Sarah Waters Quotes

There are a thousand weird untold stories in the Australian film industry, this has been one of them.

I personally tend to be drawn to stories that aren't paid much attention to, or stories that aren't on people's radar.

It's time for storytellers to tell the stories that have not had the privilege of being shown to the world, and the audience will be there.

There are a lot of people that never get their stories told.

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 bring me into worlds that I did not previously know. And that, as a writer, is what I try to create.

I wonder what it is that the people who criticize me for telling this story truly object to: is it that I have dared to tell the story? Or that the story turns out not to be the one they wanted to hear?

I had to find stories no one else was writing, so I got away from the quarterback and the coach. I'm still looking for stories no one else has written.

An obsession with untold stories is a source of energy.

Every rippling muscle is a book not read, a movie not seen, or a conversation not held.

Bangkok is infamously mired in lurid contradiction, but it's also a city of subtle and distorted moods that journalism and film have hitherto mostly failed to capture.

Fundamentally, one of the things I tend to migrate toward when I'm working is a story about people whose stories aren't told in theater.

The whole point of creating music for me is to give voice to things that aren't normally given voice to.

The beauty of the horror genre is that you can smuggle in these harder stories, and the genre comes with certain demands, but mostly you need to find the catharsis in whatever story you're telling. What may be seen as a deterrent for audiences in one genre suddenly becomes a virtue in another genre.

'Family Secrets' is thought provoking, well written, and remorselessly intelligent.

What I learned is that there are indeed some stories that are too true to tell, too revealing for the general population to metabolize. And too challenging to your reporter colleagues, whose turf or toes you might have tread upon.

There is this tradition, stretching back to Tacitus and Plutarch, that history belongs to the heroes, the emperors. But I grew up among simple people, and their stories just shattered me. It was painful that no one but me was listening to them.

The kind of stories I like often comes from debutant directors.

I love to give voice to things that are not very visible.

When podcasts are in charge there will be no wars, just ears. That will probably be our motto, but in Latin. In our podcastian future, we'll comprehend that each story has another angle, every case a contradictory piece of evidence.

I find most 'rules' about how to write a 'good story' confining, and I enjoy writing stories that don't look like stories at all on the surface.

I want to do journalism on journalists. I want to do the stories on stories that aren't being told.

Silence is deeply woven into the fabric of female experience.

I suppose the key for me is about opening up experiences and untold stories to audiences.

So many of the indie movies that get made are not about topics that touch millions and millions of people.

One of the things I have noticed about my novels is that they all concern people who can't quite bring themselves to tell the truth about their own lives... I've come to realise that this interest in damaged, untellable stories comes from my parents.