Stories Quotes

Films are artifice. We're telling stories on film. At the same time, when it works, there is a real tough immediacy and spontaneity to it, and a punch.

Isn't any friendship a love story?

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.

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.

I don't really think in terms of genre, I think in terms of story and character.

Let go of your story so the Universe can write a new one for you.

I wanted you to thank you for being my friend and letting me play a part in your story.

Batman and Superman are very different characters but they're both iconic and elemental. Finding the right story for them both is the key.

An adventure story is fear recalled in comfort.

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.

The weirdest love stories are always the best.

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.

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.

Sometimes a book is better than it ever had a right to be because of the history the reader brings to the reading and because of the methods educators use to bring a particular story alive.

It is a good idea to know which publishers publish which stories. For example, there is no sense in sending a picture book text to a publisher who does not publish picture books.

There are things the story must have or else look incomplete. And these will almost automatically present themselves. When they don't, you are in trouble and then the novel stops.

We have heard stories about white men who make the powerful guns and the strong drinks and took slaves away across the seas, but no one thought the stories were true.

When I began going to school and learned to read, I encountered stories of other people and other lands.

It is the story that owns and directs us. It is the thing that makes us different from cattle; it is the mark on the face that sets one people apart from their neighbors.

I'm only interested in rites of passage stories.

Fear, to a great extent, is born of a story we tell ourselves.

It's just so much fun to make up characters, situations, and everything else about a story. I have so much freedom and flexibility to do whatever I want.

I kind of like that romantic image of being in a rocker with my family gathered around, all these generations in one room, listening intently to my stories.

My whole life story is kind of a backhanded compliment.

Hopefully, other successes aren't like me. It carries much more meaning to other people; my success story is irrelevant. It doesn't make any sense.

I was well traveled, and I created this illusion of literacy through reading and writing. I wrote a book of short stories.

When you are in your teenage years you are consciously experiencing everything for the first time, so adolescent stories are all beginnings. There are never any endings.

I like good stories above all else... and kickin' art really goes the final stretch to ensure a comic is good.

Fairy tales to me are never happy, sweet stories. They're moral stories about overcoming the dark side and the bad.

I would say try to tell stories that you care about as opposed to stories that you think will sell.

He wants to put his story next to hers.

I try to tell the story about the song with the believability that I've lived it myself and I understand what it's all about.

I always try to make the setting fit the story I have in mind.

Many great horror stories are period pieces and English actors have a facility for historic characters.

Whats great about Freddy in this is when he gets to comment and manipulate the back stories and the fears of the characters - especially with Jason.

The telling of stories creates the real world.

When you're a story teller, you work out everything. You work out who these people are, what's going to be happening. The environment in which they live.

When shooting a story about someone, their hands should always be on your list to shoot.

You don't realize how little accuracy there is in network TV reporting until they cover a story in your hometown.

It's annoying to be disapproved of by people who know only half the story, especially when you're not sure which half they know.

We build our lives in moments, and even the ones we can't remember become the story of who we are.

I have dictated stories from an airport after writing the story out in longhand on the plane that I got from phone interviews and then was applauded by editors for 'working magic.

I like stories that are not normal, everyday lives. I don't personally seek them out, but they find me.

I've heard so many stories of young girls watching the Olympics and being inspired by it, and they want to do it now, and that's really cool.

Each time I told my story, I lost a bit, the smallest drop of pain.

We are surrounded by story.

My key interest in choosing scripts is character-driven stories, because there are so many stories that sacrifice character for plot.

Stories are the only thing that I can be bothered with. Its the only way that I can do anything, even if Im quite useless. Its the only area in being human where I could be a little useful.

I've gone through a lot of stuff in my life so far. There are stories I haven't really been able to tell.

The way that a handful of corporations in Los Angeles dictate how our stories are told creates a real poverty of imagination and it's a big problem.