Nicholas Sparks Quotes

I discovered that, in order to write a magnificent piece, you should shoot the images because once you are filming, you are writing the script in your mind.

I think my books come out very visual, which is an obvious consequence.

It might be more difficult because you haven't got a book or a prop, but for the most part I like to write unpaid... initially and my own stories.

We [with Neal Dodson and Corey Moosa] wanted to draw people in with a dialogue - whether it's a creative process or a social issue or innovation of some kind; whether it was how we told the stories or what stories we told. We produced some online videos.

Writing your own story around the same ideas is not plagiarism; at worst, it's being unoriginal.

There are only so many plots in the world. It's how they unfold that makes them interesting.

I really try to think cinematically, because that's how people read. They create a theater in their minds.

An idea you have might not be original. But by creating a novel out of that idea you can make it original.

Movies are movement. A comic-book is immobility. From one still picture to another, but no movement. You need to make the movement in your head. In the movies, you see the movement. It's different. What is the same is the mind of the creator.

With everything I've done from "Jackie Brown" on, I got really into really writing more prose in the - in what you're calling the stage directions, all right, and consequently my scripts have gotten bigger and bigger, and cut to "Kill Bill Volume 1 and 2."

You know what's it's changed is my appreciate for the art form of making cinema. I don't want to act as much as I want to tell stories. I want to be a part of the whole collective and pull all of the pieces together. That's what I love about directing.

All you have is the writer's imagination. You have a very limited time to take this imaginary person and bring the details of their life, as you perceive them, to life. You attempt to do to that as fully and as vibrantly as you can. It's depressing to read how much you've failed. And it's not even particularly instructive or necessary to read how you succeeded because in the end don't you have to judge that?

I felt like I was a writer, and I just thought filmmaking was the best way for me to express that, because it allows me to embrace the visual world that I love. It's allows me to interact with people, to be more social than fiction or poetry, and it felt like the right way for me to tell the stories that felt pressing to me.

Directing is one of my favourite things to do because I love telling stories and I love working with the individual artists and it's something that I really missed.

What's interesting about writing is the invention, the creative thing. Writing about myself is a yawn.

I don't know when I made that active decision to be a writer or to try to write, but I know I always liked storytelling.

I'm always cribbing from real life. I'm not a very creative filmmaker.

Directing made me realise what I do as an actor that's extraneous, it focuses your mind on story, story, story.

I've always known that I've wanted to write, but I always saw myself doing that in the context of something other than film, so it was a really beautiful and kind of perfect moment in my life when I realized that I could combine this idea of wanting to write and tell my own stories with the environment I had grown up in and knew well - that I could make film as opposed to writing being a departure from what I knew.

The best character types are the ones you can be creative with and totally delve into...

The writing itself is the thing that generates stories for me.

I see myself much more as a writer/director or at least an aspiring writer/director - not necessarily in film.

People say to me, "You make fantastic films" and I say, "No, I make documentaries.

A comic script is basically a love letter from you to your artist.

Though The Kite Runner was my first completed novel, I had been writing on and off for most of my life, primarily short stories, and primarily for myself.