Stories Quotes

Why has Scandinavia been producing such good thrillers? Maybe because their filmmakers can't afford millions for CGI and must rely on cheaper elements like, you know, stories and characters.

And what it depends on, of course, is whether the story itself is worth the ethical compromise it requires and whether the competition is onto the story.

But again, I put in my time with Marvel and DC so there was that period of my life of trying to learn how to draw and tell stories in a proper fashion.

Yes, of course my father harmed and caused a lot of damage but both stories are true. He did things to help and destroy Colombia, both are true.

A feature film is an expansion of budget, stress, story, hours, time, workload, everything.

Some of those stories in local newspapers are just as dull and boring as the stories that I get from on-line services, which are basically sort of straight news.

I never set out to make any statements about a specific character, I just set out to tell what feels like is a truthful story, a person that you and I might truly encounter.

Stories help me. To live. To work. To find the meaning hidden in every dream, ever leaf, every drop of dew.

I don't think I can tell any stories about how I lived in a van in Alaska. I grew up in the suburbs, I even had my own room. We weren't poor. Everything was very normal.

You tried to hide between the lines of a story never told.

You break the story first, and then you go into the specifics.

The trend today is vampires, zombies, angels, all the stuff that puts me right to sleep. It's too bad because it's so much less interesting than the diversity of stories you can tell with science.

The strength of a story is the truth you find in it.

It is sad that some people in the media like to create stories to sell their media, without any real facts to back up their stories.

We need to celebrate stories by women, for women, as just one more way to redress gender injustice.

So many stories are determined before they start.

Well, I had nightmares when I was doing the Klan story all the time. I had a recurring nightmare of basically being exposed as a Jew inside the Klan compound.

As an actor, you tell part of a story. As a writer, you get more of telling that story. But as a director, they're seeing the world through your eyes.

My life is a story about who God is and what He does in a human heart.

Turn the page, continue reading, and let the next story begin.

Among the reasons people keep sad stories to themselves is that they do not want anyone to feel sorry for them.

Lord of the Rings is a good thing for us because it opened the door for the genre in general. Ursula Le Guin's stories are very different from Lord of the Rings.

I am grieved that these continuing stories are everyday matters swept away.

The stories that spread today empower us and give us belief in our own heroic potential.

I like to make money, I like to have nice things. But I love to act, I love to tell stories.

As a journalist, it is so easy to get hardened when you see so many stories that are disturbing. Sometimes it's just your survival mechanism that makes you hardened to some of it.

Generally, Hollywood makes the same stories over and over. I've never wanted to do the same thing twice. If a script doesn't surprise me in some way, I simply can't commit to the project.

The healing that can grow out of the simple act of telling our stories is often quite remarkable.

I am also working on a couple of short stories for anthologies. This is new to me and Im enjoying it.

It is true that I visualize music and, as I visualize music, I have some sort of story running in my head, all the time.

I have decided that I want animation to be taken seriously; that is the goal of my life. I believe that animation is a very important medium to tell stories, not just for kids but for adults.

A shot is only as every as good as how well it tells the story.

I enjoyed [Celebrity Ghost Stories]. I never thought in a million years that I would tell people that I saw a ghost. And I've seen a lot of ghosts.

Never ask for someone's thoughts on autism unless you are prepared to hear a story that doesn't resemble your own.

If everything goes right, we get a good experience. If everything goes wrong, we get a good story.

A good leader shares information, even if they don't know the whole story. Without any information, people create their own, which causes fear and paranoia.

Poe was the first writer to write about main characters who were bad guys or who were mad guys, and those are some of my favorite stories.

Not everyone has a sob story, Charlie, and even if they do, it's no excuse.

The business of the church is to tell and embody a story

I believe there's a landscape that exists underneath everything that we can see in present-day stuff. And I think that makes life kind of a detective story.

There is nobody so weak of invention that cannot make some little stories to villify his enemy.

When you write a story, you’re telling yourself the story,” he said. “When you rewrite, your main job is taking out all the things that are not the story.

Story is honorable and trustworthy; plot is shifty, and best kept under house arrest.

There's nothing like stories on a windy night when folks have found a warm place in a cold world.

[M]yths are not invented as stories are. Myths are inspired-they really are. They come from the same realm that dream comes from.

I like movies about people and movies with characters; that's what I'm drawn to as a person who likes to create these characters within the story, but I like it all, really.

The fact that the Antarctica is beginning to look more like it's part of the story, as well.

The best scary movies have great humor in them and a great story.

we need ghost stories because we, in fact, are the ghosts.

When I was a little kid, I told stories.