"Because some stories end, but old stories go on, and you gotta dance to the music if you want to stay ahead"
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"People wanted the world to be a story, because stories had to sound right and they had to make sense. People wanted the world to make sense."
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"And all the stories had, somewhere, the witch. The wicked old witch. And Tiffany had thought: Where's the evidence?"
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"When I decided to make my version of Poe's stories, I wanted to respect the original material or to at least get closer to what his stories are really about. Most other adaptations I've seen sort of follow the story but they never satisfy me as an audience member or as a reader."
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"You either have an imaginative mind or you don't. All of my writing is God-given. I don't write my stories - they write themselves."
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"You let the story cool off and then, instead of rewriting it, you relive it."
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"All my stories are webs of style and none seems at first blush to contain much kinetic matter."
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"The way Shakespeare wrote Fallstaff is with a heightened language and everything. That's the genuis of having Ken Branagh here as well. Shakespeare doesn't require you to have a doctorate in his language or whatever to understand him. It just has to be directed and played right. It's all about scale and presence and getting these huge, epic stories across."
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"There's not a lot of direct back story but you do get to see them playing around each other a lot."
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"Deirdre Maddon has an extraordinary, almost celestial way of telling a story. There are so many great writers now - although I also want to go back and read all of Dickens again."
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"Every work coming from the creator is about getting the demons out, and each character in those stories had a different personal crisis to get through."
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"The more I know about America, the better I'll be at performing American characters and American stories."
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"Journalism has a special, hallowed place for stories of its practitioners' persecution."
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"I'm terrified to ride a bike in a city - and I grew up riding bikes in the city. I've just heard enough stories - I have enough friends who've been hit by taxicabs and things."
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"I pray for meaning. I pray for the limits of reality to become clear. For a world – and a type of being – that makes sense. I pray for a life after death that is not like this life. I pray for the end of mystery. What would a life be like with all the mysteries solved? If there were no questions, there’d be no stories. If there were no stories, there’d be no language. If there was no language there’d be no . . . What?"
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"I think about stories and their logic and wonder if there can be any such thing as simply "there is a book."
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"If something wants to be a story, it will be."
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"When you hire that first person, then you're a boss. You've got performance reviews. You've got complaints about not making enough money. You've got people who are just going to sell your story to the tabloids."
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"You know the stories of a woman saying to Churchill, 'Sir, you're drunk,' and he said to her, 'And you're ugly, but in the morning I'll be sober.' I was really excited to do that scene, but I did get slapped."
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"You just have to go with a good story and a script that you like and people that you like to work with."
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