#story

I find it easier to play someone who is so far from me because you create someone - you build this person based on the story and the script, with the director. ↗

— Marion Cotillard

#because #build #create #director #easier

History is the record of an encounter between character and circumstances. ↗

— Donald Creighton

#character #circumstances #encounter #history #record

I am totally fascinated by people and our history as I understand and continue to explore it. People have so much to give and so far to go and yet we have given and gone a great distance. It's really just interesting to ask: why not? And see where that takes me. ↗

— Nikki Giovanni

#ask #continue #distance #explore #far

Anybody who comes to the cinema is bringing they're whole sexual history, their literary history, their movie literacy, their culture, their language, their religion, whatever they've got. I can't possibly manipulate all of that, nor do I want to. ↗

— David Cronenberg

#bringing #cinema #comes #culture #got

I love Chicago. It's such a great town, and it's got great culture and great history, and it's not as extreme as LA or New York, and it's just- it's hard for me for work, because I don't live and work in the same place and that's tough. But I'm- I love it. ↗

— Joan Cusack

#chicago #culture #extreme #got #great

I find it very hard to sit down and create an idea or especially a new character on command. Usually my characters evolve by accident out of some story context. ↗

— John Kricfalusi

#character #characters #command #context #create

A director shouldn't get in the way of the movie, the story should. ↗

— Frank Darabont

#get #movie #should #story #way

Visual storytelling of one kind or another has been around since cavemen were drawing on the walls. ↗

— Frank Darabont

#around #been #drawing #kind #since

A boy's story is the best that is ever told. ↗

— Charles Dickens

#boy #ever #story #told

It will not do to investigate the subject of religion too closely, as it is apt to lead to infidelity. ↗