Stories Quotes

The fountain of youth is like the monkeys paw in the W. W. Jacobs story. It never ends well.

So I decided to make a film about our need to tell stories, to own our stories, to understand them, and to have them heard.

I remember the horror story that I told myself over and over again. I'm totally alone in my body. I'm totally alone in my head and nobody will ever see through my eyes. I'm just completely alone.

I tend to only be able to obsess about one thing at once, and become fully engaged in and only interested in that thing. But in the longer term, a lot of my stories also give birth to other stories.

I like the stories with the historical themes.

As far as the writing goes, I started telling stories as soon as I could talk, and started writing them down as soon as I could string words together.

People are interested in relevant stories. In big events. But I'm not interested in big things; I'm interested in the smaller details of life.

The old story is a story of measurement. And the New Story is to bring measurement and meaning together. You cannot measure meaning.

I always wanted to create a project that would allow me to think about cross cultural relationships and hybridization but did not want to use my personal story or standard tropes of multiculturalism.

I'm terrified to ride a bike in a city - and I grew up riding bikes in the city. I've just heard enough stories - I have enough friends who've been hit by taxicabs and things.

Reporters are faced with the daily choice of painstakingly researching stories or writing whatever people tell them. Both approaches pay the same.

I think shows that have more of a narrative and are about what's going to happen next, those need to wrap up as a complete story. But it's weird when a goofy comedy show needs to end.

It's weird. People want you to know that they write. They want you to know they're a musician, rather than making music or making stories. It's the strangest thing.

Only cool people care about the origin stories of why they like something, and I'm not cool.

Journalists are getting big stories wrong, over and over again.

The problem the cable channels have is they have to fill 24 hours. That's a terrible thing. We only do that on the biggest stories. The thing is there has happened to be a lot o

It's like tabloid news programs that talk about how horrible something is, while at the same time they're glorifying it as their top story.

Jordie Bellaire knows how to tell a story with color.

Having that North Star for every story [about Batman] is really key for me. It allows me to go farther and farther off the reservation.

It seems like everyone's got an agenda, and the agenda seems to be selling magazines or air time with sensational stories.

Once you told yourself a story enough times, it was so easy to keep on believing it.

If you see everything through hovercams and feed stories, you wind up blind to what's right in front of you.

Comics can do any kind of story. It's words and pictures, the only things it can't do are sing and dance.

I can't say L'Etranger influenced me to write, but for the first time I considered the possibility of telling a story that resembled my own experiences in my own voice.

I get stage fright with short stories. For me it feels like standup comedy: kill or die. I'm more confident when I begin a novel because I know I have space to fail.

I will do almost anything for the sake of a joke or for the sake of someone's real belief in something to help tell a story.

I'm sorry to burden you,' she said. She felt like a crybaby. 'What can we do with our stories,' he said, 'but tell them?

Newspaper reporting is really storytelling. We call our articles 'stories,' and we try to tell them in a way that even people who don't know all the background can understand them.

I have always loved horror very much. I used to write stories for DC's House of Mystery. It was one of my first jobs writing for comics, and I loved it.

I'd love to do a whole series of stories and have them collected into books.

The Western, when I do one, will be one long, continuous story.

The reason I love comics more than anything else is that the longest story will be just a few pages. With a novel, it takes so many pages to get to one thing happening.

There was also the myth of the western films. But my films are borrowed not from the story of the West in America but from the story of cinema.

I've tried to consider stories that I have read, making them into films, but they would turn out unnatural. If a producer wants that, he should call other people. Not me.

Either you’re going to tell stories that spread, or you will become irrelevant.

Whatever kind of story you're telling, whether it's a genre piece for a comic book or whatever it is, it has importance because it's all a metaphor for the existence of our being.

I just think, as a species, what we [people] enjoy most is creation and creativity, and telling stories is an extension of expressing all the thoughts and ideas that we have inside of ourselves.

Living and breathing an authentic story is the best way to survive in a conversation-rich world.

Marketing tells a story that spreads. Sales overcomes the natural resistance to say yes.

I think art is the ability to change people with your work, to see things as they are and then create stories, images, and interactions that change the marketplace.

All Marketers are liars tell stories.

Your positions on EVERYTHING are based on the story you tell yourself and not some universal fact from the universal fact database.

I like to approach comedy from character, to have the stakes for the individuals in the story be very high.

I'm really interested in stories about identity - who I am now versus who I used to be.

Like Toy Story, the joke is all about exploring the secret world of these various everyday objects.

I believe young female directors in particular should always remind themselves of the truths of their own stories and not let outsiders influence the authenticity of their films.

I always find it fun to read a script and then find the messages in the script because I believe every story has them.

My favorite films are the ones that I walk away from and I know I saw a story.

I think I'll always want to write and direct. I'm interested in producing and helping other people tell stories. But I'm still in love with writing and directing.

I hate even the idea of a synopsis. When stories are really working, when you're providing subtextual exploration and things that are deeply layered, you're obligated to not say things out loud.