
“I see myself as a novelist, period. I mean, the material I work with is what is classified as science fiction and fantasy, and I really don't think about these things when I'm writing. I'm just thinking about telling a story and developing my characters.” ThinkingWritingMeanCharacterStoriesFictionFantasyMaterialsPeriodsScience FictionDevelopingNovelistsScience Fiction And Fantasy Author:Roger Zelazny
“Making this movie as a period piece about a period that was very recent in people's minds. I was in Taiwan [during the 1970s], so I hope I did all right. Otherwise, it could be the biggest embarrassment of my life. Also, the story is not linear, it's patchy, like a cubist painting, and there is always the possibility it will not hold together, it will fall apart. The tone is part satire, part serious drama, part tragedy, all mixed together, and it has to hit an emotional core. That's also very scary.” PeopleMindStoriesTogetherFallPiecesPossibilityEmotionalPaintingSeriousPeriodsDramaTragedyScaryCoreToneSatireFalling ApartEmbarrassmentLinearTaiwan Author:Ang Lee
“I deliberately, in a way, went for something that was a huge challenge and was a big period film. I was excited about the canvas on which I could tell the story as much as the story itself.” WayStoriesBigsFilmChallengesHugePeriodsExcitedCanvas Author:Sam Mendes
“When you get into a film, it is one story and one set development of a character, and you are able to delve into one character for a short period of time and discover everything about them.” CharacterStoriesAbleFilmDevelopmentPeriods Author:Alexander Gould
“Literature makes history come to life. It is maybe the most accurate depiction of history, especially literature that was written in the time period depicted in the story.” StoriesLiteratureWrittenPeriodsAccurateDepictionTime Periods Author:Amy Harmon
“At its very core the story of Easter has nothing to do with angelic announcements or empty tombs. It has nothing to do with time periods, whether three days, forty days, or fifty days. It has nothing to do with resuscitated bodies that appear and disappear or that finally exit this world in a heavenly ascension.” WorldStoriesBodyReligionThreeThis WorldPeriodsEmptyDisappearCoreFiftyHeavenlyFortyEasterTombsExitAngelicAnnouncementsAscensionTime Periods Book:Resurrection: Myth or Reality? Source: Resurrection: Myth or Reality?
“The lyrics to the single 'Survivor' are Destiny's Child's story, because we've been through a lot, ... We went through our drama with the members ... Any complications we've had in our 10-year period of time have made us closer and tighter and better.” YearsChildrenMadeStoriesDestinyPeriodsDramaMembersSurvivorComplication Author:Beyonce Knowles