Behind the scenes Quote by Mark Boal

I want my story to help others see what's extraordinary in themselves.

— Kyle Carpenter

I'm really interested in real people in extraordinary situations. The detail and reality to that.

— Doug Liman

I'm drawn to stories about ordinary people who get tangled up in an extraordinary event or idea or emotion. I'm not saying I don't…

— Sophie Okonedo

For me, as a documentary filmmaker, I'm interested in telling stories of real people whose experiences tell us something about ourselves or our history,…

— Kristi Jacobson

I really like writing from real-life experiences. Audiences seem to prefer the stuff I couldn't have made up.

— Rebel Wilson

Increasingly, there are those of us who write from outside the center, and those are the writers that I'm most interested in because they…

— Aminatta Forna

It feels amazing to work with writers that write really well.

— Giancarlo Esposito

I've always been interested in writing from the perspective of an outsider.

— Isaac Marion

I think most serious writers, certainly in the modern period, use their own lives or the lives of people close to them or lives…

— Chaim Potok

I've always written for actors, and if you want to write for good actors, you have to write parts that are surprising, that are…

— Peter Hedges

I'm really interested in the extraordinary found in the normal. Hopefully, my books don't take you to an entirely different place but make you…

— Mark Haddon

I just want to keep writing characters who are interesting and complicated people and interesting roles for women, in TV or film or in…

— Elizabeth Meriwether