Diane Nelson Quotes

I go out and look for a good story to tell and if I like it enough and I decide to direct it, I become dangerously involved in becoming a part of that story.

I always choose my projects for the script or what the director want to tell with that story. And if I like the story.

I don't think I'll ever be a producer who's into taking the meetings and fighting the big fights with studios. I really don't like that part. I'm much more interested in the material.

Because I work in television, I always knew that I loved working with writers. It's very collaborative. You're always in a room full of writers.

I depend on good editors and a good director.

I loved the material when I first read it, and the experience of making the film was a great one. So when we came around to complete the trilogy, I just signed on board without even reading the scripts because the experience of the first film was so good.

I like the story writing process. I usually use someone who has been trained for structure to take the story that I actually want, place those elements in the right places.

I love writing. I think writing and directing go hand in hand.

I will work with a director who has good material because at the end of the day, that's what counts.

I try to work on shows that I would want to watch.

I have a producing partner named Stephen Hamel, and we've been trying to generate material.

Basically, I see myself as a maker of things who knows how to support other makers of things. At the end of the day, I am just committed to helping put good stories out into the world in whatever role is appropriate and needed for that particular project.

I read as many scripts as I can and just find stuff that I think is interesting, find stories that I think are worth telling.

My background was producing and writing and performing in television when I started out, and I really missed that, that whole creative process that comes from sort of 'me' storytelling.

I work for ABC. If the thing that ABC is paying me for is storytelling - not to make sure that a costume is exactly right or all those other things - then it is up to me to find the most creative space possible so that that function of my job can happen.

Part of what I love about producing is to get to work with writers.

My creative team filters the scripts before they reach me and a few others. We evaluate them, ponder over the budget, and think of various possibilities to get the viewer excited.

Ultimately what I try to do is work on stories I love with people I admire, and sometimes they get made and sometimes they don't.

Part of the job is knowing how to use this medium in the most effective way for the story you're telling, so for me, to pick a genre I want to do is a little harder. I would say it's more about thinking, 'What genre will work for what kind of story?' And then, when all of that comes, I embrace it and run with it.

I feel like we always kept our core philosophy of making content that we would wanna watch, and there's definitely a different scale we are offering that at today.

When I was doing 'Baahubali 2,' the story was being discussed with many people. The story evolved over 9-10 months in that way.

WWE is so huge, and they have to crank out so many hours of television, so they don't have time to take the care and attention to detail for the entire roster.

I always believe that a good story will find its audience and that it will attract different kinds of elements of creative people who will make it more compelling.

The Duffer Brothers are so attentive to story and detail while being wildly respectful of me and what I bring to the process.

Sometimes... I'll just stand there... in the white room... and say stuff. I'm creating high-quality content.