#stories

Most reporters who come to me get their stories directly from press releases. Very few do what one would consider to be their professional duty. ↗

— Joey Skaggs

#consider #directly #duty #few #get

Writing is hard work. Generating stories that catch people's attention and holding it are very difficult. ↗

— David Ogden Stiers

#catch #difficult #generating #hard #hard work

Film is our literature, so we should tell stories that are apropos of our culture, in that we can learn something about ourselves. ↗

— David Strathairn

#culture #film #learn #literature #our

Salary stories are intrusive. Do you ask your neighbour what they earn for their job? ↗

— Nicole Kidman

#earn #intrusive #job #neighbour #salary

I invented the psychological histories and the relationship between Jack and Susan Stanton. I didn't know anything about the Clintons. I don't know more about the Clintons' marriage than you do. ↗

— Joe Klein

#anything #between #histories #i #invented

But to do it professionally is a quantum leap difference and my father had to be persuaded by these kind of Ivy League professors that I should go to the Yale Drama School, another one of the stories in there. ↗

— Robert Klein

#difference #drama #drama school #father #go

I was fortunate that I was at newspapers for eight years, where I wrote at least five or six stories every week. You get used to interviewing lots of different people about a lot of different things. And they aren't things you know about until you do the story. ↗

— Chuck Klosterman

#different #different people #different things #eight #every

All stories should have some honesty and truth in them, otherwise you're just playing about. ↗

— Nigel Kneale

#honesty #just #otherwise #playing #should

It was so much fun to have the freedom to wander America, with no assignments. For 25 or 30 years I never had an assignment. These were all stories I wanted to do myself. ↗

— Charles Kuralt

#assignment #assignments #freedom #fun #had

I just want to be a part of great stories, whether I'm part of an amazing ensemble cast or I'm leading it or the antagonist or whatever. ↗

— Zoe Saldana

#antagonist #cast #ensemble #great #i