Stories Quotes
I simply want to tell the story of my experiments with truth...as my life consists of nothing but those experiments.
The story of the creation and similar things in it did not impress me very much, but on the contrary made me incline somewhat towards atheism.
My film is very simple: An Eastern European story full of black humor about things everyone can feel and understand.
There are a few really fantastic stories left, and that kind of gives you some inspiration to find even new ones.
I had stories that needed more space than the hour and a half or two hours a movie gives you.
I'm not against people just being funny or telling stories. I don't need to delve into the soft, dark core all the time. If it happens, it happens.
You never know what's going to happen when somebody endeavors to do a true crime story. It can be horribly misleading. It could be tabloidy.
Stick a shovel into the ground almost anywhere and some horrible thing or other will come to light. Good for trade, we thrive on bones; without them there'd be no stories.
The story as told in The Odyssey doesn't hold water. There are too many inconsistencies.
Kafka thought his stories were hilarious. We don't necessarily have that reaction to them, but he certainly laughed his head off every time he read them out loud.
Some of what we read in classical literature is not relative to our condition, but then many women novelists and poets have turned it upside down and told the stories from the other point of view.
I just want to keep working. I guess I gravitate towards stories that I like and directors that I want to work with, and I hope that it works out.
Hindered characters / seldom have mothers / in Irish stories, but they all have grandmothers.
If there is anything interesting about my story it's the fact that it's not unique at all. I feel that I have been through what almost everyone I know has - a slow and gradual maturation process.
I just want to put a feeling in all the music I make. It's a part of me. It's a story. I'm always and I'll always be working on it.
Rumors, stories... I'm used to them. I got my ribs removed, I was on 'The Wonder Years'... You know there's a different story every day.
The stories are most often about justice. In her stories, those who commit injustice, or act tyrannically, come to no good. They are punished.
Many stories are invented about me - too many stories; almost everyone uses me, and I'd say about 0.01 percent of the gossip is true.
I find it easier to play someone who is so far from me because you create someone - you build this person based on the story and the script, with the director.
I'm always 100% committed to a character, a story and a director, and with Michael Mann it was 1,000%. I don't know how to explain this.
I guess I'm drawn to stories of people whose physicality puts them on the outside of things in order to explore the ways in which an identity is formed around these prevailing attitudes.
The story has to flow from an unstructured, felt place, but then I have to bring my analytical brain to bear on issues of craft.
I can't tell stories to save my life. I like to have fun, and I go out and have a lot of fun. But I'm not really an entertainer that way. I'm much more shy.
I think that all stories - if you make movies about zombies and aliens - it has always to do with your personal story. If not directly, it is about your fears, your obsessions, things like that.
Hypertext is an idea. The Internet is a medium. They grow up beside each other, they influence each other, and their evolving relationship will probably provide a great story for future biographers.
The living Web unfolds in time, and as we see each daily revelation we experience its growth as a story.
Teacher: "If your daughter knew her spelling words as well as her Bible stories she'd get into Harvard." Me: "I'll settle for Heaven."
I've done a lot of tough stories over the years. I've done a lot of profiles over the years that have not always been, shall we say, helpful for the person who is being written about.
The stories I write are often literal to events that have happened or observations that I've made, and sometimes they're fantastical.
I write all the time. I do artwork that's part of a diary, and I write short stories to go with them pretty much every day.
When I was a kid, the book that I liked the most was 'Aesop's Fables.' There was a version of it that my father read stories to us kids out of. I liked the idea of the short story format.
A writer has many tools: eyes, ears, nose, sensations, thoughts feelings and imagination. The tools can construct a house of stories.
Listening is crucial for any novelist. Stories & ideas abound. We too often talk about ourselves & block out the richness others may offer.
Some of my favorite scenes aren't in the movie. Because you, at some point, realize that your responsibility as director is purely to the story. It's not to your pleasure.
Trying to find the story within the story was hard. Filmmaking is such a reductive process in a strange way and you keep whittling away to what is essential.
There are people who know Hillary Clinton who tell wonderful stories about her, how likable she is, how funny she is; 99 percent of American people don't - have never seen that side of her.
