One of my favourite memories of childhood was bedtime stories. My brother, father and myself would all pile into one bed with a stack of books and the fun would begin. Dad would animate the stories with an array of character voices and personal anecdotes. He was a fabulous story teller.
As we got older and deemed too old for bedtime stories, I shifted my focus to another form of story telling. I love to read books but I can never seem to recreate the colour my Dad added to his stories. A good movie on the other hand - made well - can be a story in all its technicolour glory.
A great script delivered by actors who become characters from another time and place can deliver that same satisfaction a child feels while listening to a bedtime story. This is why it is so important for a director to seriously consider the manner in which he tells his story. A story is neither bad nor good. It is the way it is told that makes the difference.
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