Stories Quotes

Don't get me wrong, hard and soft fantasy stories can both be good. But you need to know which camp you're in. I'm into realism. I'm a hard fantasy guy.

All stories are true," Skarpi said. "But this one really happened, if that's what you mean.

All the truth in the world is held in stories.

That's all that really matters in the end. Stories.

I think you have to pick and choose what is most important to tell the story.

Stories happen only to those who are able to tell them, someone once said. In the same way, perhaps, experiences present themselves only to those who are able to have them.

As long as there's one person to believe it, there's no story that can't be true.

The best filmmakers, I think, have always had very narrow frameworks for their stories, and then they can go deeply, rather than skimming the surface.

Stories surge up out of nowhere, and if they feel compelling, you follow them. You let them unfold inside you and see where they are going to lead.

I see myself as anybody, as everybody; I'm not just telling the story of my life to give the reader a picture of who I am.

When I think of Tokyo Story, yeah, it is like a novella. That doesn't mean it's not great. Some of my favorite Tolstoy works are his novellas.

Stories without endings can do nothing but go on forever, and to be caught in one means that you must die before your part in it is played out.

But lost chances are as much a part of life as chances taken, and a story cannot dwell on what might have been.

Having made films, I know very well that the scope of the average 90- to 120-minute movie is about the same narrative heft as a long short story or a novella.

I don't think about the stories so much, as the characters themselves. They live on, and they are almost as real as I am.

Every historical moment needs the stories to be told about it.

My dad fought in Korea. It was one of the first stories I remember hearing about.

I really like telling stories. When I was a kid, I wanted to write songs. In quite a fundamental, gratifying, childish way, I enjoy the doing of telling a story.

I realized that this story [Shelter] is all about family, family loss, and how it influences you day to day life.

I wanted to know as the director how the actors wanted to tell this story I wanted to know what they thought.

Stories turn anonymous strangers into people who matter.

Because of empathy, stories of the suffering of one person could lead us into a war that could kill millions of people.

Scientists have no agreed theory of the origin of life - plenty of scenarios, conjectures and just-so stories, but nothing with solid experimental support.

In the frantic search for an elusive 'cure,' few researchers stand back and ask a very basic question: why does cancer exist? What is its place in the grand story of life?

I can't impress enough upon people that if you tell an honest story that people relate to and people believe and invest in, you can do anything.

I wanted to do a political film that is as nonpartisan as can be, because I wanted to do a story that was American. I wanted to tell an American tragedy.

I don't like gossip stories. Facts are okay. But when gossips begin making items, that's something else again.

It's not like some movies where you're following a bunch of different stories you can cut around. There was nowhere to cut to. It's these guys. We're not cutting back to anybody else

I loved The Weird (one of the stories in it inspired Blackalley in Discourse).

My goal is to write stories that are connected, but not sequels in any meaningful sense. Like Howard's Conan tales or Leiber's Fahrrd & the Great Mauser stories.

I see a correlation between short stories and songs, because of their length and for what they're meant to evoke. Combine certain words with melodies and it all becomes very moving.

The films that I love are very straightforward stories, like really old-fashioned stuff.

I always run the stories by Capcom. They read the scripts and give their comments. I would never want to kill a character that they really want to use in the next game.

A lie hides the truth. A story tries to find it.

When I begin a story at my desk, the window to my back, the path is not there. As I start to walk, I make the path.

Books could be an incredible adventure. I stayed under my blanket and barely moved, and no one would have guessed how my mind raced and my heart soared with stories.

If it's a story that I feel is exciting and necessary, those are really motivating factors for me.

We need writers, we need to tell stories that include minority people, and then we won't have this discussion about Oscar so white.

Anne DeGrace is a gifted story teller and Far From Home contains some of her most intriguing characters. Thoroughly enjoyable.

What counts in a good story is the person inside. Keep it simple.

And I began to feel sorry for myself; for so many years, my drawer full of memories had held the same old stories.

The story of one person is the story of all of humanity.

It's always a good starting point to tell a story that has many layers.

Thankfully, readers send a lot of stuff. They see stories in their local newspaper. Or friends of mine email me, what they heard or saw. ... I'm very plugged in

All our heroes, all our great stories are about failure.

You could not tell a story like this. A story like this you could only feel.

It's nice when you can tell stories that brush up against the world we live in.

If you want to tell stories, be a writer, not a filmmaker.

I want to write stories that don't help you escape life, but embrace life.

I can't stop terrorism; I can't cure cancer. But I can put some stories out there in their own quiet way that talk about tolerance.