Marshall Curry Quotes

A good opening and a good ending make for a good film provide they come close together.

You can have the greatest characters in the world and write beautifully, but if nothing's happening, the story falls on its face pretty quickly.

In a film you only get two hours to do this big arc and so you have to pick and choose your moments carefully, but with television you get to take your time and just take it episode by episode and discover new things.

I have my ideas of what a good documentary is, but drama is a different animal because you're arranging everything.

Magazine stories, the best ones anyway, are generally a combination of three elements: access, narrative, and disclosure.

With prose you can incorporate more details, develop scenes, sustain the tension in a special way. Prose has its own speed.

I think you can do a lot with fiction, and in some cases you can say even more in fiction than you can in straight-up documentary journalism.

I'm a journalist, and I'm a filmmaker. I have an organization that's all about telling stories.

I think the film is beautifully realised. His legacy as a journalist was recorded - as it were - well, and certainly the important issues of the '50s - or even today - are delivered and presented to the audience in a rather honest and objective way.

I think the impulse to get to the heart of the story and to tell it well is in my genes.

That was all Rose, and Rose knew what she was doing. Her main thing was story.

As an actor, I think a mistake that any storyteller can make is to play the ending.

I try mainly to just focus on character and what my character's point of view is, with each person, and try to figure out story.

I'm very much about stories that are fast but character development that moves slow.

I actually think I'm probably more interested in structure than most people who write screenplays, because I think about it.

You know there's some great folks, great story telling at 'Dateline,' and I'm glad to be a part of it.

I'm always looking for a story.

My work as a screenwriter has influenced my fiction. Writing screenplays forces you to consider many elements regarding story structure and other narrative devices that can be used to enhance the infinitely more complex demands of a novel.

Narrative is so rich; it's given up so much.

When we read a story, we inhabit it. The covers of the book are like a roof and four walls. What is to happen next will take place within the four walls of the story. And this is possible because the story's voice makes everything its own.

I know a lot of people in the business recommend the many Story Structure seminars being offered here, but I point to them as the single biggest contributor to lousy scripts.

I like to read dramatic novels and I absolutely love magazines.

When I was in college, I did sort of want to be a journalist. Being an actor, you kind of have the same interest. You go into a story, and you tell it from your point of view for people who aren't there. That's what an actor does with a character. But the real life is more more interesting.

I never really considered writing something that was nonfiction.

News is the first rough draft of history.