Hard Quote by Karyn Kusama

I think it's such a challenge to tell a story, and I think, to be honest, the shorter, the clearer, the better.

— Ashley Williams

The great pleasure for me in writing short stories is the fierce, elegant challenge.

— Amy Bloom

Audience come with expectations, and our job is to engage them for two hours. We take efforts to make the story more interesting and…

— Vijay Sethupathi

I have come to understand that life is too complex and much too short to let amateurs direct the story. I would rather let…

— Steve Saint

It's always a challenge bringing a great story classic to the screen. Giving visual form to the characters and places that have only existed…

— Walt Disney

Short stories are wonderful and extremely challenging, and the joy of them, because it only takes me three or four months to write, I…

— Anthony Doerr

The opportunity to be able to tell stories to a massive audience is really incredible and this job couldn't be more satisfying. So, any…

— Olivia Wilde

I think the thing I had going for me is a good pedigree and joke-writing ability. But a good pedigree, for the audience, doesn't…

— Neal Brennan

I think it's much more natural as a writer to want to tell one story rather than lots of small stories that are half…

— Alice Lowe

Having made films, I know very well that the scope of the average 90- to 120-minute movie is about the same narrative heft as…

— Paul Auster

Nothing is too long or too short either if you have a true and interesting tale and what I call a "graphic" writing style…

— Charles Portis

I am of the opinion that even if my role is merely 10 minutes long, it needs to leave an impact on the audiences.

— Ananya Panday