Stories Quotes
The job of a storyteller is to tell stories, and I have concentrated on that obligation.
When I was growing up, my mom told me every story that was happening to her. Most of the stories that come to me are through a female voice in my head. My stories seem to naturally be about females.
This is a classic story of the friendship between humans and cats. Yes. I got in a lie right from the start!
The mountains themselves call us into greater stories.
I have my own story, and I love my story, but I know I can't tell it alone, not now. Because stories have centers, but they don't have edges. No boundaries.
I've heard that story about kids are high naturally, but I've seen kids that aren't high, kids who've had the high taken out of them.
I love hearing stories, telling stories, sharing stories. I've shared 37,000 on the Oprah show! Every day I was like the town crier.
In all the history of the boxing game, you'll find no human interest story to compare with the life narrative of James J. Braddock.
Do not ever let anyone make you feel like you don't matter, or like you don't have a place in our American story - because you do.
The camera is an extension of yourself... Your story treatment may be subjective, but it is important to remain objective as to truth.
In short stories it is better to say not enough than to say too much, because, because--I don't know why.
If you can't write like New York, you have no business living in New York and making New York the locale of your stories.
We aren't natural statisticians. What we are is natural storytelling machines. And so what we do after we have the facts in hand is build a story to explain the facts.
When I first went to New York I was right out of high school, I was 17 years old, and I had never seen a building over two stories high.
As a historian, what I trust is my ability to take a mass of information and tell a story shaped around it.
I've written original material before, where I've come up with the idea and the characters myself, and that's definitely very different to working with someone else's characters and stories.
It was one of those fine little love stories that can make you smile in your sleep at night.
If you're gonna let the character be the story, you better set a tone that allows the actors to do the best work they can do.
When I was a boy, unconsciously, spontaneously I learned the art of telling ironic stories.
The semi-colon is a burp, a hiccup. It's a drunk staggering out of the saloon at 2 a.m., grabbing your lapels on the way and asking you to listen to one more story.
All stories teach us something, and promise us something, whether they're true or invented, legend or fact.
If the story's there for it, if there's a reason for it, then I'm all for it. But if you throw in a barbed wire match just to do a barbed wire match, then it makes no sense to me.
Story of O is a fairy tale for another world, a world where some part of me lived for a long time, a world that no longer exists except between the covers of a book.
I love talking to people and hearing their stories. Everyone's got their own story to tell, and when you sit down with someone and really talk to them, you can learn so much.
There are many ways of breaking a heart. Stories were full of hearts broken by love, but what really broke a heart was taking away its dream -- whatever that dream might be.
When a bunch of stuff is happening on set, you have to remember the grander purpose: you're telling a story, so you have to get to that moment, and that takes supreme focus.
I am a storyteller, and I grew up with a father who told big-fish stories, so storytelling is very much a part of me. It was a part of my family.
I didn't have any set idea of what kind of filmmaker I wanted to be. I knew I wanted to tell stories that meant something to me, but I never said I was going to be the weird, avant-garde guy.
I started as a songwriter and wanted to be like Leonard Cohen. I've always seen my stories as enlarged songs.
When it all boils down, its about embracing each others stories and maybe even finding that synergy to collaborate for the common good.
VeggieTales is something that, on paper, makes no sense at all. It is a series of children's videos where limbless, talking vegetables act out Bible stories. Try raising money with that pitch.
Great marketing is all about telling your story in such a way that it compels people to buy what you are selling.
The brain stays up all night telling stories while we sleep. We just call them dreams.
I'm usually trying to react to what the actors are coming up with. And then the environment, and then the story.
I have wandered many roads that I have never traveled; touched many things that my eyes have never seen. It is through stories that life is made, and through stories that life is saved.
I knew there was a story; once you find a dog with a fork through it, you know there's a story there.
I'd like to be taken in charge of as an actor, not to be abandoned with asinine dialogue and meaningless actions or stereotyped characters. I'd like to feel like I'm in a character driven story.
