I'm just drawn to something that has a good story…

I think I'm always drawn to a good story

— Jamie Campbell Bower

I think sometimes actors are drawn to good television because you have more time to sell it, you have more time to shape a…

— Jamie Dornan

Audiences want great story telling; it's why white people watch my show 'Black in America.' It's why black people watch 'Latina in America.' All…

— Soledad O'Brien

Once you come up with a premise, you have to work out how it all happened. It's a bit like coming up with a…

— Linwood Barclay

One thing, however, I must premise, that without the assistance of natural capacity, rules and precepts are of no efficacy.

— Quintilian

We subverted the entire premise of 'Westworld' in that our sympathies are meant to be with the robots, the hosts.

— Lisa Joy

Comedy Central wanted to do a show with me, I had a couple failures under my belt with them already, but they still wanted…

— Daniel Tosh

Good writing works from a simple premise: your experience is not yours alone, but in some sense a metaphor for everyone's.

— Dorianne Laux

It's always hard, but it's always fun to attack a premise that you think is interesting. It does take a few drafts for sure.

— Victor Levin

Fatalism is a false premise. What will be is not necessarily what must be.

— Pearl S. Buck

To be honest, the first time round, I didn't think 'Fame Academy' was the worst premise in the world. You got people on, and…

— Paolo Nutini

People who want to express themselves need to be given an opportunity. For me, it's a very fundamental premise: you break the law, you're…

— Bob Buckhorn

I don't really write jokes down. I tend to have a premise that I work out and test on stage.

— Adam DeVine

You know, we certainly have a great budget on the show, but the expansions to world of the show really arise because, and this…

— Jonathan Nolan

Pacifism as a mass movement aims to avoid suffering; pacifists often say that no cause is worth suffering or dying for. The ethos of…

— Adam Michnik