“"Comic book" has come to mean a specific genre, not a story form, in people's minds. So someone will call Die Hard "a comic-book movie," when it has nothing to do with comic books. I'd rather have comics be the vehicle by which stories are told.” PeopleMindMeanBookHardStoriesFormDiesComicGenreVehicleComic Book Author:Frank Miller
“Freed from the sublimated form which was the very token of its irreconcilable dreams - a form which is the style, the language in which the story is told - sexuality turns into a vehicle for the bestsellers of oppression. ... This society turns everything it touches into a potential source of progress and of exploitation, of drudgery and satisfaction, of freedom and of oppression. Sexuality is no exception.” StoriesDreamFormTurnsLanguageProgressStyleSourceSatisfactionSexualityOppressionExceptionVehicleExploitationTokensThis SocietyDrudgery Author:Herbert Marcuse
“The job of the screenplay is to identify and extract the essence of the story from the novel and reconfigure it for the screen, maintaining its essence in a different vehicle.” DifferentStoriesJobsNovelEssenceScreensVehicleMaintainingScreenplays Author:Barry Eisler
“The plot of a movie is its motor. It is not an accident that people call pictures 'vehicles' for stars. A vehicle has to move. A plotless story is like an expensive car with a wonderful body design, luxurious seats, upholstery, headlights (production, direction, cast) - and no motor under its hood. That is why it gets nowhere.” PeopleStoriesBodyMovingStarsWonderfulCarDesignCastsProductionsAccidentsMovieSeatsExpensivePlotVehicleMotorHoodLuxuriousHeadlightsUpholsteryExpensive Cars Book:Letters of Ayn Rand Source: Letters of Ayn Rand