Stories Quotes
The romance of movies is not just in those stories and those people on the screen but in the adolescent dream of meeting others who feel as you do about what you’ve seen.
Once I've discovered the story, I might restructure it, maybe move things around, set up a clue that something is going to happen later, but that happens much later in an editorial capacity.
It can certainly happen that characters in more sophisticated stories can "take over" as they develop and change the author's original ideas. Well, it certainly happens to me at times.
I guess you can stay sort of true to the story; you don't have to artificially bring the character back from whatever doom you've designed for them, you can tell the story, I suppose, honestly.
I think that there isn't a photograph in the world that has any narrative ability... They do not tell stories - they show you what something looks like. To a camera.
I don't have a plan for a story when I sit down to write. I would get quite bored carrying it out.
There's a lot of thievery involved in writing. You're breaking into other people's spaces and other people's stories.
My love is for acting not money, so I only take on roles that I find challenging, in stories I find interesting.
Conservative talk radio works because there are lots of conservatives who are convinced that they are not getting the whole story from the regular media.
My story is important not because it is mine, God knows, but because if I tell it anything like right, the chances are you will recognize that in many ways it is also yours.
I used to go over to my friend's house and we'd watch VCR tapes, three of them a day, and I was like, "I could come up with better stories than this." And I've wanted to write films ever since.
Some people focus more on sonics. Some people focus more on story. I focus on both sonics and story.
If you follow the trail of your own enthusiastically repeated stories, you will begin to rediscover the things that invigorate and enliven you.
If I told you the whole story it would never end...What's happened to me has happened to a thousand woman.
If I had quietly retired as governor in 2007 and went into banking or something of that nature, I would have been, at most, a footnote in the story and probably never mentioned.
Batman and Superman are very different characters but they're both iconic and elemental. Finding the right story for them both is the key.
I wanted you to thank you for being my friend and letting me play a part in your story.
As a filmmaker, you have to understand the essence of the book and tell the story you want to see on the screen, and hopefully please yourself - because you cant possibly please everyone.
One of my favorite things to do is to craft and to write songs and tell stories, and another thing is to really just flip out basically, and release kind of my unruly energies.
The happy story right now is the full page in Vanity Fair, which gives me a great deal of exposure.
I try to tell a story the way someone would tell you a story in a bar, with the same kind of timing and pacing.
You hear the best stories from ordinary people. That sense of immediacy is more real to me than a lot of writerly, literary-type crafted stories. I want that immediacy when I read a novel.
My stories are very compact. I want them to say the most complex things in the simplest way.
I HATED the Salinger story. It took me days to go through it, gingerly, a page at a time, and blushing with embarrassment for him every ridiculous sentence of the way. How can they let him do it?
I wrote a lot of poetry that was based on stories of the sea and I was really inspired by that.
As the decades go by, a painter's life becomes a life lived with oil paint, a story told in the thicknesses of oil. Any history of painting that does not take that obsession seriously is incomplete.
The dead and past stories that I have told again in divers fashions, are not set down without authority.
I don't have a story about an epiphany in which I suddenly realised I wanted to be an actor. It was much more a case of the idea dawning on me gradually.
I've seen many films and read lots of thrillers - and I'm always disappointed that I can guess the story before the other viewers.
When readers close the covers on Running the Rift, I want them to understand that it is not a genocide novel but rather a story of hope and rebirth.
You'll lose your reader if you are vague, not clear, and not present. We love details, personal connections, stories.
You are born with a character; it is given, a gift, as the old stories say, from the guardians upon your birth...Each person enters the world called.
I always choose my projects for the script or what the director want to tell with that story. And if I like the story.
As a journalist, my job is to be dispassionate. Suddenly to be the centre of a story and to be crying, it made me feel very insecure.
Art often reflects what's going on in the world, and we're seeing stories that are very diverse and that are lead and made by women because that's what's in our world.
