“Ghost stories always creep me out and weird me out. Those are always interesting to watch.” StoriesInterestingWatchesGhostCreepsGhost Stories Author:Jessica Szohr
“I don't think you can really make television based on what you think audiences want. You can only make stories that you like, because you have to watch it so many times.” ThinkingWantStoriesWatchesAudienceTelevision Author:Dick Wolf
“The great thing about having spent all this time on film sets is that I've been able to watch directors and how they work. I now know that this is what I want to do as well: to tell stories visually. But it's definitely my vision that I want to put across, nobody else's.” KnowsWantWellsStoriesAbleFilmVisionWatchesDirectorsGreat ThingsFilm Set Author:Catherine McCormack
“Ultimately people don't watch shows because of how realistic they are. They watch them because of the same dramatic elements that have always made stories interesting. And fundamentally if those elements don't work, no amount of reality is going to be enough to keep people watching a show.” PeopleIfsMadeEnoughStoriesShowsRealityInterestingWatchesAmountElementsDramaticRealistic Author:Michael Loceff
“New York is a city of conversations overheard, of people at the next restaurant table (micrometers away) checking your watch, of people reading the stories in your newspaper on the subway train.” PeopleStoriesAmericaReadingNextCitiesWatchesNew YorkConversationTablesTrainNewspapersRestaurantsSubway Author:Bill Geist
“If you tell the story emotionally in a truthful way, then you start naturally looking at the landscape and thinking "Wow, we have to watch out."” IfsThinkingWayStoriesWatchesLandscapeWowTruthful Author:Viggo Mortensen
“That's what a powerful story does. It creates a more intense experience of life for you to watch. That's what a good film does for me, anyway. That process, I enjoy. It just makes for entertaining characters and entertaining films.” DoeCharacterStoriesFilmProcessEnjoyPowerfulWatchesIntenseEntertainingGood Films Author:Sharlto Copley
“It has been obvious all along, to anyone paying attention, that the politicians shouting loudest about deficits are actually using deficit hysteria as a cover story for their real agenda, which is top-down class warfare. To put it in Romneyesque terms, it's all about finding an excuse to slash programs that help people who like to watch Nascar events, even while lavishing tax cuts on people who like to own Nascar teams.” PeopleHas BeensRealHelpingStoriesTermAttentionClassWatchesCuttingTeamEventsPoliticianTaxesFindingsProgramObviousExcusePay AttentionAgendasWarfareDeficitShoutingHysteriaTax CutsClass WarfareTop DownNascar Author:Paul Krugman
“When it comes to bullshit, you have to stand in awe of the all-time champion of false promises and exaggerated claims: religion... Religion easily has the greatest bullshit story ever told. Religion has actually convinced people that there's an invisible man living in the sky who watches everything you do.” PeopleMenStoriesReligionWatchesSkyPromiseClaimsConvincedInvisibleAll TimeChampionAweBullshitExaggeratedDiseasedFalse Promises Author:George Carlin
“One of the greatest sins in any story is false suspense. The kind of 'suspense' that disintegrates the moment you give your reader one second to think about it. And it's an easy trap to fall into, so watch carefully for it. If your story hinges on the question, 'Will Superman be pushed so far in his battle against Lex Luthor that he'll have to kill him?', or if your big cliffhanger moment is, 'Wow, is Spider-Man really dead this time?', then I understand Food Lion is hiring.” IfsThinkingMenGivingKindBookMomentsStoriesBigsFallEasySinWatchesReaderBattleComicSuspenseLionsWowTrapsComic BookSpidersHiringHingesSpider ManCliffhanger Author:Mark Waid
“I think, even a lot of people that make movies forget is that, in my mind, a movie should work with the sound off. You should be able to watch a movie without the sound and understand what's going on. That's your job, to build a series of chronological images that tell the story.” PeopleThinkingShouldMindStoriesAbleJobsSoundForgetWatchesSeries Author:Channing Tatum
“I enjoy doing autograph sessions because I'm a people-watcher. I'm the guy in the airport who likes to just sit and watch people go by. So I enjoy just meeting people and hearing their stories.” PeopleStoriesGuyEnjoyWatchesMeetingsHearingLikesAirportsSessionAutographsWatchers Author:Joey Logano
“When the story is good enough, people can watch something three times the length of an opera.” PeopleEnoughStoriesThreeWatchesLengthGood EnoughOperaThree Times Author:Kevin Spacey
“I used to just daydream all the time about being in movies, from the age of like, four onwards. I would sit down and watch movies with my father and my grandfather, and always pretended that I was in the stories.” StoriesAgeUsedFatherWatchesFourDown AndGrandfatherMy GrandfatherDaydreamingWatch Movie Author:Aneurin Barnard