Stories Quotes

I tend to be drawn more to people than pure story ideas.

I don't make unconventional stories; I don't make non-linear stories. I like linear storytelling a lot.

When I don't have a story to tell, I'm a terror to live with.

There's no better way to test a person than to put them in the middle of a war. That's clearly going to show what kind of a character you're telling a story about.

I'm certainly hoping that 3D gets to the point where people do not notice it because once they stop noticing it, it just becomes another tool and an aid to help tell a story.

I compose the frame literally with the camera. Unless it makes a story point.

Not every movie, in my opinion, should be in 3D. There are a lot of stories I wouldn't shoot in 3D. But, you know, there are movies that are perfect in 3D.

I love how you can shoot a movie in a month or two or three of four, and it's this encapsulated story that you box up and ship out into the world, and what it is, is what it is.

For some decades now, it seems, there has been a ukase in place in American journalism to the effect that Canada is entitled to one story per season.

Sometimes when there is action, we just tend to avoid those moments with music, and have music in a separate part that allows you to dream and to make your mind up on where you're at in the story.

You write one book and you're ready for fame and fortune. I don't know that people are spending the time and attention on learning how to write-which takes years. Everybody sees the success stories.

In a way, humans are not made of skin and bones as such, as we're made of stories.

People take what they need from the stories they hear. The tale is often wiser than the teller.

Telling a story of illness, one pulls a thread through a narrow opening flanked on one side by shame and the other by trivia.

Why, I wonder, should the popularity of a news story matter to me? Does it mean it's a good story or just a seductive one?

If Wes Anderson has a very strong cast, he can direct the minutia of that story and still manage to have something that lives and breathes.

The only story that seems worth writing is a cry, a shot, a scream. A story should break the reader's heart.

At the centre of every fairy tale lay a truth that gave the story its power

We are the only ones who can tell our stories because we are the only ones who have lived them.

SEEING BELIEVING what’s in front of you is not necessarily the entire story

There are definitely some stories worth telling and I think there's something to be said for telling your story.

I believe with an extreme story the closer you look the more horrifying it gets.

When AIDS was at its most brutal, frightening, my-God-what-are-we-going-to-do era, that was when vampire stories and stories about blood and trust swept the literary world.

Forget about writing to Penthouse. This one was going to be a story for their grandkids.

I try to look on the sunny side of life. If something dramatic happens to me, I always try to recount it as a comedy tale, rather than a victim's story.

Strength, strength for us. What we need is strength, who will give us strength? There are thousands to weaken us, and of stories we have had enough.

The following story is one which he related recently regarding the practice of fault - finding among creeds: A frog lived in a well. It had lived there for a long time. . . .

What I really want to do is produce. There isn’t much patience with a slow developing story line anymore.

Theatre is the principal job of an actor. An actor's job is to tell a story to someone in a room. TV and film can be great and I really love doing it, but it is a different way of telling a story.

Study people's success stories hard. Study their failures even harder.

When a story captures me, it comes quickly and easily.

I think for some reason people are drawn to stories of all kinds, for some reason they land harder when they are "true." And yet in fiction, I think there is a lot of deeper truth, too.

James Leininger's story is the most compelling evidence so far for reincarnation.

One of the problems I have with many writers is their stories are all somewhat similar. They might be very good, but they're always on the same turf. I don't have those limitations.

They [my stories] evolve. If they're tightly constructed, it's because they're revised constantly as I move forward each day. That's where the structure inheres. It's all organic.

Basically for me a story can be anything. Anything you tell me, anything I read in the newspaper, in any mode. I don't have any restrictions.

If the breaking news story had to do with hard news, politics specifically, I had a lot to do with it. If it had to do with music, Kurt Loder was more involved.

Online, you have things like Slate Magazine, which has a lot of commentary and analysis of stories, so it gives you a fuller picture. I would compare that to a news magazine or the New Republic.

So we face our final hours...and all that was once certain has become uncertain. Except for defeat. That, as always, is the end of all our stories.

Stories are not like the real world; they aren't held back by what we know is false or true. What's important is how a story makes you feel inside.

I have to keep reminding myself that I was hired for a reason and one of those reasons is because of the stories I tell and the films I've made previously.

As a child, I loved story books and wanted to be in them so desperately and live the stories.

Reaching deep into the heart of the reader, Cindy Woodsmall pens a beautifully lyrical story in her debut novel When the Heart Cries.

Braxton Cosby's stories feel personal and well thought-out. I'm happy to welcome this entertaining writer to the YA science fiction field. I look forward to more of his work!

Stories can be a jumping-off point to access the emotions and the sensations in the body.

I'm always talking to the writers because I find it so fascinating, how they're able to go to these different levels with the different stories, and have all these layers to peel back.

I love to hear stories about people who got to places where they are today. Those kinds of things are very interesting to me.

I'm always interested in are stories that challenge people.

I try to get roles that challenge me in what I can do and who I think I can portray. For me, it's about creating characters with really fascinating stories, because that's what I like to watch on TV.

I don't want to deal with big, grand themes in my stories; art has nothing to do with themes. When you deal with themes, you are not creating; you are lecturing.