Stories Quotes
It's cool to see everybody come together and do their own thing, but there's never been any drama. I never saw any on the X-Men set, and I never saw any on the Horror Story set.
all stories are like those about the creation of the universe, no one was there, no one witnessed anything, yet everyone knows what happened.
Whether it's on top of a phone booth or a $200 million soundstage, it's about stories.
We need art. We've been telling stories since the beginning. As human beings, we need it for our survival.
War all comes down to these little tiny stories about people's lives that will never be the same.
I always wanted to do a story on the blues that not only reflected its nature and its content, but also alludes to the form itself…In short, a story that gives you the impression of the blues.
I fall in love with almost every person I photograph. I want to hear their stories. I want to get close. This is personal for me.
If you have distance from the events, then your story can work as an analogy or parable, rather than its literal narrative.
I think statistics go in one ear and out the other. All of us respond to stories more than numbers.
It's different if you're a painter. You can hidethe ones that don't work. You can't do that with movies. They tellthe story of who you are at the time, and that's the wonderful thingabout it.
I have a reputation for doing superheroes, but I like all kinds of writing. In fact, hardly anybody knows this, but I've probably written as many humor stories as superhero stories.
I like to write adventure stories; that's what I tell myself. But you can't help letting your own personality, your own experiences, slip through.
I think the way you become a good storyteller is to read a lot of stories and evaluate them in your own mind.
I am excited to work with NBC News to continue to highlight stories of organizations and individuals who make their communities and our world healthier, more just and more humane.
You're trying to bring a character to an audience, and tell stories. That's what we're all trying do.
I know it's such a boring interview sometimes with us at 'American Horror Story', but I just can't say a word. I would certainly love to be back, that's for sure. It's such a great job.
The funny thing is, whenever I'm working on something, I kind of forget there's a lot of people watching. It makes it easier to be in the moment and to tell a story as well as possible.
No story sits by itself, Sometimes stories meet at corners and sometimes they cover one another completely, like stones beneath a river.
I want to try new creative things and find refreshing stories. That's how I've come to choose the roles that I've done.
Just like any woman,...we weave our stories out of our bodies. Some of us through our children, or our art; some do it just by living. It's all the same.
The best songs are stories, and the best singers storytellers. Great singers can make you care about what they're feeling. You have a sense of knowing them.
Over the years, many in the public have become numb to news of financial corruption, partly because too many of these stories involve banker-on-banker crime.
How useful are documentary photographs if there is no follow up, no way of knowing what happened next in the story?
No, the thing is, we all love storytelling, and as a writer you get to tell stories all the time.
It's only afterwards that it becomes anything like a story at all. When you're telling it, to yourself or to someone else.
After all, the nation is not just an entity. It's a story. It's a story of what's salient, what brought us together, what we are willing to live and die for.
More than simply capturing brief moments in time, MixBit helps people bring stories to life.
It's so pretentious, but I believe that with comedy, if you have a good story, 90% of it is casting. Once you get the guys and gals in there, it's pretty easy to make a funny movie.
I made 'Saving Private Ryan' for my father. He's the one who filled my head with war stories when I was growing up.
After writing a story I was always empty and both sad and happy, as though I had made love.
I don't have a great eye for detail. I leave blanks in all of my stories. I leave out all detail, which leaves the reader to fill in something better.
I still read Hemingway. I still read his short stories because they're so good. He doesn't waste any words.
The only reason to buy a paper book any longer is to own it and cherish it and remember it and tell a story about it.
The more original a short-story writer, the odder looking the assortment of things he or she puts together for a story.
I still feel, as I did when I was six or seven, that books are simply the best way to experience a story.
The first paragraph. The last paragraph. That's where the story is going and how it's going to end. Or else you'll go off in a hundred different directions.
