I like stories that grow, that have unpredictable layers. As opposed to Hollywood movies that start out with a lot of shock and noise and peter out into an unconvincing cliche.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
I like stories that have a social impact and social attributes to them. That's the whole reason we make films: to broaden our limited view of things and to see how life is evolving elsewhere.
The stories that I like to tell and the movies I like are always grounded in the emotional arc of the characters.
I was born into a world in which the most compelling stories are through film. But that wasn't always the case. Everything changes; everything evolves.
I like movies about longing and desperation, and dark and light things, stories about people struggling to raise children, and to have relationships and be intimate with each other.
I like stories with a collision of disparate tones. Look at 'Shameless' or 'House of Lies'. They go from big, silly, and comedic to very real dramatic moments in the wink of an eye.
I love the kind of movies I watched when I was a kid. But, I also love telling great stories.
I love my stories being multi-layered, and coming at it from different angles, so that you don't understand the film's true emotional motivation until the very end.
I like very human stories that venture into sci-fi or the supernatural or areas that I think occupy a lot of space in our collective memory for the films that we loved as children.
I tend to favour films that have multiple plot and story lines, multiple characters and ensemble pieces.
The films that I love are very straightforward stories, like really old-fashioned stuff.